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Published: 01 January 2023
FIGURE 22 Cartoon featuring a protester writing democracy slogans on the pavement: “But I'm just writing about the Democracy that you uncles respect. Why do you want to destroy [my sign]?” Courtesy of Phoesi Gwa. More
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (1): 149–186.
Published: 01 January 2010
... to any words in Hindi, Sanskrit, or Marathi, since most of the words and names are familiar to scholars of South Asia. Country First? Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883–1966) and the Writing of Essentials of Hindutva...
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Public Culture (1990) 3 (1): 49–66.
Published: 01 January 1990
.... That this should not be a written document but a visual one. That one should write about film in film. That words are an especially difficult (impossible?) way of talking about film, with- out boring people to tears over details of plot and analyses of film language. That it will be necessary...
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Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 621–625.
Published: 01 September 1993
...Meena Alexander Copyright © 1993 by The University of Chicago 1993 Piecemeal Shelter: Writing, Ethnicity, Violence Meenu Alexander F or many years now, I have been haunted by the sense that the act of writing...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (1): 239–273.
Published: 01 January 2002
... of Self-Writing Achille Mbembe translated by Steven Rendall The only subjectivity is time. . . . Gilles Deleuze, Cinéma 2: L’image-temps ver the past two...
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Public Culture (2003) 15 (2): 261–286.
Published: 01 May 2003
... ” ( English Academy Review , December 1999), “The Island Writes Back: Discourse/Power and Marginality in Wole Soyinka's The Swamp Dwellers , Derek Walcott's The Sea at Dauphin , and Athol Fugard's The Island ”( Research in African Literatures , winter 2001), and “Mapping the Land/Body/Subject: Colo- nial...
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (3): 347–372.
Published: 01 September 2004
... Studies (2000); editor of Beautiful-Ugly: African and Diaspora Aesthetics (2004); and is finalizing a book of essays on South African literature and culture. Writing the World from an African Metropolis...
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Public Culture (1994) 6 (2): 411–418.
Published: 01 May 1994
...Wu Hung Copyright © 1994 by The University of Chicago 1994 A “Ghost Rebellion”: Notes on Xu Bing’s “Nonsense Writing” and Other Works Wu Hung X u Bing’s Tian shu is well...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (1 (75)): 7–19.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Carlo Rotella Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s problem was how to force his way against the grain of history into big- time celebrity in an era when being the best boxer in the world no longer automatically qualified him for the A- list. My problem was how to write a magazine profile about a subject who...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (1 (78)): 161–186.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Stefan Tanaka This essay calls for historians to move beyond chronological time in the writing and understanding of history. It first shows that chronology and modern history are historical, not natural, and then offers some simple correctives, such as recognizing different timescales and writing...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (3 (65)): 493–504.
Published: 01 September 2011
... social networking sites—as to individuals themselves. This article discusses the role of circulation in understanding the Egyptian popular uprising. It focuses on the literary work of a young generation of Egyptians whose writings from the past several years—and comments on the January 25 movement...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (3 (83)): 481–492.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Harel Shapira Harel Shapira interviews Arlie Hochschild about her recent book Strangers in Their Own Land . They discuss the contemporary right wing—who they are, what they believe, and how we can and should study and write about them. References Haidt Jonathan . 2012 . The Righteous...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (1): 117–144.
Published: 01 January 2019
... the meaning of citizenship in auditory terms. Administrators and broadcasters at AIR, however, assumed that citizen-listeners would be docile. Radio listeners proved the opposite. They protested against AIR’s music broadcasts by writing to magazine and newspaper editorials and by tuning their dials to foreign...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 77–106.
Published: 01 January 2020
..., producing moments of being that potentially enable to feel and act otherwise. Considering the management of subjectivity in its own right rather than as mere echoes of postsocialist governmentalities, the authors sustain a dialogue with recent writing on the production of happy and self-reliant marginalized...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (1 (96)): 99–121.
Published: 01 January 2022
... and economic agreements that have defined the city's governance since handover. The analysis of the protests, and of the history leading up to them, is informed by writings on democracy and space by Chantal Mouffe and Doreen Massey, and considers the work of activists, researchers, and journalists whose voices...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (2 (100)): 191–206.
Published: 01 May 2023
... and irreverence are coupled with deep conviction and (sometimes deadly) serious action. Writing as a multidisciplinary collective, the authors have witnessed irony playing a crucial role in diverse social movements — from BlackLivesMatter activists in Ghana, to post‐crash political imaginaries in Greece...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (2 (100)): 233–254.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Elana Resnick Abstract This essay rethinks writing on “intimate labor” to ethnographically explore the intimacy of labor by attending to how Romani women waste workers in Bulgaria assert workplace friendships to lay claim to public space and cultivate life‐sustaining solidarities. Under conditions...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (1): 33–65.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Nouri Gana Theodor W. Adorno's by now infamous dictum that “to write lyric poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric” still weighs heavily on various modern and contemporary representations of war and violence, especially in the Arab world, where the legacy of the Holocaust, entangled with differing...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (3): 577–598.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Claudia K. Grinnell Less than ten years after going mainstream, the Web returns to its roots as a read/write tool while entering a new, more social and participatory phase (Web 2.0) where the consumer's role morphs into that of “produser.” Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press 2009...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (2): 369–397.
Published: 01 May 2010
...James Tweedie Using contemporary Chinese and Hong Kong cinema, the large body of writing on media emanating from Koolhaas and his atelier, and the headquarters for China Central Television as its primary touchstones, this essay examines the relationship between the current media environment in East...