Public Culture is a reviewed interdisciplinary journal of cultural studies, published three times a year in Fall, Winter, and Spring for the Society for Transnational Cultural Studies by the Duke University Press.

In the eighteen years of its existence, Public Culture has established itself as a prize-winning, field-defining cultural studies journal. Public Culture seeks a critical understanding of the global cultural flows and the cultural forms of the public sphere which define the late twentieth century. As such, the journal provides a forum for the discussion of the places and occasions where cultural, social, and political differences emerge as public phenomena, manifested in everything from highly particular and localized events in popular or folk culture to global advertising, consumption, and information networks.

Artists, activists, and both well-established and younger scholars, from across the humanities and social sciences and around the world, present some of their most innovative and exciting work in the pages of Public Culture. Among recent contributors are:

Michael Warner: "Publics and Counterpublics"

Charles Taylor: "Modern Social Imaginaries"

Nilufer Gole: "Islam in Public: New Visibilities and New Imaginaries"

John Borneman: "Reconciliation after Ethnic Cleansing: Listening, Retribution, Affiliation"

Li Zhang: "Spatiality and Urban Citizenship in Late Socialist China"

Marita Sturken: "Desiring the Weather: El Nino, the Media, and California Identity"

Eric Fassin: "Same Sex, Different Politics: 'Gay Marriage' Debates in France and the United States"

Public Culture has recently published special issues on Violence and Redemption, New Imaginaries, and The Critical Limits of Embodiment.

Editorial Vision
Public Culture reports and reflects current research on:

• 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.

Public Culture seeks to:

• establish an international network of scholars committed to research on public culture issues and debates, and on such cosmopolitan cultural forms as cinema, sport, television and video, restaurants, domestic tourism, advertising, fiction, architecture, and museums.
• explore the cultural implications of such processes as migration, the internationalization of fiction, and the construction of alternative modernities.
• situate these forms, flows, and processes in their historical and political contexts.
• publish excerpts from ongoing scholarly work (including recent ph.d. dissertations), news clippings and media material as well as correspondence from our readers.
• announce recent publications, and encourage network members to facilitate their acquisition or exchange, particularly across national boundaries, for colleagues who have problems with foreign currency.
• encourage contributions from intellectuals both inside and outside the academy.