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positions (2017) 25 (4): 717–743.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Seunghan Paek This article explores community in contemporary South Korea's commercially saturated urban environments by investigating a recent government-run city improvement project in which the entanglement of institutional power and local commercial forces created a peculiar form of community...
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positions (2013) 21 (1): 133–160.
Published: 01 February 2013
... “disguising” of his Marxist view of history behind a Hegelian logic of nation-state formation and discusses the problem of mimesis and representation in the inversion of Hegel. Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 So˘ In-sik’s Communism and the East Asian Community (1937 – 40)
Travis Workman...
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positions (2013) 21 (4): 987–1018.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Minh-Ha T. Pham This article draws together communications and media studies with feminist theory and refugee scholarship to closely consider Vietnamese-American subject and community formations from the reference point of sound and audition. Specifically, it examines the ways in which...
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positions (2016) 24 (2): 555–582.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., expressed their absolute and undivided loyalty toward the crown. The lower-/working-class Chinese either assimilated with the majority or faced persecution for sedition of all sorts—from republicanism and Bolshevism in Vajiravudh's reign to communism during the Cold War years. In reality, the Thai state's...
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positions (1995) 3 (2): 418–449.
Published: 01 May 1995
...Michael Dutton Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Dreaming of Better Times: ”Repetition with a Difference“
and Community Policing in China
Michael Dutton
Introduction
Zi Zhang asks: “Can one know what the future will hold in ten dynas...
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positions (2009) 17 (3): 591–616.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Luigi Tomba This article discusses the rhetoric and practices of China's middle-class “community building” ( shequ jianshe , as the campaign to reorganize urban residential communities that started in the late 1990s is called), and the role of suzhi (quality) in building models of “harmonious...
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 815–838.
Published: 01 November 2022
... refugees.” The second part focuses on the meaning of ethnic identity that the director pursues, offering insights into the crisis of community in the context of urbanization and globalization, or the “Korean dream.” The two types of border crossing—the crossing of North Koreans to China and the crossing...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 485–506.
Published: 01 May 2023
... (Renmin shiwu zhuquan 人民食物主权) in September 2019, introducing the “Village Song Project.” 1 Lü Tu is a social activist and sociologist based in Pinggu, a village northeast of Beijing, and her work focuses on the culture and rights of urban migrant workers, community building in the countryside...
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positions (2002) 10 (2): 471–502.
Published: 01 May 2002
...Parama Roy 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Reading Communities and Culinary Communities:
The Gastropoetics of the South Asian Diaspora
Parama Roy
Parables of Beginning
I begin this essay not with Madhur Jaffrey (who will assume a leading role...
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positions (2014) 22 (3): 721–740.
Published: 01 August 2014
... these villages and academia becomes increasingly inseparable. Situated between academia and the village itself, between words and things, intangible cultural heritage is actually the product of dialogues and debates between the academy and villagers, between scholars and rural residents. A community of knowledge...
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positions (2006) 14 (2): 373–404.
Published: 01 May 2006
...Heather Bowen-Struyk Duke University Press 2006 Rival Imagined Communities:
Class and Nation in Japanese Proletarian Literature
Heather Bowen-Struyk
It may seem a bit contrary to pursue the question of the nation in Japanese
proletarian...
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positions (2021) 29 (1): 21–45.
Published: 01 February 2021
... are produced, concentrated, and accumulated as well as how persons and communities might negotiate the imperial field. As such, these works engage the question of dialectical ethics in narrative. Reading Pineda, we see how individual experience may yield, through a specifically utopian impulse in narratives...
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positions (2021) 29 (4): 835–868.
Published: 01 November 2021
... to the “contemporary scene,” or acknowledge the importance of local officials. Notwithstanding that our definition of “grassroots” specifically describes “provincial, commune, county, and village officials” as important social actors; that we addressed and argued against understanding of the state as a monolithic...
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positions (2024) 32 (3): 713–744.
Published: 01 August 2024
..., designers going to the countryside, and industrial empowerment to construct “good cultural governance” or “good cultural taste,” the term personal writing as used here describes a type of avant-garde intervention that has sparked interest in vernacular communities. It provides a socially minded critique...
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in Barriers Faced by Returning Migrant Children in Vietnam: The Case of the Mekong Delta Region
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 1 Returning migrant children with temporary registration in the Vị Thắng commune. Unit: person. Source Created by the author with data from UBND xã Vị Thắng 2017 .
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positions (2018) 26 (4): 619–646.
Published: 01 November 2018
... technology of insurance would solve the social problem by reincorporating the poor into the national community and would transform the poor into thrifty, responsible subjects. Nevertheless, the supporters of private firms managed to stave off the creation of a public insurance company until 1916, when...
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positions (2013) 21 (1): 11–49.
Published: 01 February 2013
... national community. As a way of dialoguing with and thereby enriching Euro-centric debates on the place of racialized culture in the study of empire, this paper will show how attention to colonial sensibilities figured centrally in the government-general's avowed goal to “assimilate” colonized Koreans...
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positions (2015) 23 (1): 59–90.
Published: 01 February 2015
... of reception, or interconnected interpretive communities. To elaborate this idea, this article focuses on one of these events, the anti-Japanese protest of April 2005, and in conclusion, compares the reception of this event to the reactions to Visualizing Cultures website. Both events followed a familiar...
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positions (2009) 17 (2): 261–287.
Published: 01 May 2009
... of consciousness of the modern nation-state as well as the ground for subjectivation. Through such a discursive mode of psyche politics, a certain sense of community is engineered. We observe that the function of abjection operates in double directions: the internal effacement and the external exclusion. The locus...
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positions (2009) 17 (2): 289–314.
Published: 01 May 2009
... and national community membership emerged under the Guomindang (GMD) regime. The law confirmed male supremacy in the constitution of the national community by embracing married women's outsiderness and upholding the system of patrilineality. In the new millennium, legal reforms pursued by social movements have...
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