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The Production of Everyday Space for Workers: The New Village Movement in China, 1919–1936
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 429–453.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Qian Zhu Abstract The idea of a “new village” first emerged in the years 1919–20 and was widely discussed by Chinese intellectuals, who advocated for its humanitarian and social justice purposes and its goal of constructing a new society. This article focuses on the new village movement in China...
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Freedom Markets: Consumption and Commerce across Human-Trafficking Rescue in Thailand
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positions (2017) 25 (4): 769–794.
Published: 01 November 2017
... and local activism, as well as long-term strategies for migrant rights or migrant integration. Copyright 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 critical humanitarianism sex work human trafficking market governance transnational social movements Thailand References Agustín Laura...
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From “the People” to “the Human”: HIV/AIDS, Neoliberalism, and the Economy of Virtue in Contemporary Vietnam
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 561–591.
Published: 01 May 2012
... is not a luxury,” wrote two critics,
“but rather a scienti c, moral, and political necessity.”53
The legislation, and the humanitarian and technoscienti c discourses
that complement it, illuminate a set of preoccupations that distinguish...
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Producing Global Adoptability of Special Needs Children in China
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 129–154.
Published: 01 February 2016
... by Western evangelical Christians that cared for special needs youth. In these homes, intimate reproductive and emotional labor practices that were inspired by first-world understandings of care “revalued” marginalized children and prepared them for middle-class lives abroad. The global humanitarian aid...
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Artists or Slave Laborers? Performing Uncapturability in Burkinabe Performers’ Labor Rights Struggle in South Korea
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positions (2020) 28 (2): 311–339.
Published: 01 May 2020
... . 2006 . “ The Other Revisited: Critical Afterthoughts .” Anthropological Theory 6 , no. 2 : 139 – 52 . Foucault Michel . 1967 . “Des Espace Autres” (“Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heteroto-pias”) , translated by Miskowiec Jay . web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/foucault1.pdf ( accessed...
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Guest Editors' Introduction: Inter-Asian Capital Circulations, Cultural Transformations, and Methodological Positions
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positions (2017) 25 (4): 633–644.
Published: 01 November 2017
...-Hsing . 2010 . Asia as Method: Towards Deimperialization . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Choo Hae Yeon . 2016 . Decentering Citizenship: Gender, Labor, and Migrant Rights in South Korea . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Fassin Didier . 2011 . Humanitarian...
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Archiving Facts and Documentary Films: Sites of Memorial Struggle for the October 6, 1976, Massacre in Thailand
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positions (2023) 31 (4): 893–918.
Published: 01 November 2023
... led to practices in participatory documentary‐making. Collectively, these efforts in archival practice and filmmaking give birth to an ethic of immediation in humanitarianism. Thailand's next generation is engaged in recalling memories of past state violence and questioning the present authoritarian...
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“The Ending Is Not an Ending At All”: On the Militarized and Gendered Diasporas of Korean Transnational Adoption and the Korean War
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 807–835.
Published: 01 November 2015
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tiny. The war brought appalling destruction, killing some 4 million people.
Hundreds of thousands of orphans were left wandering the streets seeking
food and shelter.” What began, then, as a militarized project renarrated as
“humanitarian...
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The Darfur Olympics: Global Citizenship and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games
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positions (2014) 22 (1): 203–236.
Published: 01 February 2014
... of athletes that used the Olympics platform
to criticize China’s involvement in Sudan. US Olympic Committee chair-
man Peter Ueberroth called Lomong “a terrific selection” and “a wonderful
statement.”6 This article explores how the 2008 Beijing...
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After the Invasion of Iraq
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positions (2005) 13 (1): 205–214.
Published: 01 February 2005
... affairs of other
states had already been trampled down by the wars of the 1990s—especially
the “humanitarian” war against Serbia—and are now being annihilated by
Pozzana and Russo After the Invasion of Iraq 207...
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Genealogies of NGO-ness: The Cultural Politics of a Global Buddhist Movement in Contemporary Taiwan
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positions (2009) 17 (2): 347–374.
Published: 01 May 2009
...
It is worth noting that Ciji has been practicing humanitarian services as
a lawful civil association in Taiwan since the 1960s — nearly four decades
before it “came out” as an NGO and before the term NGO and its counter
part NPO (nonprofit...
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Korea's “Vietnam Question”: War Atrocities, National Identity, and Reconciliation in Asia
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positions (2001) 9 (3): 621–635.
Published: 01 August 2001
... relationship with Vietnam and
the United States, forged in the context of the “American War,” is helping
to reveal the painfully contradictory and layered position of postcolonial
Korea.
How can Vietnam, as a site of critical inquiry...
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Barriers Faced by Returning Migrant Children in Vietnam: The Case of the Mekong Delta Region
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 301–321.
Published: 01 May 2022
... Vietnamese newspaper articles reported that elementary schools in the commune had accepted children without birth certificates as a humanitarian effort. These children attend classes as “nonenrollment students” ( học gửi ), meaning that they are not included in student lists and do not enjoy the same rights...
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Manufacturing Dissidence: Arts and Letters of North Korea's “Second Culture”
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 743–784.
Published: 01 November 2015
... nothing to fur-
nish critical historical context, much less performatively to implicate them
within a brutal history of US interventionism on the Korean peninsula.2
Instead, aimed at maximum visual horror, the drawings, video, and mock...
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The Refugee Soldier: A Critique of Recognition and Citizenship in the Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act of 1997
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positions (2012) 20 (3): 685–712.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Ma Vang This essay examines the Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act of 1997 to critically engage with the context of the “secret war” in Laos (1961–75) and the “refugee question.” In doing so, it explores the ways in which the state deploys the concept of citizenship: first, as a validation...
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Listening as a Labor of Love: Commerce, Community, and Little Saigon Radio
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positions (2013) 21 (4): 987–1018.
Published: 01 November 2013
... hope, futurity, and life are naturalized as coextensive.
The temporalization of hope, especially in relation to refugees, functions
as a device that transforms refugees from objects of humanitarian care and
concern to historical subjects...
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Forgotten Refugees and Erased “Multicultural” Subjects: The Vietnam War and South Korea's Subimperial Nation-Building
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positions (2023) 31 (3): 597–622.
Published: 01 August 2023
... form of subimperial gaze. As war induces movement of soldiers and refugees, war forges contacts among empire, subempire, and neocolonial subjects, not only on the battlefield but also in refugee camps. Providing a corrective view to the overly humanitarian or legalistic approaches taken in some...
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Modernity, Medicine, and Colonialism: The Contagious Diseases Ordinances in Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements
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positions (1998) 6 (3): 675–705.
Published: 01 August 1998
... of global trade and
economic expansion: modernization, in short, was critical in the picture of
these port colonies that was painted for public consumption. Medical con-
positions 6:3 Winter 1998 678...
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Asian Women in Reregionalization
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positions (2007) 15 (2): 285–318.
Published: 01 May 2007
... blueprints of order” (54) and the “constant creation of
civility” (55). Granting the indispensability of these institutions for regulat-
ing political conflict and disorder, even granting their legitimate claims to
radical humanitarianism...
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Neo-Geomancy and Real Estate Fever in Postreform Vietnam
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 405–434.
Published: 01 May 2012
... with a critical study of the structures impinging on Vietnamese real estate markets shows that seemingly bottom-up challenges to the state are in fact linked to much more top-down dynamics. The case of geomancy shows that analysis of individual actions must always pay attention to the way such actions are often...
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