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Running and Reading Remnant Danwei Walls in China's Postsocialist City
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positions (2023) 31 (3): 677–708.
Published: 01 August 2023
... provides a reading of visual social phenomena, contributing to the understanding of signifying practices in postsocialist urban China. [email protected] Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 China danwei walls visual ethnography postsocialist city urban history...
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Transperipheral Educational Mobility: Less Privileged South Korean Young Adults Pursuing English Language Study in a Peripheral City in the Philippines
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 377–407.
Published: 01 May 2022
... in a pattern of youth mobility the author calls “transperipheral educational mobility.” This type of mobility refers to the transnational movement of less-privileged, that is low-resourced, South Korean youth from peripheral regions in South Korea to peripheral cities in the Philippines for the purpose...
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Who Makes the City? Beijing's Urban Villages as Sites of Ideological Contestation
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 455–477.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Jane Hayward; Małgorzata Jakimów Abstract Inside Beijing are hundreds of urban villages. Originally farming villages, now engulfed by urban expansion, they persist due to China's segregated urban-rural property system. Inhabitants are often still classed as peasants, despite being inside the city...
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Bright Lights, Big City: Lighting, Technological Modernity, and Ozu Yasujirô's Sono Yo No Tsuma ( That Night's Wife , 1930)
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positions (2014) 22 (1): 161–201.
Published: 01 February 2014
... or the geopolitical hierarchy and structural hegemony of center/periphery and places itself in the sensory network of global film culture of the historical point of 1930. Copyright 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Bright Lights, Big City: Lighting, Technological Modernity,
and Ozu Yasujirô’s Sono yo...
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North Korea's Vinalon City: Industrialism as Socialist Everyday Life
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positions (2014) 22 (4): 809–836.
Published: 01 November 2014
... it (the colonial chemist Ri Sŭnggi, scouted by North Korea in 1950). The Vinalon Factory near Hamhŭng City—a factory originally built by a Japanese chemical company and a city rebuilt with the assistance of East Germany—also became a national emblem of its own, as a factory that arose solely from the toil...
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Moving toward prem Nagar : An Intimate Genealogy of the “City of Love” And the Lyrical Worlds of Hindustani Film Songs
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positions (2017) 25 (1): 51–99.
Published: 01 February 2017
...Samhita Sunya By charting a genealogy of prem nagar in this article, from its literary antecedents through its cinematic iterations, the author shows that the referent for prem nagar in film songs is derived from a generalized experience of transit to and within the modern-industrial city...
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Urban/the City: An Experiment Called the “Kochi Film”
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positions (2017) 25 (1): 173–194.
Published: 01 February 2017
... iterative images, the city as a visible space that was distinct, and situated within the state of Kerala, was undertaken. The “city” in Malayalam cinema is at once mediated by a history of its engagement with aesthetics and economics, as well as the modes with which precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial...
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A City of Ten Years: Public/Private Internet Development in Nanhai
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positions (2010) 18 (1): 253–277.
Published: 01 February 2010
... as the answer to the second. This essay maintains, however, that local state actors played the central and effectively centralizing role in informatization ( xinxihua ) projects in Nanhai City, Guangdong province. Through local e-government projects and a series of policies regarding land use, financing...
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Civilizing the City: Socialist Ruins and Urban Renewal in Central Vietnam
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 437–470.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Christina Schwenkel The shift to “market socialism” has brought rapid and profound changes to urban landscapes in Vietnam. Focusing on the fate of socialist architecture and urban design under contemporary urban redevelopment and renewal plans, this essay explores the transformation of Vinh City...
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Rendering Infant Abandonment Technical and Moral: Expertise, Neoliberal Logics, and Class Differentiation in Ho Chi Minh City
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 497–526.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of the transnational movement of children reflect both broader neoliberal ideologies of family and selfhood and late socialist anxieties about class differentiation. Child welfare professionals, the media, and casual observers in Ho Chi Minh City explain rising adoption rates as due to the desperation, ignorance...
