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positions (2015) 23 (4): 743–784.
Published: 01 November 2015
... examines the ongoing Korean War as the backdrop for the neoconservative emergence of human rights critique of North Korea. Examining the transnational funding matrix behind the publication and international circulation of the North Korean defector memoir, specifically the National Endowment for Democracy's...
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 581–613.
Published: 01 May 2011
..., degenerate, erroneous, and cruel decisions.”38 Because Liu appears to endorse U.Sstyle electoral democracy for China, he has been underwritten with hundreds of thousands of dollars from the U.S. National Endowment for Democracy.39 Liu and his...
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positions (2012) 20 (1): 7–35.
Published: 01 February 2012
... for such spatial regularities has been the nation-state form, itself a predominantly spatial figure, and its capacity for modernizing transformation leading to the establishment of modern rationalities such as the liberal democratic polity, capital accumulation, and the self-regulating market, which would...
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positions (2013) 21 (4): 921–945.
Published: 01 November 2013
... efflorescence. Spatial differences are endowed with a subversive potential visvis the homogenized space and time presided by a nation-­state. This article argues, through a critique of GMD’s spatial politics, that projecting spaces of differ...
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positions (1995) 3 (2): 510–536.
Published: 01 May 1995
...Gi-Wook Shin Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Marxism, Anti-Americanism, and Democracy in South Korea: An Examination of Nationalist Intellectual Discourse Gi-Wook Shin Our movements of transformation aim to obtain a national liberation...
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 537–554.
Published: 01 May 2010
... in with Taiwan’s own precarious nation-­state status, the liberal democracy that is Taiwan today proves to be especially vulnerable to populist fluctuations in opinions and val- ues. In other words, against-­the-­grain views face formidable obstacles...
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positions (2017) 25 (1): 223–248.
Published: 01 February 2017
... communities overseen by the haveli 's amir (overlord) dissipated with the declining financial and social powers of the Mughal emperor, and India's many regents and noblemen. Since the mid-twentieth century, havelis largely populate the nation's landscape as heritage sites or decaying buildings parceled out...
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positions (2005) 13 (2): 329–378.
Published: 01 May 2005
... this paradox asserted itself in a more glaring manner than in the post-communist world today. Contrary to the neoliberal views of the “end of history,” the eager turn of former communist and developing nations to free-market economy and liberal democracy...
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positions (1997) 5 (1): 285–314.
Published: 01 February 1997
... the constitution that U.S. democracy advo- cates imposed when they occupied Japan. On the other hand, the Japanese tried to build a new nation and accordingly minimized the role of the Emperor in the constitution. In that process, the Japanese came...
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positions (2009) 17 (1): 73–95.
Published: 01 February 2009
... for the colonization of or unilateral domi- nation over East Asia, but rather for the creation of a unified yet internally heterogeneous cultural sphere called the East Asian Cooperative Body (Ta kydtai) (MKZ, 17:513). These two texts...
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positions (2020) 28 (2): 389–420.
Published: 01 May 2020
... of Narrative in the Human Sciences . Albany : State University of New York Press . Hong Guo-Juin . 2011 . Taiwan Cinema. A Contested Nation on Screen . New York : Palgrave Macmillan . Hsiao Hsin-huang Michael Ho Ming-sho . 2010 . “ Civil Society and Democracy-Making in Taiwan: Re...
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 307–334.
Published: 01 May 2011
..., the fragment is endowed with the ability to generate meaning on its own, to communicate a “complete narrative message in its own right.”16 positions 19:2  Fall 2011 318 The semiautonomous fragment of the postmodern film...
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positions (2009) 17 (2): 435–454.
Published: 01 May 2009
... realist styles into an aesthetics of “disillusioned cinema”: a postmodern urban genre that simultaneously derides personal fantasies of sexual love and political fantasies of nation building. Both films use the formulas of romance to highlight the illusions and alienations of contemporary love...
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positions (1996) 4 (1): 145–172.
Published: 01 February 1996
... that ethnicity arose in reaction to “the homogeniza- tion of people.” In our times, the “homogenization of people” has been cre- ated by three factors-global capitalism, the apparatus of the nation-state, and world culture by means of modern...
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positions (1995) 3 (1): 1–68.
Published: 01 February 1995
..., the world and society, and endow these with meanings. Chen not only regarded science and human rights (or democracy as called later) his- torically as the “two wheels” of the vehicle of modern civilization, he also explicitly favored...
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positions (1993) 1 (3): 745–778.
Published: 01 August 1993
... of subjects as a pop- ulation, and as individuals (in terms of their sexual and reproductive behav- ior) in the interests of ensuring security and prosperity for the nation-state as a whole. Under liberal democracy, biopolitical regulation...
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positions (2004) 12 (1): 261–288.
Published: 01 February 2004
..., Technology, and Ecology in her hometown of Dehra Dun in the Himalayan foothills. From that time, she has moved from strength to strength. In 1991 she founded Navdanya—a national movement to protect the diversity and integrity of living resources...
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 253–279.
Published: 01 February 2016
... and care deficit, Taiwan and Japan have nevertheless adopted divergent approaches to recruiting and training migrant care workers (“deferential surrogates” vs. “professional others”). This comparison demonstrates national diversity in the intersecting formation of care regime and migration regime. It also...
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positions (1994) 2 (2): 446–463.
Published: 01 May 1994
...Dipesh Chakrabarty Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 References Ahmad , Aijaz . 1992 . In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures. London: Verso. Certeau , Michel de . 1988 . The Writing of History. Trans. Tom Conley. New York: Columbia University Press...
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positions (2002) 10 (2): 399–429.
Published: 01 May 2002
.... This constellation of questions, which concerns the limits of the nation-state and the discourse of national sovereignty, is by no means exclusive to modern China, yet the historical specificity of Chinese experiences of exile, in all their unrecordable...