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positions (2023) 31 (2): 403–429.
Published: 01 May 2023
...-specific social and political context, the article's discussion goes beyond the call for a “literary turn” in anthropology. Instead, it argues that for scholars who are serious about understanding the emotional cost of social inequality in China, seeking partnership with China's subaltern writers...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 377–407.
Published: 01 May 2022
... to participate in terms of travel and costs have been lowered. Many of them are from peripheral cities outside of Seoul who face more spatial, class, and education-related inequalities than metropolitan youth. Their circumstances demonstrate the ways in which class stratification becomes extended...
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positions (2015) 23 (3): 515–543.
Published: 01 August 2015
..., as it fails to directly address structural inequalities and fails to acknowledge the fact that youths' novelty has become the new engine of future capitalist accumulation in postreform China. Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 new media youth culture labor politics subjectivity...
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 303–332.
Published: 01 February 2016
...
decided to pursue gestational surrogacy in India. Indian surrogacy appealed
to the couple in part because of the relatively low costs and also because they
could avoid the long waiting periods and bureaucratic processes associated...
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 155–177.
Published: 01 February 2016
... of
US luxury hotels, Rachel Sherman found that consent to extreme inequal-
ity between hospitality workers and their customers took two forms. First,
hotel workers considered themselves as morally and culturally superior to
customers. Second...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 219–243.
Published: 01 May 2022
... of children and youth in the literature on Asian migration, Children's Geography in 2018 published another special issue that focused specifically on the emotional responses of South and Southeast Asian children to their experiences of migration. Our special issue builds on these previous discussions...
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 497–526.
Published: 01 May 2012
..., or emotional inadequacies of poor, rural single mothers who abandon their children. Such claims about maternal unfitness are part of a growing neoliberal tendency in Vietnam to render the family and reproduction technical problems to be solved through the application of scientific expertise. Although rendering...
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 45–69.
Published: 01 February 2016
... at
migrant women’s intimate re/productive contributions to these three “inti-
mate industries”? Their reproductive labor in each sector, I argue below, is
obtained at low cost or no cost because of the type of activity and the way in
which...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 507–521.
Published: 01 May 2023
... for adults to collect. The cheap ones cost about a thousand yuan, but the expensive ones are worth a worker's entire annual salary. Designer bags, foods, cosmetics, luxury cars, cell phones, games . . . all this stuff fills up every nook and cranny and nobody, rich or poor, can escape it. The way that sports...
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 17–43.
Published: 01 February 2016
... city of Bangalore. The authors argue that the affective labor of call center agents is service work but that it takes the form of intimate labor provided at a distance. While intimacy implies a proximity that may be physical, corporeal, emotional, and/or geographical, the affective labor...
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 257–280.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Francisco Benitez Using the hit movies Kailangan kita ( I Need You , 2002) and Milan (2004) as examples, this essay explores how Philippine commercial film mediates the affective and emotional labor required to maintain flows of out-migration, despite narrative trajectories that uphold a final...
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positions (2017) 25 (4): 769–794.
Published: 01 November 2017
... regimes. Thus, the
practice and politics of humanitarianism are firmly entrenched in a “dichot-
omizing paradigm defined by relationships of difference” (Aijazi 2014: 46;
Kapoor 2008: 42). Accordingly, empathy and solidarity, two emotional claims...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 379–402.
Published: 01 May 2023
... Foxconn social factory rural-urban divide social media alienation The People's Republic of China has been characterized as the “world's factory” for several decades. This label has survived despite the relocation of many factories to other countries due to rising labor costs and workforce...
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positions (1999) 7 (3): 667–696.
Published: 01 August 1999
... samples to wholesalers and retailers. In I 968, after sell-
ing all the clothes they had brought, some Koreans started to manufacture
women’s clothing (chepum).In those days Korean clothes, because they were
of better quality, cost three...
Journal Article
positions (1995) 3 (3): 728–758.
Published: 01 August 1995
... that it was not one
of those smiles that was used to hide the opposite emotion.
Secretary Wu then came over to tell me about Joseph Rock, the Austrian
American botanist-ethnologist, who had lived in this area for many years...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 303–331.
Published: 01 May 2023
... and bones. This started my career of writing amid the workshop machines. I would write when I was tired and when I was sad, write when life filled me with emotion and when it made me doubt everything. Once this habit of writing developed I could not rein it in, to the point where for a dozen years it became...
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 807–835.
Published: 01 November 2015
... and contradictions of the rescue narrative illuminate how the very problems that transnational adoption putatively resolves—those of displacements wrought by war, global inequality, uneven development, reproductive injustice, severed kinship, and gendered racial hierarchy—loop back in disturbing and unending...
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positions (2003) 11 (1): 241–257.
Published: 01 February 2003
... and the routes, geographies, and imaginaries mapped
by these flows and by new migratory movements. Studies have focused on in-
creased inequalities, on the emergence of new centers and peripheries, as well
as on local creativities and resistance. Postcolonial...
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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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positions (1997) 5 (2): 357–389.
Published: 01 May 1997
... took the form of state capitalism and was
achieved at the cost of enormous social problems, including the widening of
class gaps and the furthering of the proletarization of the underprivileged
class.12
In South...
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