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positions (2023) 31 (1): 203–227.
Published: 01 February 2023
... of the future that had come with deindustrialization. Despite people's lack of expectations for the future, “hope,” which is most frequently conceptualized as an orientation toward a not‐yet, was a recurring theme there. This article argues that the form of hope most prevalent among people who lost their homes...
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positions (2012) 20 (1): 385–388.
Published: 01 February 2012
...Wang Hui This short commemorative piece notes the twenty-year relationship of editors Wang Hui and Tani Barlow and Wang's strong commitment to the international world of journal publication. Wang's long career as a journal founder and editor and his utopian hopes for continuing development...
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positions (2014) 22 (3): 661–689.
Published: 01 August 2014
... officials and the county government have attempted to crack down on what they claim are illegal buildings. Some households have already been moved, conflicts loom large, and the village Communist Party secretary has caused even more controversy by building himself a huge house, hoping for a large...
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positions (2018) 26 (1): 13–33.
Published: 01 February 2018
... ultimately abandoned his quest for a new theory of color that would somehow serve the more radical emancipation of humankind he sought, Benjamin never lost his fascination for the experience of color he attributed to children, an experience that prefigured the utopian redemption of the senses he hoped might...
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positions (2015) 23 (2): 349–365.
Published: 01 May 2015
... Parties”) in the hope of attracting the “creative class” to the island and its economy, only to reinstate prohibitions when those burgeoning activities were seen as conflicting with Singapore's ideology of “Asian values.” Singapore today remains a nation where male homosexuality is illegal but domicile...
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positions (2015) 23 (3): 411–435.
Published: 01 August 2015
... working class, the majority of whom are young migrant laborers. The authors claim that in China the state played a significant role in accelerating global capital accumulation. The authors hope to make sense of the way that a state-capital alliance is shaping a new form of labor recruitment and labor use...
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positions (2015) 23 (3): 515–543.
Published: 01 August 2015
... by engaging in affective labor but also creating a “new idealism”—a sense of hope for their future rooted in commercial activity and conditioned by state supervision that results in the formation of new subjectivities. This article provides a close reading of Chen Xiao's story, a young unemployed college...
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positions (2009) 17 (1): 207–237.
Published: 01 February 2009
..., I hope to illuminate more effectively than has been done so far Takeuchi's rather dark and enigmatic book and to revalorize its significance as arguably one of the most intriguing, and certainly most idiosyncratic, wartime contributions on the topic of philosophy and the political in wartime Japan...
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 537–554.
Published: 01 May 2010
... to that of law. The emergence of this new form of power deployment works not only in collusion with the populist government's urgent desire to consolidate its legitimacy and power, but also in collaboration with expanding global governance through which Taiwan's nation-state status bid hopes to find a promising...
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positions (2011) 19 (3): 617–625.
Published: 01 August 2011
... different horizons to Chinese cultural studies in the era of global capitalism. I hope that this collective experiment into each other's territory will break ground for similar dialogues in the future, as such mutual experiments enrich our critical perspectives in an increasingly globalized world...
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positions (2021) 29 (3): 551–579.
Published: 01 August 2021
... of lesbian co-mothers to secure vital legal guarantees for the families they create through intentional childbearing. As pioneers who have formed families in a legal vacuum, these parents harbor deep hopes for what law will offer but simultaneously doubt that legal reforms will guarantee the rights...
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 763–792.
Published: 01 November 2022
... unattainable in the postmillennial present, despite its technological and industrial sophistication and despite it being declared the hoped‐for future. olga.fedorenko@gmail.com Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 advertising South Korea collective dreamworlds Korea Advertising Museum...
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 171–202.
Published: 01 February 2023
... on autonomist theory for inspiration regarding the visualization of postcapitalist sociality, analysis will demonstrate how their imaginative responses can produce visions of collectivity amenable to postcapitalist projects without explicitly political content. The article hopes to draw out latent capacities...
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positions (2013) 21 (4): 987–1018.
Published: 01 November 2013
... is the principle of hope. Duc’s positive expectations, as
Bloch would explain, “extend into a Not-Yet-Conscious . . . into a class of
consciousness which is itself to be designated not as filled, but as anticipa-
tory.”22 The anticipatory but not yet...
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 February 2023
...: What is to be done? Michael Berman's “Hope without a Future: Conflicts between Time and Place in Japan after 3/11” analyzes a widely studied village, Kamaishi, in the wake of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. As in all of the articles published in this issue, Berman dexterously fuses actual...
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 281–289.
Published: 01 May 2010
.... It both reflects and, we hope, provokes
ongoing debates about the meanings, implications, usages, and effects of
each of the terms in our title. No doubt our presenting materials from Tai-
wan, the Chinese/Asian diaspora, and mainland China...
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positions (2020) 28 (2): 481–495.
Published: 01 May 2020
... on April 27, the Singapore Joint Statement by US President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim on June 12, and the Pyongyang Joint Declaration on denuclearization and cooperation by President Moon and Chairman Kim on September 19, have given the world long- yearned- for hopes for a defini- tive end to war...
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positions (1997) 5 (1): 285–314.
Published: 01 February 1997
... by what you said in your acceptance speech. You
hoped that your receiving the award would elevate the voice of Asian liter-
ature and help perform some meaningful work for Asia as a whole. I sin-
cerely hope that it will. I wish you greater...
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positions (2021) 29 (3): 469–493.
Published: 01 August 2021
... seeking to codify best practices; child guidance center employees hoping to increase the placement of newborns in family foster care rather than in institutions; academics arguing that placing young children in institutions causes developmental damage or delay (Goldfarb 2015 ); foster parents advocating...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 431–450.
Published: 01 May 2023
... villages to earn money, not to settle. The pressing issue on their minds is to save enough so they can start a life elsewhere. To that end, many restrict their spending and live frugally in the hopes of building savings (Zhan 2015 ; Zavoretti 2017 ). Most have definite savings goals (e.g., a car...
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