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Rethinking the Political Economy of Development in Mao's China
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positions (2021) 29 (4): 809–834.
Published: 01 November 2021
... available documentation with the aim of comprehending the economic practices of Mao's China on their own terms. Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 political economy PRC history socialist development state capitalism Cold War If someone publicly declares today that China failed...
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The Labor of Cute: Net Idols, Cute Culture, and the Digital Economy in Contemporary Japan
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positions (2015) 23 (3): 487–513.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Gabriella Lukacs This essay analyzes how the digital media economy harnesses young people's search for meaningful work to develop new apparatuses and mechanisms of extracting value from activities that are not typically recognized as work. Drawing on interviews with net idols and an analysis...
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Asian Boundaries, Documentary Regimes, and the Political Economy of the Personal
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positions (2012) 20 (1): 211–239.
Published: 01 February 2012
... to be analyzed historically as well as opened up through a continuous rethinking of Asia and the racialized relationship among nationality, state, and international orders. Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Asian Boundaries, Documentary Regimes, and the Political Economy of the Personal
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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
... of PEPFAR. Building on literature concerning global humanitarian intervention, I argue that in Vietnam HIV/AIDS prevention and control operates within what I call an “economy of virtue,” the general form in which neoliberal technologies and logics are being incorporated as rational, technical, scientific...
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Kim Ki-Duk's Cinema of Cruelty: Ethics and Spectatorship in the Global Economy
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positions (2007) 15 (1): 65–90.
Published: 01 February 2007
...Steve Choe Duke University Press 2007 Kim Ki-duk’s Cinema of Cruelty: Ethics and Spectatorship in the Global Economy
Steve Choe
The Ethical Question
I first saw Kim Ki-duk’s sixth feature film, Address Unknown (Suchwiin
bulmyeong; 2001...
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Crying Songs and Their Fans: The Material and Affective Economy of Taiwanese Opera, 1945–1975
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positions (2017) 25 (3): 469–505.
Published: 01 August 2017
.... Copyright 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Taiwan Taiwanese Opera fandom women affective economy References Adrian Bonnie . 2003 . Framing the Bride: Globalizing Beauty and Romance in Taiwan's Bridal Industry . Berkeley : University of California Press . Bacon-Smith...
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In the Womb of the Global Economy: Anak and the Construction of Transnational Imaginaries
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 551–579.
Published: 01 May 2011
..., national fantasy, and infantilized citizenship as ideological tropes that resolve the film's representation of prescribed feminine virtue, anxiety, melancholy, and maternal sacrifice. These discourses are constitutive of an invaginated visual economy that derives its conditions of possibility from...
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What to Expect When You're Expecting: The Affective Economies of Consuming Surrogacy in India
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 281–302.
Published: 01 February 2016
.... The market, however, is an exorcist. First world families, replete with genetically descended babies, are possible only through exorcising the laboring bodies of working-class Indian surrogate mothers. What to Expect When You’re Expecting:
The Affective Economies of Consuming Surrogacy in India...
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Heterogenesis and the Affective Economies of Catastrophes
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positions 11626801.
Published: 27 February 2025
... and films assist this statist drive as they generate a common affective economy of suffering and national overcoming, not only to elicit the emotional labor of sympathy for those affected but also to nationalize the experiences of distraught individuals and specific localities. Closely reading two recently...
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Depoliticization Through Cultural Policy and Intellectual Property Rights: The Case of Lijiang
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positions (2013) 21 (4): 885–919.
Published: 01 November 2013
..., a tourist area, as an example to show how national cultural policy and global IPR overlap in the local economy. I also demonstrate how this history escapes Aihwa Ong's theorization of “exception,” as the related global and state interests converge not at areas of exception but at the heart of numerous local...
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The Macho Machine: Male Sexual Commodification in Philippine Realist Film
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 347–364.
Published: 01 May 2011
... on cultural and socio-sexual relations among gendered and sexed publics in the Philippines, and how this is configured in a political economy that privileges Filipino masculinity as a “stabilizing term” in relation to a tripartite relation between “bisexual” men, heterosexual women, and homosexual men...
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Eating Out in Contemporary Hanoi: Middle-Class Food Practices, Capitalist Transformations, and the Late-Socialist Good Life
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 49–67.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Arve Hansen Abstract Vietnam's embrace of the Leninist-capitalist hybrid known as the socialist market economy has led to a number of food transformations. These include increasing food imports, heavy investment by powerful domestic and foreign actors in food production and retailing...
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“Flat Surface” as Material Metaphor: “Bad” Cover Design, “Good” Storytelling, and Post-Fordist Sensibility in Chinese Web Novels
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positions (2024) 32 (3): 655–684.
Published: 01 August 2024
... with “flat surface,” this essay interprets the popular fascination with flatness as a symptom of China's alignment with ubiquitous computing in its transition to a post-Fordist cultural economy when the world is increasingly conceived as a flat horizon. The author first exhibits a selection of spoof covers...
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Between Two Funerals: Zombie Temporality and Media Ecology in Japan
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positions (2021) 29 (2): 291–317.
Published: 01 May 2021
... levels. The article concludes that death and reanimation across media channels point to a new rhythmic temporal regime. Characters are now mortal but cannot die, doomed to become eternally wandering media‐mix zombies. The article relates this media economy linked to themes of death and animation...
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China's Beauty Proletariat: The Body Politics of Hegemony in a Walmart Cosmetics Department
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 155–177.
Published: 01 February 2016
... of women flock to retail beauty counters where they consult with cosmetics sales agents about how to best enhance their appearance so as to ensure their place in the labor market. This research examines the workers of China's beauty economy through a case study of rural migrant cosmetics sales...
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Transnational Cultural Production and the Politics of Moribund Masculinity
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positions (2008) 16 (3): 661–688.
Published: 01 August 2008
... the symbolic reserve in the case of a Korean patriarch, Chŏng Chu-yŏng, whose death generates the myth of national genius. The preservation of the symbolic value that becomes possible through death as a meaning-making event is translated into the economy of the virtual that sustains the capitalist material...
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Risk, Incorporated: Dr. Love and Mr. Money
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positions (2017) 25 (3): 595–629.
Published: 01 August 2017
... and private affects and interests. The consequences of such transactions for both financial economies and desiring economies are risk, uncertainty, and insurance—formal and diegetic concerns that have come to dominate cultural production in India today. Reading markets as “affect-ed,” and affects...
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The Neoliberal Production of a “Culture of Poverty” in a Korean Migrant Enclave in Northeast China
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positions (2018) 26 (3): 516–546.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Mun Young Cho How do recent transnational encounters in East Asia help us explore the condition of poverty amidst increasingly unpredictable global and national political economy? Against a backdrop of East Asian “postmiracle” times, this article sheds light on the precarity of South Korean...
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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
..., chuangdang 闯荡 (venturing) as a life project that either opposes or extends dagong has been neglected in scholarly studies. Venturing refers to a spatiotemporal condition defined by the uniqueness of urban villages where rural migrants participate in the informal economy on the urban fringes and attach...
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Dancing and Rapping the Good Life: Sharing Aspirations and Values in Vietnamese Hip-Hop
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 89–105.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Sandra Kurfürst Abstract Rap and hip-hop's diverse dance styles have been practiced in Vietnam since the 1990s, shortly after the country's integration into the world economy. What started out as a sphere of popular culture dominated by men was soon appropriated by female artists. The female rapper...
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