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positions (2021) 29 (1): 93–119.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva This article introduces the house of mirrors as an analytical device with the aim of cracking open binary comparative work. It offers close readings of debates regarding US colonialism among Puerto Rican intellectuals and politicians at two distinct historical moments...
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in Working Worlds in Neoliberal Japan: Precarity, Imagination, and the “Other-World” Trope
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Published: 01 February 2023
Figure 1 The road scene in Part-Timer, Buy a House , 2010.
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in The Social Production and Political Potency of Home: Contentions between Housing Reconstruction and Place Making among the Chinese Qiang after the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake
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Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 2 Villagers helping with house building. Photograph by Yun Tang.
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 549–570.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Minhua Ling Abstract China's escalated infrastructural building and real estate development have gradually erased urban villages and reduced affordable living space for rural-to-urban migrants. This article showcases the emerging practice of container housing among low-income migrants, based...
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positions (2024) 32 (4): 917–941.
Published: 01 November 2024
.... This article explores two arenas that have to date received less public attention: the role of Chinese migrants and Chinese capital in Australian housing and education. In Australia and elsewhere, there is growing competition for desirable places in both the housing and education markets. In this competition...
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positions (2024) 32 (2): 371–398.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Figure 2 Villagers helping with house building. Photograph by Yun Tang. ...
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positions (2012) 20 (4): 983–1007.
Published: 01 November 2012
... existed in the advanced West — that rational design will make rational societies without superfluousness. The commercial downtown and successful public housing jointly become the embodiment of a uniform urban space of physical perfectibility. An important part of the emergence of Singapore contemporary...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 619–640.
Published: 01 August 2022
... (apartment complex), a low-rent housing complex where the fire broke out. Based on fieldwork in Beijing's northern fringe, this article examines the spatial transformation of residences from cramped one-story farmhouses to gongyu and how it signals the social stratification of migrant tenants. The emergence...
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 437–470.
Published: 01 May 2012
... aid, technology, and urban planning expertise. A primary focus of urban reconstruction was Quang Trung communal housing, consisting of eighteen hundred apartments and dormitories in five-story buildings that housed more than eight thousand residents, mainly workers and veterans in need of housing...
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positions (2024) 32 (3): 489–512.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Sangmi Bae Abstract This article introduces the 1933 novel After the Doll’s House by Ch’ae Mansik as an example of how revolutionary messages were presented through melodramatic narratives in colonial Korean proletarian literature. Between 1928 and 1930, several members of the Korea Artista Proleta...
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positions (2014) 22 (1): 7–39.
Published: 01 February 2014
... the discourse of normalcy surrounding former comfort women who must endlessly negotiate with the social regulations of womanhood. Bodily desires are emphatically configured in Byun's film even in standard interview scenes, and the architectural setting of the former comfort women's residence (the House...
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positions (2014) 22 (3): 661–689.
Published: 01 August 2014
... for industrialization and road building, entailing relocation of villagers, has been understood by local villagers. Rumors of possible relocation (and compensation for existing homes) have often translated into the speedy building of rather absurd house extensions to maximize compensation. In response, village...
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positions (2020) 28 (4): 789–814.
Published: 01 November 2020
... were more than devices to suppress political dissent. Instead, reformatories played productive functions for the Guomindang state. First, reformatories’ in-house magazines conjured up an anticommunist figure of the Communist that combined the excesses of urban capitalism and the residues of China’s...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 455–477.
Published: 01 August 2022
.... Since most have had their agricultural land requisitioned for urban construction, they instead build multiple extensions to their houses to rent to rural migrants seeking cheap accommodation. In some cases, village populations have increased tenfold as migrants have flooded in, causing cramped...
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positions (2017) 25 (4): 745–767.
Published: 01 November 2017
... social precarity in a highly unequal and rapidly changing urban environment. Many young domestic migrants who moved to the Seoul metropolitan area are precarious workers and vulnerable tenants in emerging forms of substandard housing. Their attempts to reconcile the idealized notion of home...
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positions (2015) 23 (2): 231–257.
Published: 01 May 2015
... unrepresented in Japanese literature, not least because they were still so new. This was the space of the danchi , enormous apartment complexes designed to house thousands of people and essentially comprising self-contained “new towns” built on the outskirts of Japan's rapidly growing cities during the high...
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positions (2017) 25 (1): 223–248.
Published: 01 February 2017
...Priya Jaikumar The vernacular architectural style of the haveli in India is defined by social historian Sarah Tillotson as a “distinguishable type of inward looking courtyard house” prevalent in precolonial North India. Havelis lost their ability to function as efficient domiciles with the decline...
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Published: 01 August 2023
Figures 2 (top) and 3 (bottom) Cast out from the family, Anna, on the street corner, looks back to the house to say farewell to her daughter at last sight. Courtesy of Television Broadcasts Limited.
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positions (2014) 22 (3): 635–659.
Published: 01 August 2014
..., rural-urban inequality for the
environment, health, and everyday experiences will be discussed.
Everyday Hygiene
Ayi was always concerned that her house would seem dirty (meji in Shang
dialect) to me. The usual phrase she employed while I...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 501–521.
Published: 01 August 2022
... away shantytowns at the urban fringe and to provide better housing for residents there. In a public speech, Li called urban slums “a debt accumulated through history and a scar left on the city” and claimed that China would move to tackle the issue of urban inequality exemplified by “high-rise...
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