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Freedom Markets: Consumption and Commerce across Human-Trafficking Rescue in Thailand

Elena Shih
positions (2017) 25 (4): 769–794.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-4188410
Published: 01 November 2017
...: Global Consumption and Representations of Slum Life.” Tourism Geographies 14 , no. 2 : 294 – 319 . Lloyd Rachel . 2012 . Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale: A Memoir . New York : Harper Perennial . Manning Richard . 2006 . “Will ‘Emerging...
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Yangzhou's “Mondernity”: Fashion and Consumption in the Early Nineteenth Century

Antonia Finnane
positions (2003) 11 (2): 395–425.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-11-2-395
Published: 01 May 2003
...Antonia Finnane 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Yangzhou’s “Mondernity”: Fashion and Consumption in the Early Nineteenth Century Antonia Finnane What does it mean to talk about “fashion” in a Chinese context? Presented with Chinese fashion...
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Nostalgia for a (Different) Asian Modernity: Media Consumption Of“asia” In Japan

Koichi Iwabuchi
positions (2002) 10 (3): 547–573.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-10-3-547
Published: 01 August 2002
...Koichi Iwabuchi 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Nostalgia for a (Different) Asian Modernity: Media Consumption of “Asia” in Japan Koichi Iwabuchi Over the 1990s Japan’s gradual tilt toward Asia was clearly visible. Follow- ing a long retreat after...
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Cute Logics of the Multicultural and the Consumption of the Vietnamese Exotic in Japan

Ashley Carruthers
positions (2004) 12 (2): 401–429.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-12-2-401
Published: 01 May 2004
...Ashley Carruthers 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Cute Logics of the Multicultural and the Consumption of the Vietnamese Exotic in Japan Ashley Carruthers The idea for this essay came to me while interviewing a Vietnamese jour- nalist and small...
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Questioning the Relationship between Consumption and Exchange:TheatreWorks' Flying Circus Project, December 2000

Helena Grehan
positions (2004) 12 (2): 565–586.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-12-2-565
Published: 01 May 2004
...Helena Grehan 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Questioning the Relationship between Consumption and Exchange: TheatreWorks’ Flying Circus Project, December 2000 Helena Grehan What Is the Flying Circus Project? Following our earlier research on the TheatreWorks...
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Redemption and Consumption: Depicting Culture in the 1990s

Dai Jinhua
positions (1996) 4 (1): 127–143.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-4-1-127
Published: 01 February 1996
...Dai Jinhua Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Commentary Redemption and Consumption: Depicting Culture in the 1990s Dai Jinhua Cultural Mao Zedong Of the social and cultural phenomena at the end of the 1980s and the begin...
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The Sinophone as an Uneven Experience of Time and Place: Translocal Media Consumption in Chinese-Speaking Malaysia

Ting-Fai Yu
positions (2024) 32 (4): 943–964.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-11306868
Published: 01 November 2024
..., it examines Chinese Malaysians’ consumption of Chinese-language media as an intergenerational experience, vis-à-vis the general shift from the popularity of Hong Kong media before 2000, toward media from the People’s Republic of China in the present. Second, by highlighting the unique position of Johor...
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The Macho Machine: Male Sexual Commodification in Philippine Realist Film

Reuben Ramas Cañete
positions (2011) 19 (2): 347–364.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-1331751
Published: 01 May 2011
... commodification in the sexual economy from which this documentation of Filipino homoerotica is taken, the gay bar. As a productive space for maleness and its consumption, the lives of these machos interact with the specific material conditions of a neoliberal sexual economy reemerging in the Philippines since...
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The Materiality of Intimacy in Wildlife Rehabilitation: Rethinking Ethical Capitalism through Embodied Encounters with Animals in Southeast Asia

Juno Salazar Parreñas
positions (2016) 24 (1): 97–127.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-3320065
Published: 01 February 2016
... commercial volunteers. These forms of intimacy include cleaning animal feces as well as gaining physical proximity and even tactile contact. At first glance, commercial volunteerism at such sites appears to convey the idea of ethical capitalism, which Slavoj Žižek describes as “consumption for a cause...
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Transperipheral Educational Mobility: Less Privileged South Korean Young Adults Pursuing English Language Study in a Peripheral City in the Philippines

