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The Market Life of Japanese Literature in Postwar America: Knopf, Translation, and the Archives of Cultural Commerce
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positions (2024) 32 (3): 513–537.
Published: 01 August 2024
... of cultural commerce mixes aesthetic and economic modes of valuation, producing provocative connections that link what might otherwise seem to be the antagonistic realms of art and the market. Guided by documents held in the Knopf corporate archive, the article shows how the aesthetics of modern Japanese...
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Native Soil of Postmemory and Affective Archives in Wu Ming-Yi's The Stolen Bicycle
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 793–814.
Published: 01 November 2022
... generation's trauma is received by the generation after in the form of family tales, journals, recordings, strained parent‐child relationships, invested sentiments in family bicycles, and even supernatural experiences, the article discusses the way the historical past is invoked as “affective archives...
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KLM flight attendants with Dakko-chan dolls. Courtesy of National Archives ...
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Unpacking the Archive: Ichthyology, Photography, and the Archival Record in Japan and Korea
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positions (2010) 18 (1): 51–87.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Gyewon Kim This essay examines the interlayered relations between photography, archive, and science in imperial Japan and postcolonial Korea. It specifically takes its cue from two archival contexts: the archive made by Uchida Keitarô, a Japanese ichthyologist who surveyed in colonial Korea during...
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The Intelligence of Fools: Reading the US Military Archive of the Korean War
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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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Queer Reconfigurations: Bontoc Eulogy and Marlon Fuentes's Archive Imperative
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positions (2016) 24 (4): 727–759.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Jan Christian Bernabe The article explores the archive imperative in the 1995 film Bontoc Eulogy by Filipino American photographer and filmmaker Marlon Fuentes. The archive imperative is a decolonizing aesthetic and political strategy that challenges American colonial visual regimes and knowledge...
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Critique of Archived Life: Toward a Hesitation of Sikh Immigrant Accumulation
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positions (2021) 29 (2): 319–346.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Rajbir Singh Judge; Jasdeep Singh Brar Abstract In 2016, the Pioneering Punjabi Digital Archive (PPDA) went online. Attempting to reveal how the Punjabi community struggled and then thrived in California, the PPDA accumulates narratives of Punjabi American life. Against such models of archival...
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Archiving Facts and Documentary Films: Sites of Memorial Struggle for the October 6, 1976, Massacre in Thailand
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positions (2023) 31 (4): 893–918.
Published: 01 November 2023
... blanket amnesty laws and libel laws. Additionally, unreleased archival materials are restricted from public release by copyright law. Audiovisual and documentary evidence for counter‐memory projects are thus challenged. On the other hand, evidence collected by activist archivist groups reveals painful...
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Archive of the Missing: Speculative Visions and the Terms of Social Repair in Transnational Adoption
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positions (2025) 33 (2): 231–256.
Published: 01 May 2025
..., the article sees the missing as both a method and framework with which to imagine a vision of repair amid the debris of violence in the transnational adoption practice and archives. Both RHEE's and Liem's experimental engagement with the search — the search for the missing — uncovers intercalated dimensions...
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Long Live the Mass Line! Errant Cadres and Post-Disillusionment PRC History
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positions (2021) 29 (4): 783–807.
Published: 01 November 2021
.... In the post-disillusionment era, that realization became a methodology; generations of students were trained to look for sources that exposed the truths the Party ostensibly sought to hide. For archival historians this method has produced strange results, because many of the sources used to tell the untold...
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Beyond Bias: Critical Analysis and Layered Reading of Mao-Era Sources
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positions (2021) 29 (4): 759–782.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Sigrid Schmalzer Abstract Scholars of Mao-era history adopt a wide range of approaches to the selection and treatment of source material. Some scholars regard published sources as propaganda, and therefore as biased and unreliable. For many, archival sources are the gold standard; others question...
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The Politics and Pleasures of Historiographic Porn
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positions (2014) 22 (4): 749–780.
Published: 01 November 2014
... examine how and why these contexts led the filmmaker to take considerable liberties in adapting the story, in particular its conspicuous incorporation of archival photographs that document the rise of Japanese militarism in the mid- to late Taishō period (1912–26). I argue that the insistent injection...
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Reflexive Digitization and the Role of the University
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positions (2015) 23 (1): 181–184.
Published: 01 February 2015
...Guobin Yang The digital age opens up a new politics of visually representing the past. When entire archives and libraries can be easily digitized and made accessible to the public, what to digitize and how to do it should become matters of careful deliberation and critical reflection. Because once...
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From “the People” to “the Human”: HIV/AIDS, Neoliberalism, and the Economy of Virtue in Contemporary Vietnam
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 561–591.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Alfred Montoya Drawing on archival research and fieldwork conducted in Ho Chi Minh City and its environs in 2007–2008, this article examines a shift from a moral-economic model of protection/patronage turning on the long-standing figure of “the People,” to a biopolitical mechanism of power...
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Far-Right Orientalism and the Uyghurs: Revisiting Gunnar Jarring
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positions (2024) 32 (3): 463–487.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Jeff Eden Abstract No scholar has had a greater impact on the study of Xinjiang and the Uyghurs than the Swedish Orientalist and diplomat Gunnar Jarring (1907–2002). This is thanks, above all, to the remarkable archive of manuscripts from the region that he collected and curated. Known...
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Can the “Comfort Women” Footage Speak? The Afterlives of Camera Images as Document and the Flow of Life
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positions (2023) 31 (4): 803–838.
Published: 01 November 2023
... document depicting those moving women. This article examines the politics of using film footage excavated from archives long after the original production of the film. Both types of reactions shown toward the “comfort women” footage shared the same attitude, which viewed the footage as a repository...
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A Changing Representation: “Personal Writing” in Artistic Intervention in Chinese Rural Communities
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positions (2024) 32 (3): 713–744.
Published: 01 August 2024
..., this article takes artist Mao Chenyu's Paddy Film project as an example of personal writing and proposes this artist's activisms at Dongting Lake as a specific intervening field, visual ethnography as a method, paddy rice as a distinctive “thing,” and archival practices as a deconstructive pathway...
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Risk, Incorporated: Dr. Love and Mr. Money
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positions (2017) 25 (3): 595–629.
Published: 01 August 2017
... as transactional, the author further draws upon a durable archive of negotiations and transactions between public and private affects and interests—and their consequent impact upon the contemporary neoliberal subject(s) straddling the always porous boundaries of public and private spheres—to read culture as a site...
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Orbiting in the Field: A Taidan (Conversation) on Ecology and Filmmaking in Tohoku, Japan
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positions (2018) 26 (2): 213–241.
Published: 01 May 2018
... from the transcribed taidan, now archived as an oral history document as part of the Teach311.org project. The taidan ultimately serves as a clarifying example of the need to excavate the relationships among places, radioisotopes, and research that have come to define human relationships. The issues...
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From Seoul to Paris: Transnational Character in the Work of the Korean National Council of Women in Authoritarian South Korea
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positions (2020) 28 (3): 575–602.
Published: 01 August 2020
... under the anti-communist authoritarian regime. Based on archival research in South Korea and Belgium, this article argues that instead of following rules from above, the Korean National Council of Women negotiated a way to combine the advancement of women’s issues with the development of the nation...
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