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| Public Culture | |
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| Discipline | Cultural Studies |
| Language | English |
| Publication details | |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (United States of America) |
| Publication history | 1988 - present |
| Frequency | Three issues annually |
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| ISSN | 0899-2363 |
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Public Culture is a reviewed interdisciplinary journal of transnational cultural studies, founded in 1988 by anthropologists Carol Breckenridge and Arjun Appadurai. By its own account, the journal seeks to address “the cultural transformations associated with cities, media and consumption, and the cultural flows that draw cities, societies and states into larger transnational relationships and global political economies”. Among recent contributors are Brian T. Edwards, David Novak, Isabel Hofmeyr, Leela Gandhi, Achille Mbembe, Robert J. C. Young, and Agnieszka Graff.
Public Culture is currently edited at New York University and published for the Institute for Public Knowledge by Duke University Press. Initially based at the University of Pennsylvania and published independently, in 1992 the journal moved to the University of Chicago, first under the editorship of Carol Breckenridge, later under Elizabeth Povinelli. In 2004, the journal moved from Chicago to New York to accompany its editor, Claudio Lomnitz, based first at The New School and then, from 2006, at Columbia University. Under Lomnitz and Executive Editor Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Public Culture underwent a complete redesign and implemented three new regular sections: “Doxa at Large,” a space for shorter opinion pieces on recent events; “Arts in Circulation,” featuring reflections on innovative cultural work and on the work of art in public; and “Sites of Knowledge,” focusing on institutions that have made a significant mark on a world region.
In 2010 the journal welcomed a new editor, Eric Klinenberg, a professor of sociology at New York University, and his new editorial committee consisting of senior editors John Jackson, Andrew Lakoff, Fred Turner and Caitlin Zaloom, and the following editorial committee members: Craig Calhoun, Nadia Abu El-Haj, Manu Goswami, Greg Grandin, Bruce Grant, Johan Lindquist, Eyal Press, Erica Robles, Ananya Roy, Marita Sturken and Guobin Yang. While the journal will remain basically the same, the new editor mentions several changes that it will undergo in his first editorial letter from the Fall 2011 issue, including "some important substantive and stylistic changes in the journal, all intended to widen the reach and increase the accessibility of the work we publish,"[1] as well as the implementation of Public Books, an online book review.
The journal has received recognition from several sources, including an award for the Best New Journal in 1992[2] and for Best Special issue in 2000[3] from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals Awards, as well as a favorable review in the Times Literary Supplement.[4]
[edit] Public Books
In the spring of 2012, Public Culture plans to launch Public Books: “a new web-exclusive section devoted to real-time debate about serious non-fiction books, literary fiction, and emergent cultural trends as evidenced in current media and the arts, including digital arts.” In late fall 2011 the staff of Public Culture invited three design teams to submit preliminary proposals in a web-design “charrette,” and hosted a public event where editorial staff, guest critics, designers, and members of the general public discussed and debated the design of the site;[5] discussion of the three designs took place online as well.[6] Public Culture also released a preview of the content of the site, including essays by Jonathan Levy[7] and by Sharon Marcus.[8]
[edit] Notes
- ^ "“Editor's Letter” in Volume 23, Number 3 • Public Culture". Publicculture.org. http://www.publicculture.org/articles/view/23/3/editors-letter. Retrieved 2012-01-11.
- ^ "Best New Journal | The Council of Editors of Learned Journals". Celj.org. http://www.celj.org/best_new_journal. Retrieved 2012-01-11.
- ^ "Best Special Issue | The Council of Editors of Learned Journals". Celj.org. http://www.celj.org/best_special_issue. Retrieved 2012-01-11.
- ^ Danchev, Alex (3 November, 2006). "The Times Literary Supplement". http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/. Retrieved 2001-06-20-01-03.
- ^ "“PUBLIC BOOKS Web-Design Charrette | Presentation & Discussion | December 6, 2011 | 7:00 - 9:00 PM” • Public Culture". Publicculture.org. 2011-12-06. http://www.publicculture.org/news/view/public-books-web-design-charrette-. Retrieved 2012-01-11.
- ^ "“PUBLIC BOOKS Preview Discussion Page” • Public Culture". Publicculture.org. 2011-12-06. http://www.publicculture.org/news/view/public-books-preview-discussion-page. Retrieved 2012-01-11.
- ^ "“PUBLIC BOOKS: Jonathan Levy on the New Histories of Capitalism” • Public Culture". Publicculture.org. http://www.publicculture.org/news/view/public-books-jonathan-levy-on-the-new-histories-of-capitalism. Retrieved 2012-01-11.
- ^ "“PUBLIC BOOKS: Sharon Marcus on Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Marriage Plot” • Public Culture". Publicculture.org. 2011-12-06. http://www.publicculture.org/news/view/public-books-sharon-marcus-on-jeffrey-eugenides-s-the-marriage-plot. Retrieved 2012-01-11.
[edit] External links
- Public Culture web site
- Public Culture web page, from Duke University Press
