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Public Culture is a reviewed interdisciplinary academic journal of cultural studies, founded in 1988 by anthropologists Carol Breckinridge 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 Charles Taylor, Asef Bayat, Dipesh Chakrabarty, George Chauncey, Joshua Comaroff, Achille Mbembe, and Michael Watts.

Public Culture is currently edited at Columbia University and published for the Society for Transnational Cultural Studies by Duke University Press. In 2006, the journal moved from The New School to Columbia to accompany its editor, Claudio Lomnitz, in his new position as director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. In its first year under Lomnitz, Public Culture underwent a complete redesign and implemented three new regular front-of-book sections including “Doxa at Large,” a space for shorter opinion pieces on recent events and trends concerning the intersection of politics, religion, and culture.

The journal has received recognition from several sources, including a nomination for Best Journal Design in the 2007 Council of Editors of Learned Journals Awards and a favorable review in the Times Literary Supplement.