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positions (2022) 30 (3): 549–570.
Published: 01 August 2022
..., subdivided apartments, and underground shelters that are marked by crowdedness, poor hygiene, and lack of legal recognition. And such negative perceptions of migrant dwellings in turn justify their forced demolition and eviction. Local regulations not only neglect migrants’ need for urban housing...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 571–594.
Published: 01 August 2022
... how the uneven temporality of official neglect challenges the PRC's narrative of constant progress. [email protected] Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 urban villages Zhengzhou neglect government forced demolition progress class When Jenny 1 first...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 523–547.
Published: 01 August 2022
..., followed by demolition crews and their heavy equipment. They descended on Xian Village with no prior warning. As they began to attack villagers resisting the forceful demolition of the market, school, and vacated apartments, many villagers fought back, resulting in injuries and arrests. 8 This state...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 411–427.
Published: 01 August 2022
... trajectories of state urbanization and economic development—that we have sought to illuminate the unrecognized migrant struggles for survival and human dignity in the face of violent land grabs, ruthless evictions, forced demolitions, and sporadic protests. We have seen, for example, the emergence of new forms...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 501–521.
Published: 01 August 2022
... analyze chaiqian as sites of resistance against forced demolition (Chuang 2014 ; Ho 2015 ); fewer look at the technicalities of chaiqian implementation—in particular, the giving of compensation and the effects at the rural-urban fringes. The former strand of research rightly observes moments...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 595–617.
Published: 01 August 2022
... is only one of the forces behind accelerated spatial temporality in the urban villages. Local villagers’ investment in rental housing and rural migrants’ engagement with the informal economy also contribute to the accelerated spatial transformation in urban villages. When government-led demolition...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 455–477.
Published: 01 August 2022
... Serenitie . 2017 . “ Beijing Forces Migrant Workers from Their Homes in ‘Savage’ Demolitions .” CNN , December 9 . https://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/08/asia/china-migrant-workers-evictions-beijing/index.html . Sargeson Sally . 2013 . “ Violence as Development: Land Expropriation and China's...
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 437–470.
Published: 01 May 2012
...” and urban practices, and their eradication from the landscape of urban memory. Visual spectacles of demolition thus signify new aesthetic and economic regimes that link capitalist redevelopment and redesign to the formation of modern, prosperous, and “civilized” cities and citizens. Copyright 2012 by Duke...
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positions (2023) 31 (3): 677–708.
Published: 01 August 2023
... state these cabinets serve a similar function to a wall, they are also crucially different. Glass cabinets in metal frames are not open access; they require privileged access to publish displays. They are difficult to violate without considerable force, providing protective armor for the messages...
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positions (2011) 19 (1): 193–215.
Published: 01 February 2011
... and demolition, urban renewal, and export-oriented develop-
ment are among the most formidable forces shaping social reality as well as
literary forms; such aesthetic forms, however, are what give these forces vis-
ibility. Thus, where the state...
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 865–893.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., in Chengdu, with the death of entrepreneur Tang Fuzhen by self-immolation to protest local authorities and their forced demolition of the three-story building in which her family lived and worked. 12 Ilham Tohti was arrested in 2009 in the aftermath of the Ürümqi riots of July 2009. Charged...
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positions (2023) 31 (3): 623–648.
Published: 01 August 2023
... and aesthetics of cinematic translations as a multicultural mélange. In the Face of Demolition contains the famous line, “All for one and one for all” ( yan yan wai ngo, ngo wai yan yan 人人為我,我為人人), which epitomizes the “Union Film Spirit” and the collective force of the lower class (G. Ng 2011 : 4); it also...
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positions (2010) 18 (3): 599–631.
Published: 01 August 2010
... an ascendant West and an ostensibly ancient China. This
concourse rests on the establishment of a certain equivalence between these
two (and thus not necessarily “singular”) images; its rhetorical force rests on
the fact that this equivalence...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 619–640.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Tzu-Chi Ou Abstract In late 2017, a tragic fire in southern Beijing led to a massive eviction and demolition campaign that drove out tens of thousands of rural migrant workers in bleak winter weather. While the evictions were widely covered by the mass media, few analyses examined the gongyu 公寓...
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positions (2005) 13 (2): 379–410.
Published: 01 May 2005
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classes walked, as she did each day, through a neighborhood park. Since she
had been walking this route since childhood, she was shocked to see a newly
minted sign posted at the gates announcing the demolition of a section of
the park to make way...
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positions (2005) 13 (1): 205–214.
Published: 01 February 2005
... in international relations and in indi-
vidual states’ internal relationships; it is dominated by powerful destructive
forces disintegrating civil functions within the states and by hypertrophic
military functions. Both the sphere of politics and the state...
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 405–434.
Published: 01 May 2012
..., similar forms of land appropria-
tion have been carried out with great force, only now investors and specula-
tors often collude with the state.14 Instead of blanket neoliberalism, power
relations in Vietnam work like a bricolage of neoliberal...
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positions (2014) 22 (3): 661–689.
Published: 01 August 2014
..., had also moved in with Erjie since her own house
in a neighboring village had already been selected for demolition.23 While
Erjie and her family despised those who opportunistically built extensions
in the hope for higher compensation, those...
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positions (2022) 30 (1): 189–216.
Published: 01 February 2022
... 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 to frame the scenic landscapes of Yaksa-dong with different cinematographic...
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positions (2005) 13 (1): 9–30.
Published: 01 February 2005
... are familiar with press descriptions of some of the search operations
carried out by Task Force 121 and other special forces (including the Pak-
istani Quick Reaction Force) to track down Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin
Laden, Mullah Muhammad Omar, Ayman al...
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