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positions (2015) 23 (2): 201–229.
Published: 01 May 2015
... an affective counter-history of Japan's postwar experience. Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Japan Anpo photography architecture landscape Tange Kenzō Hosoe Eikoh Megalopolis and Wasteland: Peripheral Geographies of Tokyo (1961/1971) Ignacio Adriasola...
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positions (2012) 20 (1): 67–94.
Published: 01 February 2012
..., instituted, and naturalized by the given fact of distance in geography, cultures, and religious traditions; degree in the development of capitalist modernization; and so forth; between the West and Asia. A discussion about the conceptual distinction of positionality from position elucidates...
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 437–470.
Published: 01 May 2012
... through acts of architectural destruction and reconstruction that likewise infuse capitalist logics and values, such as privatization and self-actualization, into the cityscape. Emerging geographies of neoliberalism in Vietnam are shown to be contingent upon the pathologization of socialist “ruins...
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positions (2012) 20 (4): 983–1007.
Published: 01 November 2012
... relationship to increasingly elitist capitalist development—they constitute a geography that indicates sociocultural difference. The filmmakers, in attempting to map an urban space capable of yielding knowledge of nonelite people, also attempt to delineate the interiority of a major part of Singapore's city...
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positions (2017) 25 (1): 9–28.
Published: 01 February 2017
...Moinak Biswas This article considers a possible logic of evolution in Indian cinema, which rests on the movement from space as stage of action, imbued with value, to a multiplication of secularized intermediary spaces. The encounter with the city—a defined geography and grid—made its own...
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positions (2019) 27 (3): 531–555.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Jessamyn R. Abel Japan’s first bullet train played a central role in the reshaping of both the urban geographies and metropolitan identities of Tokyo, Osaka, and the region as a whole. This article considers the 1964 opening of the “New Tōkaidō Line” in terms of the social construction of space...
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positions (2021) 29 (2): 347–372.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Derek J. Kramer Abstract This article examines how Anglo‐American evangelicals in colonial Korea employed racialized understandings of the environment to justify a culture of recreation and health. In the metropole and periphery, missionary researchers studying climate, geography, and public health...
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 49–67.
Published: 01 February 2024
... in contemporary Hanoi. Studying the interplay among social practices, urban foodscapes, and political economy, and focusing on the middle-class good life and the structural conditions underpinning it, the article analyzes the visible and invisible geographies of food. The latter includes the increasing dominance...
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positions (2021) 29 (1): 93–119.
Published: 01 February 2021
... historical actors often employed to organize their experiences, project themselves onto others, and advance their political desires. Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Caribbean geography comparative methodology colonialism Puerto Rico References Abril Mariano . 1912...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 409–410.
Published: 01 May 2022
... Johanna L. Waters is a professor of human geography at University College London, where she is the codirector of the Migration Research Unit. She specializes in migration, transnationalism, and (international) education. Her work has largely focused on East Asia and trans-Pacific educational...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 219–243.
Published: 01 May 2022
.... W. , and Yeoh Brenda S. A. 2015 . “ Asian Children and Transnational Migration .” Children's Geographies 13 , no. 3 : 255 – 62 . Allerton Catherine . 2014 . “ Statelessness and the Lives of the Children of Migrants in Sabah, East Malaysia .” Tilburg Law Review: Journal...
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positions (1996) 4 (1): 145–172.
Published: 01 February 1996
.... The Illusion of Nativist Consciousness Recently the reform of history and geography textbooks has begun, with the emphasis switching from “Chinese history and geography” to “local his- tory and geography,” and the trend of each locality being...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 277–300.
Published: 01 May 2022
... , and Robson Elsbeth , 107 – 20 . London : Routledge . Beazley Harriot . 2015 . “ Multiple Identities, Multiple Realities: Children Who Migrate Independently for Work in Southeast Asia .” Children's Geographies , 13 , no. 3 : 296 – 309 . Beazley Harriot , Butt Leslie...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 353–375.
Published: 01 May 2022
... Consumption .” Social and Cultural Geography 9 , no. 2 : 151 – 69 . Cresswell Tim . 2006 . On the Move: Mobility in the Modern Western World . New York : Routledge . Findlay Allan , King Russell , Smith Fiona M. , Geddes Alistair , and Skeldon Ron . 2012...
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positions (1996) 4 (3): 491–517.
Published: 01 August 1996
... institutionalized, with the new discipline of historical geography at its core. Since then, the discourse of the local has seen two marked revivals, which coincided with similar moments of eco- nomic restructuring and national chauvinism. The first...
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positions (2019) 27 (1): 209–239.
Published: 01 February 2019
... . Brovko P. F. Fomina N. I. 2008 . “ The History of Establishment of the National Park Network in Countries of the Asia-Pacific Region .” Geography and Natural Resources 29 , no. 3 : 211 – 25 . Calder Kent . 2001 . “ The New Face of Northeast Asia .” Foreign Affairs 80 , no. 1...
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positions (2017) 25 (4): 633–644.
Published: 01 November 2017
... Eugene Roy Ananya Ward Kevin . 2013 . “Assembling/Worlding Cities.” Urban Geography 34 , no. 5 : 581 – 89 . Nam Sylvia . 2011 . “Phnom Penh: From the Politics of Ruin to the Possibilities of Return.” Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review 22 , no. 1 : 55 – 68...
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positions (1999) 7 (2): 649–652.
Published: 01 May 1999
...). Tim Oakes, assistant professor of geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder, is the author of Tourism and Modernity in China (1998). Mary Ann O'Donnell is a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at Rice University. She is work...
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 923–925.
Published: 01 November 2022
... at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and three more at the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” at Heidelberg University, he joined the Human Geography Research Unit at the University of Fribourg's Department of Geosciences as a senior researcher, within the framework of the research...
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 333–335.
Published: 01 February 2016
... 2016 Contributors Danièle Bélanger is professor of geography at the Université Laval in Québec City. Her recent research focuses on migrants in precarious situations, including low-skilled migrant workers...