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Sponsored by the Society for Transnational Cultural Studies

For twenty years Public Culture has been publishing field-defining ethnographies and analyses of the cultural politics of globalization. Providing a forum for the internationalization of cultural studies, Public Culture essays have mapped the capital, human, and media flows drawing cities, peoples, and states into transnational relationships and political economies. Anthropologists, historians, sociologists, artists, and scholars of politics, literatures, architecture, and the arts have made groundbreaking contributions in its pages. With its essays and visual pieces, the journal increasingly shapes the way we talk about public cultures and globalization in a diasporic world. Public Culture's concern with transnationalism has shaped and been shaped by an international readership, and the journal is today the medium for conceptual and political discussion for an emerging international public sphere.

Public Culture is a three-time CELJ award-winning journal with an avid and forward-thinking multidisciplinary readership around the world.

Special issues include

"The Public Life of History" (20:1)
—Bain Attwood, Dipesh Chakrabarty, and Claudio Lomnitz, special issue editors

"Cultures of Democracy" (19:1)
—Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, special issue editor

Awarded Runner-up for 2005 Best Special Issue by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals
"100 Years of The Souls of Black Folks: A Celebration of W. E. B. Du Bois" (17:2)
—Robert Gooding-Williams and Dwight A. McBride, special issue editors

"Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis" (16:3)
—Achille Mbembe and Sarah Nuttall, special issue editors

"Technologies of Public Persuasion: An Accidental Issue" (15:3)
—Elizabeth A. Povinelli and Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, special issue editors

"Violence and Redemption" (15:1)
—Candace Vogler and Patchen Markell, special issue editors

"New Imaginaries" (14:1)
—Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar and Benjamin Lee, special issue editors

"The Critical Limits of Embodiment: Reflections on Disability Criticism" (13:3)
—Carol A. Breckenridge and Candace Vogler, special issue editors

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