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Calculating Needs and Prescribing Properties: Chaiqian and the Commensuration of Value at Nanjing's Urban Edge
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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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“When It's Dark in the East, It's Light in the West”: Lifelong Venturing and Accelerated Temporality in Beijing's Urban Villages
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 595–617.
Published: 01 August 2022
..., if not the dominant, factor shaping their livelihood and experience: frequent, unpredictable demolition of urban villages led by government-corporate coalitions for economic and political purposes is responsible for much of this spatial temporality. Many are forced to relocate their businesses and families time...
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“Snail Households”: Containerization of Migrant Housing on Shanghai's Fringe
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 549–570.
Published: 01 August 2022
... collection station inside Settlement A, June 2016. Photograph taken by the author. Tan's family moved again in December 2017 because the land of Settlement A was taken back for some municipal infrastructural project. On the third day of no electricity or water supply, they relocated to another...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 411–427.
Published: 01 August 2022
... of either resistance or complicity vis-à-vis the state. Mengqi Wang insightfully examines the emergence of such spaces of contestation and ambiguity through an ethnographic analysis of demolition and relocation projects, known as chaiqian 拆迁, at Nanjing's urban fringes. In chaiqian , planners...
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Grassroots Perspectives on Relocation: Threats and Opportunities
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positions (2014) 22 (3): 661–689.
Published: 01 August 2014
... and
toward those whose extension projects were seen to have jeopardized the
chances of investors targeting the area to establish industries.
Predictably, views on house demolition, compensation, and their morality
depended on villagers’ relative...
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Civilizing the City: Socialist Ruins and Urban Renewal in Central Vietnam
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 437–470.
Published: 01 May 2012
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organizations subsequently described the project as a failed socialist experi-
ment and called for its demolition and replacement with private nonsubsi-
dized housing (see g.
Not unlike colonial constructs of “backwards” colonies,57 public discourse...
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Seoul and Singapore as “New Asian Cities”: Literature, Urban Transformation, and the Concentricity of Power
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positions (2011) 19 (1): 193–215.
Published: 01 February 2011
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a comparative lens that departs from typical studies of Singaporean litera-
ture, within Anglophone postcolonial literary studies, and South Korean lit-
erature, within East Asian studies. This is part of a larger interdisciplinary
project in which I...
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Running and Reading Remnant Danwei Walls in China's Postsocialist City
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positions (2023) 31 (3): 677–708.
Published: 01 August 2023
... and the conditions of many of the units very poor. This poor condition is often cited as the main reason why residents are relocated and the old blocks are torn down, as explained and evidenced in case study 2. From a mere financial perspective, it is often advantageous to redevelop the sites and rehouse...
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The Audiovisual Turn of Recent Korean Documentary Cinema: The Time-Image, Place, and Landscape
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positions (2022) 30 (1): 189–216.
Published: 01 February 2022
... ( 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 and relocation of its residents, and the struggle of the residents against these processes. Moon uses many of the film's shots...
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Locating Family Portraits: Everyday Images from 1970s China
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positions (2010) 18 (3): 671–693.
Published: 01 August 2010
... of “everyday life,” idealized workers
and peasants, sports, parades, and massive building projects. The magazine
employed a range of photographic styles, from straightforward and seem-
ingly factual representations of people and events to extreme close...
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North Korea's Vinalon City: Industrialism as Socialist Everyday Life
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positions (2014) 22 (4): 809–836.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., and Rajin), Hamhŭng’s Hŭngnam
District was hit with both incendiary and demolition bombs from the
beginning of the war. From a report by the then Industry Minister Chŏng
Ilryong, we know that most factories critical for export-oriented products...
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The Battle of Representations: Gazing at the Peace Monument or Comfort Women Statue
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positions (2020) 28 (2): 363–387.
Published: 01 May 2020
... moved and thus vol- unteered to design the cenotaph. While contemplating possible designs for it, Kim and his sculptor wife, Kim Seo- kyung were told that there were constant efforts by the Japanese government to derail the project. Out of indignation, they decided to change the memorial from a cenotaph...
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Making Time: Historic Preservation and the Space of Nationality
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positions (1994) 2 (2): 177–249.
Published: 01 May 1994
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Terms slip and slide the moment talk about nations begins. One well-inten-
tioned response is striving to standardize concepts of nation, nationality,
and nationalism through a search for their essences. That project cannot
succeed because...