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Published: 01 February 2022
Figure 5 An image of the now-deserted former US military base. Still from Tour of Duty , frame grab, courtesy of Kim Dong-ryung. More
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 695–728.
Published: 01 November 2015
.... By beginning with a set of archives that has been foundational for much of the historiography around the Korean War—the documents of US military intelligence—this essay proposes a disruptive reading of the practices, assumptions, and structures of US military interrogation. During the state of emergency...
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 179–203.
Published: 01 February 2016
...Hae Yeon Choo Based on ethnographic research in an US military camp town in South Korea, this article examines camp town sexual commerce as a manifestation of shifting global hierarchies amid Asia's economic ascendance and the decline of US hegemony. Challenging the dichotomous constructions of US...
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positions (2020) 28 (3): 547–574.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Wendy Matsumura In July 1954, the US military notified residents of Isahama, Ginowan, in the central part of Okinawa Island, of their evictions from their lands. Despite immediate opposition by residents, the military rejected all appeals on the grounds that this and other evictions were necessary...
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positions (2018) 26 (1): 111–150.
Published: 01 February 2018
... political sovereignty because of its dependence on US military and nancial assistance. Constrained, moreover, by the vir- tual threat of a global nuclear exchange to ghting a limited war with the North (which excluded the possibility of real...
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positions (2012) 20 (3): 911–942.
Published: 01 August 2012
... and nationalism of these three fields, recognizing the importance of foregrounding war as a framework for linking Southeast Asian American experiences to a fundamental activity of the US military-industrial complex, and working through the challenges thus raised for these disciplines and their traditional modes...
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 807–835.
Published: 01 November 2015
... the ongoing presence of the US military in South Korea. The analysis highlights the ways in which Borshay Liem's and Kaisen's films make visible how such diasporas, linked to the larger diaspora produced by the Korean War, unsettle linear narratives of migration, arrival, and settlement. The failures...
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 837–849.
Published: 01 November 2015
... violence—committed by US forces, the South Korean police, military, and right-wing groups, as well as by leftist guerillas and the Korean People's Army—offer unique insight into what he calls the war politics that established and consolidated North and South Korea. Rather than ending the war, the armistice...
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 839–864.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Yi-Ting Chang Abstract In transpacific and Asian/American studies, islands often gain decolonial meaning via their explicit ties to US and Japanese military imperialisms. This article inquires how islands express the decolonial beyond US‐centric anti‐imperial critique, and how they complicate...
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positions (2013) 21 (1): 95–132.
Published: 01 February 2013
... 124 mon, can be used for a pimp.58 These and other Japanese-­English pidgin words followed US soldiers throughout the Asian Pacific as the US military presence expanded and became entrenched. Many of the words themselves...
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positions (2020) 28 (1): 87–119.
Published: 01 February 2020
... encounter with US feminist art icon Judy Chicago raised questions about the potential neocolonial influence of global feminist art. The work Lei subsequently produced performs an autoethnographic excavation of the sociohistorical categories—woman soldier, military artist, and woman artist—that made her...
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positions (2017) 25 (2): 389–429.
Published: 01 May 2017
... calls attention to the context of every element in an image. Using the same approach, the follow- ing elements are seen in the first image of Suzuki and Onoda together (Fig. 2): the military officer, the civilian youth, the knife, the rifle...
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 619–631.
Published: 01 November 2015
... comics were constrained by the need to avoid discouraging military recruitment. Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Korean War comic books masculinity Korean War Comic Books and the Militarization of US Masculinity Leonard Rifas The Korean War years, 1950...
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positions (2020) 28 (3): 659–675.
Published: 01 August 2020
... Struggle for Demilitarization .” In The Bases of Empire: The Global Struggle against US Military Posts , edited by Lutz Catherine , 243 – 69 . New York . New York University Press . “Asian Women’s Liberation” (“Ajia to Josei Kaiho”) . 1977 . Ajia no On’natachi no Kai , no. 1 , May...
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 393–420.
Published: 01 May 2011
... 416 deploy military forces to use Mindanao (and its Muslim people) as a training ground for war in the Middle East. The film does present different perspectives on the issue of the conflicts in Mindanao, and it even...
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positions (2010) 18 (3): 599–631.
Published: 01 August 2010
... technologies these two men employed (wet-collodion photography and stereography, respectively) is crucial to decoding not only how these images look to us now but also the way they suggested and perpetuated imperial ways of seeing, evaluating, and profiting from technologically reproduced visions of “China...
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positions (2015) 23 (1): 91–114.
Published: 01 February 2015
... military execution of Chinese prisoners of war were displayed in a pedagogical context, instigating textual protests on the part of Chinese students studying abroad. This article analyzes the two institutional contexts of display, the two images of wartime execution, the pedagogical uses of images...
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positions (2016) 24 (2): 403–433.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Benjamin Tausig During ten weeks of antigovernment protest in spring 2010, the Thai military used physical and psychological tactics, including coercive broadcasting of music and sound, to combat demonstrations in Bangkok. Before a violent crackdown in May, protesters and soldiers spent ten weeks...
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positions (2020) 28 (2): 481–495.
Published: 01 May 2020
... Journal: Japan Focus 5 , no. 12 : 1 – 7 . Pauwels Jacques R. 2018 . “ Why America Needs War .” Global Research: Center for Research on Globalization , September 8 . www.globalresearch.ca/why-america-needs-war/5328631 . Price Greg . 2017 . “ US Military Presence in Asia...
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 597–617.
Published: 01 November 2015
... to US imperial state building and global capitalist hegemony from mid-­century onward, the Korean War has fostered a for- midable, crisis-­generating, self-­perpetuating, institutional architecture — the national security state, the military...