This Cultural Dynamics Special Issue on “The Intimate Workings of Culture” examines the complex ways power, audience, and imagination are implicated in the social practices and politics of cultural intimacy. First theorized by Michael Herzfeld in 1997, cultural intimacy has proven to be a productive lens through which to explore the dialectic between the construction and contestation of collective identities. The contributors—Joshua Friedman, Jamie Shenton, Christopher Berk, and Tamar Shirinian—expand the concept’s geographical and contextual scope by applying it to Indigenous Australia, post-soviet states, American ethnic identity politics, and social media. The contributors’ shared emphasis on the emergent and indeterminate interrelationships between audience, imagination, power, and politics within the intimate workings of culture provides valuable templates for new arenas of analysis and inquiry.

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文化的私密运作：简介

这本关于“文化的内在运作”的文化动力学特刊探讨​​了力量，受众和想象力与文化亲密关系的社会实践和政治相关的复杂方式。文化亲密关系是迈克尔·赫兹菲尔德（Michael Herzfeld）于1997年首次提出的，它被证明是一种富有成效的镜头，通过它可以探索建构和认同集体身份之间的辩证法。贡献者-约书亚·弗里德曼（Joshua Friedman），杰米·辛顿（Jamie Shenton），克里斯托弗·伯克（Christopher Berk）和塔玛·西里尼安（Tamar Shirinian），通过将其应用到澳大利亚原住民，后苏联国家，美国种族认同政治和社交媒体，扩展了该概念的地理和背景范围。贡献者共同强调观众，想象力，力量，