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Urban Mediations in Hong Kong Contemporary Art: Notes on A Very Good City and Local Orientation
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positions (2004) 12 (3): 733–758.
Published: 01 August 2004
...Alice Ming Wai Jim 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Urban Mediations in Hong Kong Contemporary Art:
Notes on A Very Good City and Local Orientation
Alice Ming Wai Jim
Over the last decade, contemporary art in Hong Kong, informed by travel-
(ing...
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Place, Identity, and Social Movements: Shequ and Neighborhood Organizing in Taipei City
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positions (2005) 13 (2): 379–410.
Published: 01 May 2005
...Ya-Chung Chuang 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Place, Identity, and Social Movements:
Shequ and Neighborhood Organizing in Taipei City
Ya-Chung Chuang
Introduction: An Urban Legend
One summer afternoon in June 1995, a college student on the way home after...
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Metropolis Ecologies: Yin Xiuzhen’s Parallel Cities
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positions (2020) 28 (1): 145–175.
Published: 01 February 2020
... Portable Cities series that uses fabric architecture to convey her impressions of world cities, to her latest “ecoengineering” projects that provide contemplative spaces for viewers to temporarily inhabit—delineate the career trajectory of an individual female artist establishing her position within...
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Ho Chi Minh City's Beauty Regime: Haptic Technologies of the Self in the New Millennium
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 473–493.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Nina Hien Through an often seemingly contradictory system of market socialism in Vietnam and specifically within the economic capital of Ho Chi Minh City, how may the ways in which people have been using photography and its practices since Ðổi mới (Renovation) elucidate modes of neoliberalism...
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Seoul and Singapore as “New Asian Cities”: Literature, Urban Transformation, and the Concentricity of Power
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positions (2011) 19 (1): 193–215.
Published: 01 February 2011
...Jini Kim Watson This article examines literature from Korea and Singapore during the decades of rapid industrial and urban expansion following World War II. Using the concept of the “New Asian City,” the author argues that the growth of the cities behind these apparent “miracle economies” needs...
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From Space to Location
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positions (2017) 25 (1): 9–28.
Published: 01 February 2017
...Moinak Biswas This article considers a possible logic of evolution in Indian cinema, which rests on the movement from space as stage of action, imbued with value, to a multiplication of secularized intermediary spaces. The encounter with the city—a defined geography and grid—made its own...
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Capturing World-Class Urbanism through Modal Governance in Saigon
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positions (2017) 25 (4): 669–692.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Hun Kim As the references of the world-class city pivot from traditional centers of finance in the West to include an ascendant Asia, cities dependent on foreign investment must modulate their governance to capture these flows of capital and urban development expertise. This article examines how...
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“From Dance Bars to the Streets”: Moral Dispossession and Eviction in Mumbai
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 205–230.
Published: 01 February 2016
...Chaitanya Lakkimsetti Recent debates around bar dancing in Mumbai shed light on the connection between class, space, and intimate labor in a global city. Dance bars emerged as morally suspect spaces alongside the decline of Mumbai as an industrial city and its development as a global financial...
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The Suppressed in the Modern Urbanscape: Cultural Difference and Film in Singapore
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positions (2012) 20 (4): 983–1007.
Published: 01 November 2012
... relationship to increasingly elitist capitalist development—they constitute a geography that indicates sociocultural difference. The filmmakers, in attempting to map an urban space capable of yielding knowledge of nonelite people, also attempt to delineate the interiority of a major part of Singapore's city...
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Traveling Chinatowns: Mobility of Urban Forms and Asia in Circulation
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positions (2017) 25 (4): 693–716.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Sujin Eom Moving beyond the actual and theoretical terminus of bounded cities, this article tracks routes by which particular urban forms and ideas have traveled through cities and intersected with the shifting dynamics of the political economy in the Asia Pacific region. It provides a comparative...
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