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positions (2024) 32 (1): 49–67.
Published: 01 February 2024
... of capitalist actors in late-socialist foodscapes as cheap food is enabled by intensified animal slaughter and the deep structural inequalities produced by Vietnam's compressed capitalism. [email protected] Copyright 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 street food consumption middle class...
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positions (2011) 19 (1): 193–215.
Published: 01 February 2011
... to be understood in terms of postcoloniality, that is, a complex relation between the colonial histories of Japan and England, domestic authoritarianism, and the productive imperatives of global capitalism. Reading novellas by Cho Se-hŭi and Goh Poh Seng, the essay shows how such texts foreground both the general...
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positions (1993) 1 (3): 585–606.
Published: 01 August 1993
... ethnic diversity-all within a highly
compressed space.’
Susan Stewart suggests that in the social space of the miniature, its
diminutiveness does not correspond to a “reduction of significance” but is
emblematic...
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 705–733.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., swollen, and naked, save for the heavy compression bandages taped around her head and along her arms from shoulder to elbow and her legs from pelvis to thighs. Blue popped veins cross her bare breasts, the bottom of each nipple lined with surgical tape. Just below her exposed stomach are bruises from...
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positions (2014) 22 (1): 71–101.
Published: 01 February 2014
..., deep saturation of consumer
capitalism, and democratic consolidation have dramatically brightened the
social-political landscape, it appears.
Lightness, however, is a play on perception. The “Daewoo Struggle”
(Daewoo...
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positions (2024) 32 (2): 341–369.
Published: 01 May 2024
... follow David Harvey's ( 1990 ) conceptualization of time-space compression and the multiple contradictions embodied in the spatial logic of capital accumulation. A spectacle of infrastructures, glittering in the age of monopoly capitalism, informs a narrative counter to Marx's (1858: 539) “annihilation...
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positions (2008) 16 (2): 457–482.
Published: 01 May 2008
... conceals the anxieties, fears,
and other negative affects that express the harsh underside of transnational
capitalism.2 Nowhere is this commercialization of emotion more obvious
than in the marketing of multiculturalism and racial difference...
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positions (2015) 23 (3): 437–462.
Published: 01 August 2015
..., and overworked.
The fact that highly motivated young people end up having to beg for food
is symptomatic of the cruel social costs accrued by the violently compressed
process of economic development in postwar South Korea.
positions...
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positions (2020) 28 (1): 145–175.
Published: 01 February 2020
... affect the way things go. To make something new out of preserved old things is one way of mak- ing changes; to mourn for old things thoughtlessly discarded by others with a public memorial is another. In Feidu (The Ruined Capital; 1996) (fig. 3), Yin staged such a memorial for the rapidly vanishing...
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positions (2004) 12 (3): 667–686.
Published: 01 August 2004
... space.
What characterizes Birth of a Star is its lack of optical, illusionistic depth.
The foreground and background are compressed together, although the
totality of this compression is rejected by the candy-colored bubbles...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 507–521.
Published: 01 May 2023
... and the lack of freedom reduces individuals to atoms, compressing their living and mental space. It's like the concept of alienation in Marx's Das Kapital . The workers that live in Picun are freer. They don't live in dormitories inside the factory and have more control over their own space and time. One...
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positions (2000) 8 (2): 389–421.
Published: 01 May 2000
... children are
caught up in transnational flows of human capital. Moreover,insofar as
China adoption makes possible the formation of interracial families,these
Internet discussions have become an important site from which to consider...
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positions (2024) 32 (4): 895–916.
Published: 01 November 2024
... are much harder to separate from each other. Second, reproduction implies preservation—for example, preserving class status across generations (through the conversion of forms of capital or the securing of wealth). This captures part of the phenomenon but not the rejection of one's existing lifestyle...
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positions (2017) 25 (4): 645–667.
Published: 01 November 2017
... University Press 2017 inter-Asian urbanism Phnom Penh speculation property References Appel Hannah . 2012 . “Offshore Work: Oil, Modularity, and the How of Capitalism in Equatorial Guinea.” American Ethnologist 39 , no. 4 : 692 – 709 . Barta Patrick . 2008 . “Tamed...
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positions (2006) 14 (1): 37–66.
Published: 01 February 2006
... policy because the nation’s
homeless were centered in the capital. During my fieldwork period, I acted
not only as an anthropologist, but also as an assistant to the Seoul Commit-
tee on Unemployment Issues, created in response to the crisis...
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positions (2013) 21 (1): 133–160.
Published: 01 February 2013
... that open up the conceptual and practical problems of imperial nationalism, Marxist historicism, and universality. The first part discusses Sŏ's early work on the contradictory character of the intellect under capitalism and his idealization of the laboring human. The second part addresses Sŏ's so-called...
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positions (2020) 28 (4): 701–727.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press . Chang Kyung-Sup . 1999 . “ Compressed Modernity and Its Discontents: South Korean Society in Transition .” Economy and Society 28 , no. 1 : 30 – 55 . Cho Heekyoung . 2016 . “ The Webtoon...
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positions (2008) 16 (1): 189–219.
Published: 01 February 2008
... of capital
flows is a high priority. This would help relieve the compression of private
consumption that comes with the massive swing to a current account sur-
plus. Restoring capital flows can only be done by reactivating the econo...
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positions (2019) 27 (4): 687–711.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of the piece would perhaps make more sense when read in Sichuan dialect, or at least in Sichuan- accented Mandarin. This reinforces, largely unconsciously, that the text is oriented toward the viewer of earthquake coverage, rather than toward the victims of the earthquake; these differences compress...
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positions (2024) 32 (3): 573–600.
Published: 01 August 2024
... by Naishan Cheng 程乃珊 and Zhou Qinglin 周清霖, 15 – 26 . Shanghai : Xuelin chubanshe . Chen Yuxian 陳毓賢 . 1997 . Zhengquan shichang rumen 證券市場入門 ( A Beginner's Book for the Stock Market ). Nanjing : Nanjing daxue chubanshe . Crary Jonathan . 2013 . 24/7: Late Capitalism...
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