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The Imperishables: Somatic Remediation, Femininity, and Plasticity in Ōshima Nagisa's Urban Critique
positions (2024) 32 (2): 287–314.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Junnan Chen Abstract This essay probes the understudied relationship between the hypermediated urban environment and the coding of femininity in the late 1960s and 1970s Japan. Through reading Ōshima Nagisa's Man Who Left His Will on Film ( 1970 ), this essay explores the unique gender dynamics...
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positions (2014) 22 (1): 7–39.
Published: 01 February 2014
... into a semblance of normality, but such normality conforms precisely to the very patriarchal codes that naturalized the institutionalization of Japan's military rape in the first place. Byun's cinematography suggests a recuperation of comfort women, not in the interests of a normalized heterosexuality...
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positions (2014) 22 (1): 203–236.
Published: 01 February 2014
... the oftentimes opaque global economic coding of the rhetoric of stakeholding in which capitalist market praxis is philosophically configured as a means to the ends of moral governance and progressive change. Copyright 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 The Darfur Olympics:
Global Citizenship and the 2008...
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positions (2016) 24 (3): 621–651.
Published: 01 August 2016
... of the Thai Criminal Code; the logic of the courts which convicted them; and the public discourse surrounding both trials. Developing sedition as a lens of comparison and a strategy of analysis, their actions are examined as transgressive in three intersecting and overlapping registers: law, dissent in excess...
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positions (1996) 4 (2): 185–215.
Published: 01 May 1996
..., the traditional Chinese view of the ideal relationship between government and people is analogous to that which should exist between parents and children or between a shepherd and his flock. The actions of both parties should be in strict accordance with a moral code, under which the rulers of a society, who...
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positions (2019) 27 (1): 175–207.
Published: 01 February 2019
... production and life, understood as code, has profound ramifications for the organization of the humanities, which are still indebted to very powerful presuppositions not only about species difference (such as the difference between human and animal) but also about the way in which species difference...
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positions (2021) 29 (3): 495–521.
Published: 01 August 2021
... in the new Civil Code of 1960. Multiple legal reforms were attempted since the 1970s to promote domestic adoptions, but change was slow. This article argues that the highly restrictive nature of adoption laws in South Korea produced an adoption regime that existed largely outside of the legal realm...
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positions (2017) 25 (3): 565–593.
Published: 01 August 2017
... in contemporary Japan. These street usurers point to a desire to escape a foundational ethical code of capitalism: the obligation to reciprocate. Yet this break from debt morality requires a redemption that involves theft, slavery, and death. These manga comment on the forms of debt in Japan's consumer-driven...
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 335–345.
Published: 01 May 2011
... who is made to bear the exceptional gift of otherworldliness as well as the stigma of being bared as false and fictitious. This double coding becomes a productive site of critique of the miracle in the various unveilings of history in film and social life. Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press...
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 463–498.
Published: 01 May 2011
... interestingly poised is that the representations do not necessarily dialogue, more so ending in a failure of engagement. Partly coded in myth making, the representation of the self in films and binational polity is distinguished from the authority of the other, initially foregrounding then later abjecting...
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positions (2011) 19 (1): 159–191.
Published: 01 February 2011
... the dress codes of female protagonists on stage and screen illuminates how the North Korean state has set out to craft an ideal female body by constantly negotiating revolutionary masculinity and traditional femininity. Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Dressed to Kill: Women’s Fashion...
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 229–254.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Youngmin Choe Abstract This article explores how and why fraudulence and deception get coded as feminine in Korean politics and popular culture. Focusing on the processes whereby deception gets conflated with the female body, it examines filmic articulations of physical and rhetorical attacks...
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positions (2021) 29 (3): 607–632.
Published: 01 August 2021
... ought to be conceived as a problem with sex incorporating both “substance” and the practice of having sex. He explores these limits of family through a broadening understanding of family law in Korea, focusing on the anti-sodomy clause in the Military Penal Code and mandatory HIV/AIDS testing...
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 489–510.
Published: 01 May 2010
... of sexuality and still understood “homosexual-
ity” as “an acquired aberration or a temporary disease which should be elim-
inated,” and supported his argument with the fact that “the criminal code
in China, to this day, does not have a specific law...
Journal Article
positions (1994) 2 (2): 446–463.
Published: 01 May 1994
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tory itself is a master code implicit in modern political thought. Historians
are comfortable with the talk of difference so long as the talk does not
threaten the very idea of history itself. This produces a second-order prob-
lem...
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positions (2021) 29 (3): 581–606.
Published: 01 August 2021
... ). But during the Meiji period, the influence of legal codes from Europe encouraged a consolidation of rules that came to favor a particular form of Japanese family. The ie seido, an ideal household pattern, centered on a male head of household and rooted in the principle of continuity through the generations...
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positions (1994) 2 (2): 406–416.
Published: 01 May 1994
... does the Chinese Com-
munist cadre compete with powerful Western icons for our attention;
Tseng’s photo image also creates new codes that compete with the familiar
codes of Western expectation, in order to defamiliarize...
Journal Article
positions (1999) 7 (1): 71–94.
Published: 01 February 1999
... contract, which children repay when they support the parents in
their old age. . . . This relationship . . . also extends to the emotions and
the moral code.. . . The contract doesn’t need both parties to recognize it;
this is what...
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positions (1994) 2 (2): v–x.
Published: 01 May 1994
...
why literary code and history narrative are best read together. Nguyen’s lit-
erary disavowal of post-Socialist commodification in everyday experience in
Vietnam, Zinoman says, cannot really register if the stories Nguyen writes
about...
Journal Article
positions (2021) 29 (3): 551–579.
Published: 01 August 2021
... mothers or two fathers were no different from those of other families, yet current laws denied important parental rights to the non–birth parent. The press release urged the government to revise the Civil Code to grant equal rights to LGBT families, concluding with an appeal to action on the basis...
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