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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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Published: 01 February 2022
Figure 4 KLM flight attendants with Dakko-chan dolls. Courtesy of National Archives of the Netherlands.
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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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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 (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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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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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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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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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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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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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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positions (2019) 27 (4): 569–595.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Alexander C. Cook Mao’s most famous statement about postcolonial struggle came in response to the Congo Crisis of the 1960s, yet China’s understanding of and involvement in that conflict has been largely ignored. Based on briefly declassified archival sources and long-forgotten cultural works...
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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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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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positions (2021) 29 (4): 719–758.
Published: 01 November 2021
... the findings—conceptualizations whose plausibility arises not from the archive but from the historian's own historically situated sensibilities. This article identifies a deep orientation at work in an otherwise highly diverse set of scholarship on the early PRC. A research paradigm privileging the individual...
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positions (2021) 29 (4): 689–718.
Published: 01 November 2021
... grassroots sources. Grassroots documents, many of which are local archives discarded by the state, have prompted new research questions and uncovered hidden dimensions of the Mao years, but they remain inaccessible to the broader research community unless scholars go out of their way to digitize and share...
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positions (2022) 30 (1): 61–84.
Published: 01 February 2022
... of turmoil” in its aftermath. Stories circulate widely about men who were labeled as sodomites, humiliated and tortured in public, and sentenced to hard labor; some reportedly were beaten to death or committed suicide during this period. Using oral history and archival cases collected by the author...
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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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positions (2010) 18 (1): 13–17.
Published: 01 February 2010
... scholarship resurfacing just now. The essays herein
offer examples of trauma history and trauma art, the colonial politics of the
archive, and unvarnished evidentiary critique; they are models of how to pick
apart fascist literary procedures, expose...
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positions (2015) 23 (1): 191–193.
Published: 01 February 2015
... Visualizing Cultures website at the center of the controversy
was entitled “Throwing Off Asia,” and the two web pages upon which stu-
dents centered their protest were entitled “Throwing Off Asia” and “Old
China, New Japan.” Internet Archive’s Wayback...
