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Public Culture

An interdisciplinary journal of transnational cultural studies

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Special Issues

  • Volume 23, Number 1

    Volume 23, Number 1:

    Winter 2011

    Special issue on "Racial France"—Janet Roitman, Guest Editor; Essays by Jean-François Bayart, Achille Mbembe, and Ann Laura Stoler; Commentaries by Robert J. C. Young, Marnia Lazreg, Ranjana Khanna, Sandrine Bertaux, and Emilienne Baneth-Nouailhetas

  • Volume 20, Number 1

    Volume 20, Number 1:

    Winter 2008

    Neeladri Battacharya delves into the politics of secular history in India; Faisal Devji considers the recent crisis at the Red Mosque in Islamabad; Deborah Posel explores the centrality of confession, and its relationship to victimhood, in South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; and more…

  • Volume 19, Number 1

    Volume 19, Number 1:

    Winter 2007

    Dipesh Chakrabarty investigates the idea of the political in the context of postcolonial India; Carlos Forment examines the relationship between football clubs and the 2003 municipal elections in Buenos Aires; Charles Taylor considers the consequences of expressive individualism for our notions of political efficacy; Lisa Wedeen examines qāt chew gatherings as a form of public sphere practice in Yemen; and more…

  • Volume 17, Number 2

    Volume 17, Number 2:

    Spring 2005

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 Institute for Public Knowledge by Duke University Press. The journal's full archives are available online at Dukejournals.org.

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