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positions (2004) 12 (1): 237–246.
Published: 01 February 2004
... investment in environmental and eco-
logical restoration. The issue is this: in the past several decades, the world did
not lack the technology needed for the basic and necessary protection of the
environment, and the world did not lack the funds...
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positions (2012) 20 (4): 983–1007.
Published: 01 November 2012
... filled with decontextualized buildings designed by famous foreign architects. While this uniformly high-rise environment and urban development is common among the high-economic-growth East and Southeast Asia countries since the 1980s, one difference in Singapore's urbanism is a utopian belief that once...
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positions (2014) 22 (3): 635–659.
Published: 01 August 2014
.... On the other hand, people have an acute understanding of health in relation to the environment. Taking anthropology of embodiment as research methodology, this article formulates questions concerning “environmental health” in rural China as follows: how does the discourse of “rural hygiene and environment...
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positions (2008) 16 (3): 629–659.
Published: 01 August 2008
...-projected attitudes. While thematically arranged, usually in sequences more or less centered on romantic entanglements, these poems reflect the rational, national, industrial capitalist environment and its totalizing effects. Critical lines of escape are left only in the force of fresh juxtaposition...
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positions (2023) 31 (3): 677–708.
Published: 01 August 2023
... traces by a variety of different actors. Drawing on a range of concepts from cultural studies and visual ethnography, the article provides a close reading of these traces, treating them as important historical documents and examples of how human actors interact with the built environment during China's...
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 561–591.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Alfred Montoya Drawing on archival research and fieldwork conducted in Ho Chi Minh City and its environs in 2007–2008, this article examines a shift from a moral-economic model of protection/patronage turning on the long-standing figure of “the People,” to a biopolitical mechanism of power...
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positions (2013) 21 (2): 225–267.
Published: 01 May 2013
... collectivism, and the ways collectivism shapes artists' practices of making and showing art in an environment they operate. In particular, this introduction proposes a periodization of kindai (modern), gendai (contemporary), and kontemporarī (“contemporary” in a global sense) based on three different...
Journal Article
positions (2013) 21 (2): 475–488.
Published: 01 May 2013
... experience as a woman artist in the male-dominant avant-garde environment in the southern region of Kyūshū from the mid-1950s to the 1980s. Gender and sociopolitical dynamics in various art collectives are the primary focus throughout the interview in order to reveal the less examined inner workings...
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positions (2013) 21 (4): 885–919.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Laikwan Pang In this article I first relate and analyze the overall development of cultural policy and the intellectual property rights (IPR) legal structure in China, in order to show how China's policy and its legal environment increasingly adapt to global conditions. I then use Lijiang...
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positions (2013) 21 (4): 947–985.
Published: 01 November 2013
... feminist function within the discursive environment of colonial Korea. Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Rethinking Feminism in Colonial Korea:
Kang Kyoˇngae and 1930s Socialist Women’s Literature
Sunyoung Park
In June 1932, a train was returning to Korea from...
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positions (2014) 22 (3): 691–720.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Zhu Xiaoyang Taking a topographical approach, this article provides an account of social change in the village of Xiaocun in Yunnan since the early twentieth century. For a century, the villagers have dwelled in the local environment, both changing and creating the village landscape. This article...
Journal Article
positions (2015) 23 (2): 201–229.
Published: 01 May 2015
... that these projects concern themselves with Tokyo's periphery? Ultimately, this question leads me to a reconsideration of the nature and function of landscape, as a ghostly double of the built environment. In this article, I argue that the peripheral landscape opens itself up as a potential site from where to think...
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positions (2018) 26 (2): 243–264.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., a loosely affiliated group of antipollution thinkers and activists have been exploring the relationship of human society to its environment in extremely creative and fruitful ways. Beginning with the methylmercury poisoning called “Minamata disease” of the 1950–70s, this group began what they called...
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positions (2018) 26 (2): 265–304.
Published: 01 May 2018
... methods, and environments in Japan, geneticists grappled with how to extract reliably universal knowledge about the effects of low doses of radiation. This article aims to sort out the relationship between the 1954 event and subsequent low-dose radiation experiments in Japan, which contributed unevenly...
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positions (2018) 26 (2): 213–241.
Published: 01 May 2018
... had investigated questions about the exposure of bodies to radiation. Their paths crossed at a workshop entitled “Exposure and Effect: Measuring Safety, Environment, and Life in Asia” at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where they discussed the meanings of their research and work...
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positions (2019) 27 (4): 597–621.
Published: 01 November 2019
... argues that his theorization is in fact flexible enough to withstand more recent critique leveled against the notion of national cinema, and even allows radical new ways of thinking about national cinema in the contemporary moment of a new media environment and increasing transnational cultural flows...
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positions (2020) 28 (4): 869–904.
Published: 01 November 2020
.... In Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropo- cene, edited by Kregg Hetherington, 115 48. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Ng, Yi- Sheng. 2012. Agnes Joaquim, Bioterrorist. In Fish Eats Lion, edited by Jason Erik Lundberg, 31 45. Singapore: Math Paper Press. Nixon, Rob. 2005. Environmentalism...
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positions (2021) 29 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 February 2021
... leads to the formation of hierarchies, categories of containment, and reductionism—and to unearth forms of comparison emerging from local environments and local knowledge; and (2) in thinking of storytelling events or inscriptions as situated testimonies (i.e., identifying the politics of location...
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positions (2021) 29 (2): 347–372.
Published: 01 May 2021
... colleagues made sense of his death by pointing to the environmental dangers of life in colonial space. As European debates about acclimatization and immunity illustrate, views on health at the time of McKenzie s death were still heavily influenced by analytical approaches that emphasized the environment...
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positions (2021) 29 (2): 373–398.
Published: 01 May 2021
... environment, in which diverse media practices intersected. Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Lu Xun media magic lantern the periodical orality References A Lun'na 阿伦娜 . 2010 . “ Dianhua jiaoyu de yunyu yu dansheng” 电化教育的孕育与诞生 ( “The Incubation and Inception of Audio...
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