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Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 331–348.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Keith Breckenridge Gandhi is conventionally viewed as a lifelong critic of Western modernity and colonial government. This essay shows that these views, which were famously expressed in Hind Swaraj , took form in his struggle against the Transvaal state between 1906 and 1908. Before that time...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (3 (65)): 493–504.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Brian T. Edwards Large-scale demonstrations during January and February 2011 forced the departure of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Many Western commentators represented these events as a digital revolution, attributing authorship as much to the technologies of the digital age—particularly...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (2 (82)): 333–361.
Published: 01 May 2017
... Western stereotypes about Muslims, on the one hand, and, on the other, to transmit as “preachers by proxy” correct and relevant religious knowledge to viewers when, at times, the Arab preachers they subtitle fail to do so. Translators feel authorized to contest through subtitles both external...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 299–319.
Published: 01 May 2011
... had given to the terrorists. For Gandhi, the Japanese example led in a militaristic and Westernizing direction. To this he counterposed his own model of peaceful resistance and idealized village life. Gandhi's critique of modernity needs to be understood within the context of this project, which...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 235–259.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Seçkin Sertdemir Özdemir; Nil Mutluer; Esra Özyürek Today thousands of academics from Turkey, along with others from Syria, Iran, and Egypt, are deserting their homeland in search of intellectual refuge in Western countries. These exiled academics practice diverse forms of teaching and researching...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (1 (93)): 115–128.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Arjun Appadurai Abstract The primary argument of this essay is that the modern Western museum form is a critical site in which to understand the five centuries in which Europe dominated much of the rest of the world. In this imperial epoch, the world was shrunk to the museum and the museum...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (1 (93)): 41–61.
Published: 01 January 2021
... reflects on how the conceptualization of sovereignty may change if one begins a global account of modern sovereignty not from the heart of Western Europe but from the complex arrangements of “distributed sovereignty” that emerged in the Indian Ocean and other colonized territories from the eighteenth...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (1 (93)): 89–111.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Emily Apter Abstract This article summarizes a broader project on “just translation” that attempts to rethink translation in the framework of Western philosophies of right, Sittlichkeit (ethical norms, customs, practices), and theories of justice (Plato, Hegel, Rawls), as well as of recent work...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 417–440.
Published: 01 September 2021
... to both de‐Westernize the methodological orientation known as media geology and offer a prehistory of contemporary rare earth mining in the Pacific Ocean. The feasibility of Japan's deep-sea mining in the vicinity of the Ogasawara Islands remains uncertain. But this uncertainty is also an opportunity...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 393–415.
Published: 01 September 2021
... forms of listening emerged in Western urban centers, newly attuned to sounds of warfare commingled with Islamic melodic devotionals ordered by state officials. Unique and pronounced engagements with bodily liquids accompanied the handling and placement of the dead. The multi‐sensory experiences...
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (3): 437–445.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Stathis Gourgouris Against simple antisecularist claims that secularism is to be equated with Western rationalism or with Christianity, or with colonialism tout court, I argue that an essential task of secular criticism (according to Edward Said's initial conception) is to conduct a double...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (2 (73)): 301–318.
Published: 01 May 2014
... affinities with environmentalist perspectives that attribute value, animatedness, and agency to the natural world. Such affinities emerge even in nonenvironmentalist animated films in the United States, Western Europe, and Japan. 2014 Long neglected as an object of serious study, animated film...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 165–190.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Kenny Cupers This article examines theories of human territoriality and their historical role in the demise of public housing in Western Europe and North America between the 1960s and the 1980s. The neglect and privatization of the public housing stock and the withdrawal of the state in direct...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (1): 143–171.
Published: 01 January 2018
... the core of banal security nationalism, characterized by its ubiquitous and taken-for-granted presence in daily life. This form of nationalism is punctuated by moments of hot nationalism that erupt in the wake of attacks perpetrated by Muslims in the United States and other Western countries. Together...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (1): 173–196.
Published: 01 January 2018
... of active audience participation in dancing dabke . Although universal humanity can be used cynically to demonstrate cultural othering to Western spectators or to diminish support to Palestinian national liberation, the article argues that Palestinian electro- dabke musicians capitalize on universal...
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Published: 01 January 2018
Figure 1 The terraces used to reach the mountaintops. At present, they only cover the lower valleys. Above the terraces, residents have planted China firs. Most of the higher parts have been taken over by nature. Whereas Qinghe’s residents detest this view, urbanites — both Chinese and Western
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (3): 545–556.
Published: 01 September 2002
... . Die Umbesetzer: Drei Eastside Stories aus dem Besetzermilieu zwischen Western und Gestern. Der Alltag , no. 72 : 109 -36. Veenis, Milena. 1999 . Consumption in East Germany: The seduction and betrayal of things. Journal of Material Culture 4 , no. 1: 79 -112. Verdery, Katherine. 1996...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (2): 361–386.
Published: 01 May 2002
... decades is the universalization of “gay rights.” This project has
appropriated the prevailing U.S. discourse on human rights in order to launch
itself on an international scale. Following in the footsteps of the white Western
women’s movement, which had sought to universalize its issues through...
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Public Culture (1999) 11 (1): 75–107.
Published: 01 January 1999
... has been written about Shanghai in Western languages, and the
corpus of “popular literature” that contributed to its legendary image bequeaths a
dubious legacy. For aside from perpetuating the city’s glamour and mystery, it
also succeeded in turning the name of the city into a debased verb...
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Public Culture (1992) 4 (2): 157–161.
Published: 01 May 1992
... often switch off the Doordarshan chan-
nel to watch Rambo or Raj Kapoor instead. Ted Turner’s CNN was the pioneer among
Western networks in the Asian market. On the eve of the Gulf War, CNN hired a
transponder on a Soviet satellite and even uplinked their war footage from a station...
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