..., chuangdang 闯荡 (venturing) as a life project that either opposes or extends dagong has been neglected in scholarly studies. Venturing refers to a spatiotemporal condition defined by the uniqueness of urban villages where rural migrants participate in the informal economy on the urban fringes and attach...

...Mun Young Cho How do recent transnational encounters in East Asia help us explore the condition of poverty amidst increasingly unpredictable global and national political economy? Against a backdrop of East Asian “postmiracle” times, this article sheds light on the precarity of South Korean...

... as a framework for apprehending the creative potentiations of media piracy beyond the confines of bourgeois legality. Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 media piracy intellectual property rights security global media informal economies potentiality parasite legality and legitimacy...

...? Conversely, how might socialist continuities work in conjunction with neoliberalism to affirm its basic tenets? We argue for an understanding of transnational neoliberalism as a globally diverse set of technical practices, institutions, modes of power, and governing strategies informed by cultural...

...Allison Truitt The fight against inflation is a defining feature of neoliberalism and structural adjustment policies. Since the 1970s, inflation has been cast as a threat greater than unemployment because it destroys the pricing mechanism on which the flow of information in markets depends...

... the labor-­intensive and environmentally unfriendly economy seemed more keenly felt than ever. The language of the CCTV report reflects these broader policy concerns, which have informed such government-­backed projects as urban creative...

...Tamara Jacka In contemporary China, concerns about the suzhi , or “quality,” of individuals, groups, and populations pervade the social imagination and inform a wide spectrum of discourses and debates. Suzhi is of critical importance to contemporary China's booming, globally oriented market economy...

.... Traditional family and lineage networks, often containing overseas components, remained central to business operations in the local economy, which was characterized by increasingly frequent flows of capital and information...

... soundscapes in the feature films Rabun (2003), Sepet (2005), and Gubra (2006), as well as her work in commercial advertising. By creating moments and objects that “resonate,” Ahmad fashions a cinematic subjectivity that is informed by Malaysia’s position as a newly independent nation and full participant...

... postindustrial information economy “Days of Love and Labor”: Remediating the Logic of Labor and Debt in Contemporary Japan Michael Fisch In 2012 the popular Japanese weekly magazine Asahi Shimbun Weekly AERA surveyed the Japanese population to determine...

... hundred by 2014 due to periodic citywide gentrification campaigns to accommodate Beijing's mega events and real estate – centered development. In 2017, the mass eviction of rural migrants and suppression of much of the city's informal economy accompanied a citywide campaign against illegal buildings...

... are the “ubiquitous, palpable, but largely unaccounted-­for informal economies” of the South, where people socialize around media resources they sneak into their post-­human envi- ronment supported by fecund media piracy. Here is where an invitation...

... the analysis of intimate industries reveals the mutual constitution of intimate relations and market processes. Significantly, inti- mate industries transect informal economies of gift exchanges and love-­ based transactions. As the markets for intimacy...

... . “ Chengshi zhengguijingji yu feizhengguijingji de lianxi—yi Guangzhou zhongda bupi shichang jiqi zhoubian de zhiyihangye weili ” 城市正规经济与非正规经济的联系—以广州中大布匹市场及其周边 的制衣行业为例 (“Urban Formal and Informal Economies: A Case Study of the Zhongda Fabric Market and Surrounding Workshops in Guangzhou”). Master's thesis...

.... Resistance: Operation Safe Cab Our first campaign, Operation Safe Cab, began in December 1992, around the same time as the LDC hired its first paid organizer, Mobashar Khalil. Because the informal economy lacks regulation, its workers...

... that the multitude is developing out of the novel modes of production in which the information economy predominates. But here one finds another striking paradox at the heart of their argument. They insist that “the central role previously occupied by the labor...

...- dian Rockies for a dollar; or twenty well-­worn T-­shirts and sweaters for two dollars apiece. Typical items sold on UVanU include mobile phones, bedding, household appliances, and furniture, constituting an informal economy of used goods...

... hostesses and the customers and the moral regimes — what constitutes appropriate and inappropriate sexual intimacy — in the hostess clubs. While Parreñas focuses on sexual morality, I build on her work to connect these questions to informal economies...

... and informal economy. Today’s visceralities and positions 9:2 Fall 2001 366 intensities, but also information processing and analysis, are the new scenes of work in the image-mediated...

... of unmanaged, mobile bodies, in this case largely poor, rural- to- urban migrants in the informal economy.78 As Leshkowich has argued, female petty traders, in particular, whose mode of survival in late socialism signi es an irrational, “backward...