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An interdisciplinary journal of transnational cultural studies

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Volume 18, Number 1

Issue 48, Winter 2006

Editor’s Letter
Claudio Lomnitz

Doxa at Large

Benedict XVI
Charles Taylor
Islam Resetting the European Agenda?
Nilüfer Göle

Arts in Circulation

The Thing Itself
Arjun Appadurai

Sexualities, Ethics, Politics

Fourteen Sonnets for an Epidemic: Derek Jarman’s The Angelic Conversation
Candace Vogler
Abnormal, the “New Normal,” and Destabilizing Discourses of Rights
Susan Ruddick
The Rise and Fall of Sexual Politics in the Public Sphere: A Transatlantic Contrast
Éric Fassin

Anticapitalism, Xenophobia, Imperialism

History and Helplessness: Mass Mobilization and Contemporary Forms of Anticapitalism
Moishe Postone
Pim Fortuyn, Theo van Gogh, and the Politics of Tolerance in the Netherlands
Peter van der Veer
On Degrees of Imperial Sovereignty
Ann Laura Stoler

Photo-Essay

The Visual Archive of Colonialism: Germany and Namibia
Julia Hell and George Steinmetz

Present Re-Presented

Sounds of Freedom: Music, Taxis, and Racial Imagination in Urban South Africa
Thomas Blom Hansen
Figuring Crime: Quantifacts and the Production of the Un/Real
John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff

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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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