Call for Contributions
Public Culture 14(3): ix-xi (2002); DOI:10.1215/08992363-14-3-ix [PDF]  

Elizabeth A. Povinelli

Editor's Note
Public Culture 14(3): vii-viii (2002); DOI:10.1215/08992363-14-3-vii [PDF]  

Controversies

Joseph Masco

Lie Detectors: On Secrets and Hypersecurity in Los Alamos
Public Culture 14(3): 441-467 (2002); DOI:10.1215/08992363-14-3-441 [PDF] [References]  

Scott MacDonald

Pioneering Spirit: An Interview with Ellen Spiro
Public Culture 14(3): 468-475 (2002); DOI:10.1215/08992363-14-3-468 [PDF]  

John Martone

Historic Truths / Looking at Earth
Public Culture 14(3): 477-492 (2002); DOI:10.1215/08992363-14-3-477 [PDF] [References]  

Julia Elyachar

Empowerment Money: The World Bank, Non-Governmental Organizations, and the Value of Culture in Egypt
Public Culture 14(3): 493-513 (2002); DOI:10.1215/08992363-14-3-493 [PDF]  

Rebecca L. Stein

"First Contact" and Other Israeli Fictions: Tourism, Globalization, and the Middle East Peace Process
Public Culture 14(3): 515-544 (2002); DOI:10.1215/08992363-14-3-515 [PDF] [References]  

Jonathan Bach

"The Taste Remains": Consumption, (N)ostalgia, and the Production of East Germany
Public Culture 14(3): 545-556 (2002); DOI:10.1215/08992363-14-3-545 [PDF] [References]  

Nicholas Blomley

Mud for the Land
Public Culture 14(3): 557-582 (2002); DOI:10.1215/08992363-14-3-557 [PDF] [References]  

African Modes of Self-Writing Revisited

Ato Quayson

Obverse Denominations: Africa?
Public Culture 14(3): 585-588 (2002); DOI:10.1215/08992363-14-3-585 [PDF]  

Paul Gilroy

Toward a Critique of Consumer Imperialism
Public Culture 14(3): 589-591 (2002); DOI:10.1215/08992363-14-3-589 [PDF]  

Bogumil Jewsiewicki

The Subject in Africa: In Foucault's Footsteps
Public Culture 14(3): 593-598 (2002); DOI:10.1215/08992363-14-3-593 [PDF] [References]  

Jane I. Guyer

Contemplating Uncertainty
Public Culture 14(3): 599-602 (2002); DOI:10.1215/08992363-14-3-599 [PDF] [References]  

Bennetta Jules-Rosette

Afro-Pessimism's Many Guises
Public Culture 14(3): 603-605 (2002); DOI:10.1215/08992363-14-3-603 [PDF] [References]  

Françoise Vergès

The Power of Words
Public Culture 14(3): 607-610 (2002); DOI:10.1215/08992363-14-3-607 [PDF] [References]  

Arif Dirlik

Historical Colonialism in Contemporary Perspective
Public Culture 14(3): 611-615 (2002); DOI:10.1215/08992363-14-3-611 [PDF]  

Kimberly Wedeven Segall

Postcolonial Performatives of Victimization
Public Culture 14(3): 617-619 (2002); DOI:10.1215/08992363-14-3-617 [PDF]  

Souleymane Bachir Diagne

Keeping Africanity Open
Public Culture 14(3): 621-623 (2002); DOI:10.1215/08992363-14-3-621 [PDF] [References]  

Candace Vogler

Social Imaginary, Ethics, and Methodological Individualism
Public Culture 14(3): 625-627 (2002); DOI:10.1215/08992363-14-3-625 [PDF]  

Achille Mbembe

On the Power of the False
Public Culture 14(3): 629-641 (2002); DOI:10.1215/08992363-14-3-629 [PDF]  

From the Field

Anne-Maria Makhulu

New Housing, New Dreams? Southern Delft Housing Scheme, Cape Town, South Africa, 1999
Public Culture 14(3): 643 (2002); DOI:10.1215/08992363-14-3-643 [PDF]  

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