Carolyn Areum Choi
positions (2022) 30 (2): 377–407.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-9573396
Published: 01 May 2022
... capital, compensatory middle-class consumption, and entrepreneurial inspiration that strategically and creatively seeks to challenge working-class migrants’ marginal positions within South Korea's highly stratified and increasingly neoliberal society. References Abelmann Nancy A. , Kwon Soo...
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“Kawaii” And “Moe” — Gazes, Geeks ( Otaku ), and Glocalization of Beautiful Girls ( Bishōjo ) in Hong Kong Youth Culture

Wai-hung Yiu, Alex Ching-shing Chan
positions (2013) 21 (4): 853–884.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2346032
Published: 01 November 2013
...Wai-hung Yiu; Alex Ching-shing Chan The popularity and circulation of Japanese manga bishōjo (“beautiful young girls”) (Japanese teenage girl comics), and its consumptive creations in forms of cosplays (public costume parades in anime characters), toy figures, and animes appropriated by the local...
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A Taste of Class: Manuals for Becoming Woman

Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Yi Zheng
positions (2009) 17 (3): 489–521.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2009-012
Published: 01 August 2009
... as an evacuated, reformed historicity (as in the exit of funu and the reentry of nuren ). These manuals of elite civility on bookshop shelves hint at the effort of becoming that characterizes contemporary Chinese identity. Place, gender, beauty, consumption, and memory are brought into a relation with one another...
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Representation, Distribution, and Formation of Sexuality in the Photography of Araki Nobuyoshi

Hagiwara Hiroko
positions (2010) 18 (1): 231–251.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2009-029
Published: 01 February 2010
..., is appropriated. The photographs for exhibition and publication are carefully selected. If our sexuality is formulated through exposure to sexual images, analyzing photographic work such as Araki's requires that we focus on the whole process from production to distribution and consumption. Duke University Press...
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Body Art in China: Yang Zhichao's Diary from a Psychiatric Ward

Giorgio Strafella, Daria Berg
positions (2023) 31 (3): 571–596.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-10441260
Published: 01 August 2023
... and popular culture, as both a reappropriated territory of self‐expression and an alienated object of consumption and surveillance. To do so, it discusses body art by Yang Zhichao 杨志超 (b. 1962), focusing in particular on a performance artwork titled Jiayuguan 嘉峪关 ( Jiayu Pass , 1999 – 2000) and its...
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Plugged into the Good Life: Living Electrically through the Ages in Urban Vietnam

Kirsten W. Endres
positions (2024) 32 (1): 27–47.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-10889934
Published: 01 February 2024
...Kirsten W. Endres Abstract With Vietnam's countrywide electrification rate approaching 100 percent, electricity has become ever more indispensable and essential to the quality of everyday life. The steady upsurge in household electricity consumption over the past years has been driven by a growing...
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Sound, Gender, and the Thing: Earphone and Miss Earphone in Shanghai Cinema, 1939–1949

Qilin Cao
positions (2025) 33 (1): 55–82.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-11497377
Published: 01 February 2025
...Qilin Cao Abstract This article argues that the earphone is a microcosm of the broader material and societal changes that occurred within the film translation industry in Republican Shanghai. As one of the acoustic devices that shaped the transmission and consumption of sounds in the modern world...
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Eating Out in Contemporary Hanoi: Middle-Class Food Practices, Capitalist Transformations, and the Late-Socialist Good Life

Arve Hansen
positions (2024) 32 (1): 49–67.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-10889947
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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Traveling Barbie: Indian Transnationality and New Consumer Subjects

Inderpal Grewal
positions (1999) 7 (3): 799–827.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7-3-799
Published: 01 August 1999
.... By focusing on consumers as active partici- pants in the construction of national, gendered, and classed subjectivities through consumption, this essay analyzes the new subjects of consumption created as a result of economic liberalization...
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Culture as Leisure and Culture as Capital

Jing Wang
positions (2001) 9 (1): 69–104.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-9-1-69
Published: 01 February 2001
... of any sort (socialist or liberalist), but the making of an egalitarian consumer public theoretically unmarred by vertical hierarchies, in short, participation in the democratic consumption of leisure culture. positions 9:1 Spring 2001...
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Contributors

positions (2013) 21 (4): 1019–1020.
Published: 01 November 2013
... 2013 Contributors Alex Ching-­shing Chan taught consumption culture and general issues of Hong Kong society in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Baptist University and City University...
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