Sarah Marusek is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawai'i Hilo, USA. Her research and teaching interests in jurisprudence include legal geography, legal semiotics, and constitutive legal theory.

Digesting the Public Sphere is a collection that engages and enlivens the public scope of everyday life by addressing and challenging the union of power, place, and politics. The chapters originally published as a special issue in Space and Polity.

1. Digesting the public sphere Sarah Marusek 2. From encountering confederate flags to finding refuge in spaces of solidarity: Filipino temporary foreign workers' experiences of the public in Alberta Ethel Tungohan 3. Overlapping publics and the negotiation of legitimacy in South African and Namibian sexual politics Julie Moreau and Ashley Currier 4. Gendered discipline, gendered space: an ethnographic approach to gendered violence in India Natasha Behl 5. Public spheres on the move: the embodied deliberation of cycling in Los Angeles Pernilla Johansson and Stacey Liou 6. Reflexivity, participatory art, and the failures of monist representation Kathleen Tipler and Christina Chang 7. Deconstructing naturalization ceremonies as public spectacles of citizenship Robin A. Harper 8. The aloha paradox: law, language, and culture in Hawai ' i Sarah Marusek