PUBLIC WORKS
OVERVIEW
Public Works is the CTS's international publications project. It includes the contemporary paperback series Public Planet Books (a collaboration with Duke University Press) and CTS-sponsored books. Benjamin Lee is Public Works' executive director.
PUBLIC PLANET BOOKS
Editors: Dilip Gaonkar, Jane Kramer, Benjamin Lee, and Michael Warner
Public Planet Books is a series under the auspices of Duke University Press and supported by the CTS. It is designed for a public that reaches beyond experts and academics. Combining narrative description with informed reflection, each book focuses on an issue or event that is still unfolding. Public Planet Books are extended essays (about 120 pages), readable in a single sitting.
Public Planet Books meets a need for new forms of writing about contemporary culture. In the academy, cultural studies is seldom written for a nonexpert public. And in nonacademic publishing, space for critical reflection is hard to find. Issues of public culture are also becoming more urgent and more complex; from student demonstrations in Beijing to multiculturalism debates in New York, conflicts are increasingly both local and international. Public Planet Booksallows local narrative accounts to be read in an international context.
Titles in the Series:
Sanford Levinson, Written in Stone, 1998/2018
Nilüfer Göle, Islam and Secularity: The Future of Europe's Public Sphere, 2015
Marc Abélès, trans. Julie Kleinman, The Politics of Survival, 2010
Elizabeth A. Povinelli, The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality, 2006
Arjun Appadurai, Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger, 2006
Marcie Frank, How to Be an Intellectual in the Age of TV: The Lessons of Gore Vidal, 2005
Edward LiPuma and Benjamin Lee, Financial Derivatives and the Globalization of Risk, 2004
Doris Sommer, Bilingual Aesthetics: A New Sentimental Education, 2004
Charles Taylor, Modern Social Imaginaries, 2003
Michel Feher, Powerless by Design: The Age of the International Community, 2000
Janet Halley, Don′t: A Reader's Guide to the Military's Anti-Gay Policy, 1999
Julie Taylor, Paper Tangoes, 1998
Jane Gallop, Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment, 1997
Jane Kramer, Whose Art Is It?, 1994
PUBLIC WORLDS BOOKS
Series Editors: Dilip Gaonkar and Benjamin Lee
Public Worlds Books was a collaboration between the CTS and the University of Minnesota Press. It consisted in a series of single-authored monographs and edited volumes in the field of transnational cultural studies. Public Worlds Books sought to locate contemporary cultural issues in wider landscapes of international debate so that apparently local problems—be it multiculturalism in the United States or human rights in China—can be related to problems in other societies around the world.
Public Worlds Books examined how global culture works in specific locations. Each title in the series situated local public problems and compares them with other contexts of cultural criticism. Although topics treated in the series were not limited to works with a transnational comparative focus, Public Worlds Books has contributed to transcultural dialogues among critical voices on contemporary issues.
Titles in the Series:
Arjun Appadurai, Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization, 1996
Ackbar Abbas, Hong Kong: Culture and Politics of Disappearance, 1997
Naoki Sakai, Translation and Subjectivity: On "Japan" and Cultural Nationalism, 1997
Mayfair Mei-hui Yang, editor, Spaces of Their Own: Women's Public Sphere in Transnational China, 1998
May Joseph, Nomadic Identities: The Performance of Citizenship, 1999
Radhika Mohanram, Black Body: Women, Colonialism, and Space, 1999
Patricia Seed, American Pentimento: The Invention of Indians and the Pursuit of Riches, 2001
Greg Urban, Metaculture: How Culture Moves through the World, 2001
Claudio Lomnitz, Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico: An Anthropology of Nationalism, 2001
Ulf Hedetoft and Mette Hjort, editors, The Postnational Self: Belonging and Identity, 2002
Daniel Herwitz, Race and Reconciliation: Essays from the New South Africa, 2003
Ato Quayson, Calibrations: Reading for the Social, 2003
Richard Harvey Brown, editor, The Politics of Selfhood: Bodies and Identities in Global Capitalism, 2003
Alev Çınar, Modernity, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey: Bodies, Places, and Time, 2005
Mette Hjort, Small Nation, Global Cinema: The New Danish Cinema, 2005
Qadri Ismail, Abiding by Sri Lanka: On Peace, Place, and Postcolonality, 2005
Chris Berry, Soyoung Kim, and Lynn Spigel, editors, Electronic Elsewheres: Media, Technology, and the Experience of Social Space, 2009
CTS-SPONSORED BOOKS
In addition to books published in the Public Planet Books series and the Public Worlds Books series, the CTS has directly contributed to the publication of other books through the funding of conferences and working groups. Among the books to which the CTS has materially contributed are the following:
Natural Histories of Discourse, eds. Michael Silverstein and Greg Urban, 1996
Habermas and the Public Sphere, ed. Craig Calhoun, 1993
Bourdieu: Critical Perspectives, eds. Craig Calhoun, Edward LiPuma, and Moishe Postone, 1993
Reflexive Language: Reported Speech and Metapragmatics, ed. John A. Lucy, 1993
Semiotics, Self, and Society, eds. Benjamin Lee and Greg Urban, 1989
Social and Functional Approaches to Language and Thought, ed. Maya Hickman, 1987
Semiotic Mediation, eds. Elizabeth Mertz and Richard J. Parmentier, 1985
Culture, Communication, and Cognition: Vygotskian Perspectives, ed. James V. Wertsch, 1985
Developmental Approaches to the Self, eds. Benjamin Lee and Gil G. Noam, with the collaboration of Kathleen Smith, 1983
Psychosocial Theories of the Self, ed. Benjamin Lee, with the collaboration of Kathleen Smith, 1982