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positions (2022) 30 (3): 571–594.
Published: 01 August 2022
... of the year. This article examines key players in the demolitions, such as the chaierdai 拆二代 (rich-through-demolition), zhengfu 政府 (government), renmin 人民 (people), residents of the urban core, and evicted migrant workers. Looking at who benefits from the literal and metaphorical fruits of demolition reveals...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 501–521.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Mengqi Wang Abstract This article examines how local governments calculate and allocate compensation to displaced peasants in demolition-relocation projects, known as chaiqian 拆迁 (demolition and relocation projects), at the urban edge of eastern Nanjing. Based on twenty months of ethnographic...
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 437–470.
Published: 01 May 2012
...” and urban practices, and their eradication from the landscape of urban memory. Visual spectacles of demolition thus signify new aesthetic and economic regimes that link capitalist redevelopment and redesign to the formation of modern, prosperous, and “civilized” cities and citizens. Copyright 2012 by Duke...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 619–640.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Tzu-Chi Ou Abstract In late 2017, a tragic fire in southern Beijing led to a massive eviction and demolition campaign that drove out tens of thousands of rural migrant workers in bleak winter weather. While the evictions were widely covered by the mass media, few analyses examined the gongyu 公寓...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 549–570.
Published: 01 August 2022
... on ethnographic data collected between 2016 and 2018 in Shanghai. Such “snail households” living in removable cargo containers and prefabricated metal shelters represent a submissive coping mechanism in response to demolition and eviction, to reduce living cost and stay put on the urban fringe. This article...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 523–547.
Published: 01 August 2022
... migrants who flock to cities as precarious laborers. This extended photo essay uses an urban village renewal project in the southern city Guangzhou to analyze the politics of eviction, demolition, resistance, and gentrification in light of the region's shift from low-value to high-tech industries. When...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 595–617.
Published: 01 August 2022
... would continue working in Beijing until he became physically unfit to do so. On moving day, Lao Qi stood outside his rented apartment in the urban village and told me that the impending demolition could halve his income. Yet, he continued with optimism, “I don't feel too bad about it. We knew...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 455–477.
Published: 01 August 2022
... In November 2017 a devastating fire in an apartment block in Daxing district of Beijing—the location of many urban villages which house the city's migrant population—claimed nineteen lives. The response by the Beijing government was an immediate round of urban village demolitions and the eviction of thousands...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 411–427.
Published: 01 August 2022
... China's socialist era, especially the legacy of the hukou , the household registration system, inform postsocialist and capitalist imaginaries in urban villages? The study of urban villages, we argue, offers new ways to map the politics of governance, labor extraction, demolition, dispossession...
Journal Article
positions (2014) 22 (2): 541–542.
Published: 01 May 2014
... a century of memories
embedded in two alleyway neighborhoods destined for demolition. Her current book proj-
ect, Utopian Ruins: A Memory Museum of the Mao Era, explores how memories of the 1950s
to the 1970s are mediated through...
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positions (2011) 19 (1): 193–215.
Published: 01 February 2011
...,
Eden District” lies in the shadow of a brick factory and is anything but
heavenly. Interspersed with flashbacks, the plot centers around the immi-
nent demolition of the family’s home by the city government for the con-
struction...
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positions (2011) 19 (1): 217–228.
Published: 01 February 2011
... and endings. Before
he had even seen Still Life, Perry Anderson said that Jia Zhangke is the
master of cinematic endings. The final scene of Still Life — walking in the
clouds — is a masterstroke: atop ruins, a worker continues with demolition...
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in The Dark Side of the Miracle: Spectacular and Precarious Accumulation in an Urban Village under Siege (A Photo Essay)
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 August 2022
Figure 2 Tong Lam, untitled (2015), from the series Where There Is No Room for Fiction . Light box. Prior to its urbanization in the 1980s, Xian Village was made up of picturesque farmlands and tranquil fishing ponds. After its partial demolition, the village began to look more like a scene
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positions (2010) 18 (3): 599–631.
Published: 01 August 2010
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and Europe.14
What this ambivalent sort of “photographic preservation” — a preserva-
tion that sometimes precedes and is complicit with the demolition of its
object — shares with Liang’s documentary work is its status as architectural...
Journal Article
positions (2005) 13 (2): 379–410.
Published: 01 May 2005
...
classes walked, as she did each day, through a neighborhood park. Since she
had been walking this route since childhood, she was shocked to see a newly
minted sign posted at the gates announcing the demolition of a section of
the park to make way...
Journal Article
positions (2005) 13 (1): 205–214.
Published: 01 February 2005
... of the previous forms of
possible application of egalitarian politics to the state, is in fact manifested both by the
hypertrophy of its military and repressive functions and apparatuses, and by the parallel
demolition of its civil capacities...
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positions (2022) 30 (1): 189–216.
Published: 01 February 2022
... of the traditional activist-oriented Korean independent films and videos, including Kim Dong-won's seminal Sanggye-dong Olympics ( Sanggye-dong ollimp'ik , 1988), predicated on participatory engagement with the issues caused by urban redevelopment, such as the demolition of an old town, the forced dislocation...
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positions (2014) 22 (3): 661–689.
Published: 01 August 2014
..., had also moved in with Erjie since her own house
in a neighboring village had already been selected for demolition.23 While
Erjie and her family despised those who opportunistically built extensions
in the hope for higher compensation, those...
Journal Article
positions (2012) 20 (1): 159–171.
Published: 01 February 2012
... Productions has also documented the massive demolition of
urban poor communities living along the railway tracks in the government’s
drive to upgrade the train system in Metro Manila. In the documentary
Riles – NHA Turnover Ceremonies Violent...
Journal Article
positions (2012) 20 (2): 405–434.
Published: 01 May 2012
... dân
đồng thuận?” (“Demolition and Compensation: How to Satisfy the People Việt báo (Viet
Daily), September Michael Waibel, Ronald Eckert, Michael Bose, and Volker Mar-
tin, “Housing for Low- Income Groups in Ho Chi Minh City...
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