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positions (2008) 16 (3): 711–742.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Simon Avenell Duke University Press 2008 From the “People” to the “Citizen”:
Tsurumi Shunsuke and the Roots of Civic Mythology in Postwar Japan
Simon Avenell
What could be more emblematic of postwar Japanese democracy than the
spontaneous birth...
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positions (2008) 16 (3): 753–760.
Published: 01 August 2008
...J. Victor Koschmann Duke University Press 2008 Avenell’s “Citizen”
J. Victor Koschmann
Simon Avenell’s contribution to an intellectual and political history of the
“citizen” (shimin) in postwar Japan reopens an issue that has not received...
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positions (2009) 17 (3): 523–535.
Published: 01 August 2009
... to it. It then introduces each of the subsequent essays in this special issue on suzhi and explains the connections between them. Duke University Press 2009 Quality and Citizenship in China
Cultivating Citizens: Suzhi (Quality) Discourse in the PRC
Tamara Jacka
In contemporary China...
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positions (2002) 10 (1): 79–110.
Published: 01 February 2002
...Wesley Sasaki-Uemura 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Competing Publics: Citizens’ Groups, Mass Media,
and the State in the 1960s
Wesley Sasaki-Uemura
Prelude on a Phone Booth
A virtual museum on the internet about public telephones in Japan carries...
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Published: 01 February 2022
Figure 2 Two knives on the table in 12 Citizens , similar to scene in 12 Angry Men .
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Published: 01 February 2022
Figure 3 All twelve jurors in 12 Citizens raise their hands to acquit the accused.
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positions (2022) 30 (1): 137–158.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Figure 1 Juror #8 reveals his identity in 12 Citizens . ...
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positions (2017) 25 (4): 821–842.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., and its symbolic and practical ties to the bodies of other common citizens. The author frames these interlinked relationships as “body politics,” a process in which the interaction of corporeal bodies in public spaces and their representations by channels of mass media would subject the national body...
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positions (2019) 27 (2): 297–332.
Published: 01 May 2019
...: geopolitical relations between Singapore and its regional neighbors; legal relations between Singaporean citizens and temporary nonresidents from these neighboring countries working in Singapore’s low-wage labor industries; and racialized relations between Singapore’s Chinese majority and the South...
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positions (2019) 27 (3): 469–497.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Jamie Coates Over the past thirty years, moving overseas has been a positively valued aspiration in China. On both a government level, and within popular discourse, migration has been propagated as a means to be better citizens, and a better nation, resonating with families’ desire for a better...
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positions (2021) 29 (3): 523–549.
Published: 01 August 2021
... in response to the formal legal system, what it supports and allows. The article uses theorizations of legal consciousness, law's “shadows,” and “order without law” to compare strategies and reactions of Japanese citizens and foreigners engaging the legal system in Japan. It argues that the written...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 479–499.
Published: 01 August 2022
... lineage. Meanwhile, they intensify the predatory extraction of rent and fees from migrant laborers so as to navigate the dilemmas associated with state-endorsed projects of displacement and development. The seemingly paradoxical identifications of the peasant landlords as both rural and urban citizens...
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 143–169.
Published: 01 February 2023
...,” Chinese state agents, edu‐entrepreneurs, and citizen‐learners sought to reconcile their desires to simultaneously participate in neoliberal globalization and protect their cultural identities and national interests. [email protected] Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 323–352.
Published: 01 May 2022
... and their children's children who are at high risk of statelessness, unlike the latter who are mostly citizens of Vietnam. Without birth certificates, these children live precarious lives in Cambodia, often in the shadows of ethnic discrimination, poverty, and violence. By using various qualitative research methods...
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 129–149.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Charlotte Bruckermann Abstract Faced with environmental degradation and atmospheric pollution, Chinese citizens increasingly envision the good life as a green life. Yet in cities and the countryside, understandings of environmental hardship and ecological redress diverge and at times even...
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positions (2009) 17 (2): 289–314.
Published: 01 May 2009
... in Taiwan reveals, through historical lenses, the ways in which law constructs national membership along gendered lines that subordinate women. Specifically, I examine how a woman's membership to the nation was dependent on her marital status, how citizen-mothers were deprived of the entitlement to define...
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positions (2010) 18 (1): 253–277.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Jack Linchuan Qiu Does the Internet, a key technological infrastructure in contemporary urban China, facilitate the emergence of private entrepreneurs and autonomous citizens? Who deserves the credit? Chinese national leaders answered “yes” to the first question and pointed to themselves...
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 437–470.
Published: 01 May 2012
...” and urban practices, and their eradication from the landscape of urban memory. Visual spectacles of demolition thus signify new aesthetic and economic regimes that link capitalist redevelopment and redesign to the formation of modern, prosperous, and “civilized” cities and citizens. Copyright 2012 by Duke...
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 629–656.
Published: 01 May 2012
... on cash transactions, thus the quality of money encompasses more than its relationship to price. While the demand among Vietnamese citizens for a reliable currency resonates with contemporary neoliberalism, it cannot be reduced to it. By way of addressing the divergent concerns with the quality of money...
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