... and performs a capacious form of localization. Marginality from the normative nation-state and interimperial positionality compel them to enact decentered visions of historical Chineseness and imagine anti-imperial solidarities with the margins of different imperial formations across history. The article...

... foreign policy and positionality to shape adoption to meet their respective national interests. This study extends US-centered adoption scholarship by revealing broader implications of Cold War geopolitics in cross-border adoptions to Scandinavia and, more importantly, significant ways in which...

... clearly defines the book's key terms, examines the history of caste, and briefly touches on his own positionality. Drawing on a diverse body of literature to analyze scholarship concerning the term “folk,” he builds an inimitable case for applying the process of folklorization to the South Asian context...

... positionality as someone who was born and raised in China and who has experienced “otherness” as a sojourner in Hong Kong and as an immigrant in the United States. This leads to the topic of positionality. Even though Rowen admits that his “raced, gendered, and nationalized positionality affected the conduct...

... narratives of social history—particularly for those who, under normal conditions, do not raise their voice and did not have letters to leave records. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2021 2021 agrarian studies Asian studies positionality science of practice James C. Scott...

... as NGO organizations that support these communities. Advancing an analysis of “gendered border positionalities,” the author recognizes how low-wage and informal migrants (mostly women) in refugee camps or in garment factories, industrial farmlands, construction, the domestic sector, and hospitality must...

... experiences of its modern practitioners and participants as members of marginalized Indigenous communities. Last but not least, Nono pays attention to how competing ideas about gender structure both the formation of the featured ritual specialists and their later positionalities, which in turn inflects...

... 3 discourses of objectivity in international health are also critiqued for the insistent emphasis on rational and 460 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES technical progress. In response to Amartya Sen's nuanced argument for objective positionality, Kleinman suggests that positionality is inherently complex...

... officially excluded communities coming to terms with an otherwise volatile state. Roberts begins with an autoethnographic confession. After considering fieldwork as the quest to “understand from within,” Roberts offers a treatment of her own positionality as a researcher with a “Western-educated...

... studies scholars about my interest in race and migration between Asia and America, but nowadays there seems to be more acceptance of these themes in the field. What about other themes? Insomuch as the choice of a research theme is often inseparable from the researcher's positionality in terms of gender...

..., Hong Kong, 1997. xxii, 316 pp.$18.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 460 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES technical progress. In response to Amartya Sen's nuanced argument for objective positionality, Kleinman suggests that positionality is inherently complex...

... process in which India and Burma were formed in antithesis to one another as part of a twentieth-century partition that is often marginalized historiographically. N itasha K aul considers Bhutan's geographic, economic, and historical positionality “inbetween” India and China to offer an alternative...

... the House of Sharing ( Nanumŭi jip ). He shows gentle restraint not to speak for the women, a common trap for many scholars and activists alike. Instead, he lets the women speak for themselves and show “their courage and creativity” (p. 142). Pilzer is fully cognizant of his own positionality...

... larger intellectual debates and scholarly trends of that period, shedding light on complex factionalism, and overlapping positionalities in intellectual and political spaces. ...

... of her own positionality is a missed opportunity to include her role in holding up mirrors to both Western and Bangladeshi feminists and anti-feminists. Shehabuddin's narrative offers a way for both sides to understand themselves and each other more clearly—thus by writing this book, she becomes part...

... presents the first English-language monograph on Okinawan fiction featuring astute analyses of literary works spanning the early 1900s through the 21 st century. As current geopolitical realities reinforce Okinawa's complex historical positionality, Bhowmik provides a timely treatment of how Okinawan...

... and creative expressions of Muslims. This volume also shows that art is never simply about some spontaneous “individual creativity,” but always about positionality, cultural sensitivity, ethnicity, national identity, religiosity, transnational experience, and political thinking. Who creates what art for whom...

... of covering the topic from refreshingly different angles, some specialist readers may have the feeling that the discussion remains too superficial (according to the disciplinary taste). Reading this monograph as an anthropologist, for instance, I noticed how the author's own positionality sometimes gets...

... upon that kind of broader political self-reflection just once, in an aside that pokes fun at the rather trendy academic noun “positionality.” Be that as it may, the book, for all its discerning analyses and approachable style, could certainly have grounded its cross-comparative, analytic goals more...

... becomes “global” and what feels “familiar”; outside of the last chapter's consideration of African migrants’ awkward positionality vis-à-vis Delhi's hip hop scene, Dattatreyan does not fully acknowledge or explore the role of Blackness (and anti-Blackness) in these flows. Furthermore, while Dattatreyan...