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  1. Johannesburg

    Johannesburg

    The Elusive Metropolis

    Edited by Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe

    Series a Public Culture book

    Duke University Press Books

    Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis is a pioneering effort to insert South Africa’s largest city into urban theory, on its own terms. Johannesburg is Africa’s premier metropolis. Yet theories of urbanization have... Learn More
    Published: 24th October 2008
    Hardback | £80.00
    Paperback | £21.99
  2. Cosmopolitanism

    Cosmopolitanism

    Edited by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Homi K. Bhabha, Sheldon Pollock and Carol A. Breckenridge

    Series a Public Culture book

    Duke University Press Books

    As the final installment of Public Culture’s Millennial Quartet, Cosmopolitanism assesses the pasts and possible futures of cosmopolitanism—or ways of thinking, feeling, and acting beyond one’s particular society.... Learn More
    Published: 10th May 2002
    Hardback | £78.00
    Paperback | £19.99
  3. Globalization

    Globalization

    Edited by Arjun Appadurai

    Series a Public Culture book

    Duke University Press Books

    Edited by one of the most prominent scholars in the field and including a distinguished group of contributors, this collection of essays makes a striking intervention in the increasingly heated debates surrounding the cultural... Learn More
    Published: 3rd September 2001
    Hardback | £80.00
    Paperback | £20.99
  4. Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism

    Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism

    Edited by John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff

    Series a Public Culture book

    Duke University Press Books

    The essays in Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism pose a series of related questions: How are we to understand capitalism at the millennium? Is it a singular or polythetic creature? What are we to make of the... Learn More
    Published: 5th July 2001
    Hardback | £78.00
    Paperback | £19.99
  5. Alternative Modernities

    Alternative Modernities

    Edited by Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar

    Series a Public Culture book

    Duke University Press Books

    To think in terms of “alternative modernities” is to admit that modernity is inescapable and to desist from speculations about modernity’s end. Modernity today is global and multiple and no longer has a Western... Learn More
    Published: 18th June 2001
    Hardback | £82.00
  6. Alternative Modernities

    Alternative Modernities

    Edited by Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar

    Series a Public Culture book

    Duke University Press Books

    To think in terms of “alternative modernities” is to admit that modernity is inescapable and to desist from speculations about modernity’s end. Modernity today is global and multiple and no longer has a Western... Learn More
    Published: 18th June 2001
    Paperback | £20.99
  7. Cities and Citizenship

    Cities and Citizenship

    Edited by James Holston

    Series a Public Culture book

    Duke University Press Books

    Cities and Citizenship is a prize-winning collection of essays that considers the importance of cities in the making of modern citizens. For most of the modern era the nation and not the city has been the principal domain of citizenship.... Learn More
    Published: 6th November 1998
    Hardback | £76.00

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