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positions (2015) 23 (3): 487–513.
Published: 01 August 2015
.../reproductive labor. Second, this essay conceptualizes the net idols' production of cute culture as emotional labor and claims that the digital media economy has effectively expanded the practices through which value is extracted from women's unwaged labor far beyond the domestic sphere. Third, it demonstrates...
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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 (2015) 23 (3): 381–409.
Published: 01 August 2015
..., Japan, and South Korea gamble with the future of their younger population in order to secure their country's place in neoliberal globalization. Further, the introduction reviews pertinent literature on the developmental state, neoliberalism, affective/emotional labor, and postcapitalist politics...
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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 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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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 (2015) 23 (3): 515–543.
Published: 01 August 2015
... 519
service industry and creation of sentiment in the entertainment industry.11
Through affective labor, Hardt argues, capital turns human emotions
and relations into part of the production process. Hardt holds that, along...
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 179–203.
Published: 01 February 2016
..., this article illuminates how global geopolitics, uneven capitalist development, and transnational migration are entangled with intimacy, power, and emotions to shape intimate labor at a critical juncture of the changing global order. Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 intimate labor military...
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positions (2012) 20 (1): 211–239.
Published: 01 February 2012
... a layered inscription of citizenship, loyalty, and labor via “the personal” formed the basic structure of meaning mobilized in identification documents. It traces the specific ways in which this emerged around practices and policies developed to monitor and control Chinese migration within the Burma-China...
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positions 11626793.
Published: 27 February 2025
... of the feminist gap. _ao_ao_ing is an ensemble of performance artists working in Shanghai and the digital arena. The emotional labor at the center of their project depends upon and critiques attunement to a sense of virtual and affective nearness. Yin Xiuzhen is based in Beijing. Her installations analyzed here...
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positions (2017) 25 (3): 469–505.
Published: 01 August 2017
... laborers, outside of the
theater.
Commodified Kinship and Emotional Wage Labor
During the era of indoor stage koa-a-hi, actresses were recruited into troupes
through a number of channels. A small minority were fans who joined...
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 253–279.
Published: 01 February 2016
... for
work, work for professional; we [Indonesians] work for life.” Japanese staff-
ers as such were criticized for their poor performance of emotional labor.
Utami said:
[Japanese colleagues] work long hours but not generous with emotions...
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 653–678.
Published: 01 November 2022
... : Penguin . Nicholls Peter . 2009 . Modernisms: A Literary Guide . London : Palgrave Macmillan . Oh Jinseok , and Kahm Howard . 2018 . “ Selling Smiles: Emotional Labor and Labor-Management Relations in 1930s Colonial Korean Department Stores .” Journal of Korean Studies 23...
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positions (2024) 32 (4): 943–964.
Published: 01 November 2024
... Asia . Taipei : Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica . Hsiao Hsin-Huang Michael , ed. 1999 . East Asian Middle Classes in Comparative Perspective . Taipei : Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica . Huang Shirlena , and Yeoh Brenda S. A . 2007 . “ Emotional Labour...
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positions (2015) 23 (3): 437–462.
Published: 01 August 2015
... no emotional investment. Another student said that he finds
emotional labor too difficult and gave up dating after one or two romantic
relationships. They consider socializing as hard work that often does not
yield return on investment.
Cho ∣∣ Spec...
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 205–230.
Published: 01 February 2016
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dancers are very much aware that once they have sex with their customers,
the flow of gifts and money will likely diminish. Thus, the sexual labor in
these transactions involves emotions and eroticism, similar to the affective
and emotional labor...
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positions (2024) 32 (4): 821–846.
Published: 01 November 2024
... investment of time, money, energy, and emotional labor under expert guidance (Elliott, Powell, and Brenton 2015 ; Hays 1996 ). While it has been suggested that this dominant culture of motherhood is contradictory to capitalist logic (Hays 1996 ), it actually works well with the neoliberal capitalist...
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positions (2024) 32 (3): 655–684.
Published: 01 August 2024
... reforms. Their cognitive labor of research facilitates worker involvement in technological innovation and gives rise to a managerial class of technocratic elites (chap. 1022). Second, Ning Yi's governance relies on the emotional labor of storytelling. Ning dispatches storytellers to circulate stories via...
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 281–302.
Published: 01 February 2016
...
to making that embryo into a baby?
Much of the literature on caring labor focuses on the workers, often third
world women who provide emotional, physical, and intellectual labor to fur-
ther the comforts of first world individuals. In this article...
Journal Article
positions (2023) 31 (2): 403–429.
Published: 01 May 2023
... bring to mind another nocturnal scream narrated by labor sociologist Pun Ngai (2005). Pun worked and lived with migrant women in an electronics factory in southern China for a few months and witnessed firsthand the emotional anguish of some of her coworkers/research participants. The ways in which...
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