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Public Culture

An interdisciplinary journal of transnational cultural studies

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Recent Issues

  • Volume 21, Number 2

    Volume 21, Number 2

    Spring 2009

    Beatriz Jaguaribe interviews photographer Rogério Reis; Caitlin Zaloom speculates about the role of financial affect in reasoning about the future through the U.S. Treasury yield curve; Daniel Monterescu trespasses the gated community in a critique of ethnogentrification in Jaffa, Israel; Michael Ralph navigates black politics in the wake of Hurricane Katrina; and more…

  • Volume 21, Number 1

    Volume 21, Number 1

    Winter 2009

    Gary Wilder discusses Aimé Césaire’s untimely political vision of decolonization without national independence; Adam Ashforth examines Kalenjin ethnonationalism in the light of the recent postelection violence in Kenya; Michel Feher speculates about the contours of a neoliberal condition and the merits of embracing it; and more…

  • Volume 20, Number 3

    Volume 20, Number 3

    Fall 2008

    Todd Meyers and Stefanos Geroulanos present a translation of Georges Canguilhem’s essay on the concept of health and its philosophical ground; Stathis Gourgouris and Saba Mahmood debate secularism and and critique; Alex Vasudevan explores concepts of capital and spectacle through a dossier of commentaries examining RETORT’s Afflicted Powers; and more…

  • Volume 20, Number 2

    Volume 20, Number 2

    Spring 2008

    Rosalind Morris scrutinizes the rise of an actuarial unconscious in the space of South Africa’s HIV/AIDS epidemic; Rafael Sánchez surveys the mystical foundation of Pentecostal squatting in Caracas; Partha Chatterjee considers the role of disciplines in popular artistic production; and more…

About the Journal

Public Culture is a reviewed interdisciplinary journal of cultural studies, published three times a year in Fall, Winter, and Spring for the Society for Transnational Cultural Studies by Duke University Press. The journal's full archives are available online at Dukejournals.org.

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