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positions (2024) 32 (2): 341–369.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Pun Ngai Abstract This article anticipates a political project that underlines China's infrastructural capitalism and the infrastructural power of labor in the making of the Chinese working class. This project embarks a re‐departure of the left movement after the Jasic struggle, which inspired...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 479–499.
Published: 01 August 2022
... into the world of criminality and low-wage labor. As the socioeconomic divides in infrastructure and economic development continue to drive a wedge between urban cores and urban villages, the cash-based economy of migratory, low-waged labor remains, at best, tolerated by urban residents and by the municipal...
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positions (2024) 32 (4): 797–820.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Anita Koo; Ngai Pun Abstract Accompanying the “China Dream” as a symbol of the advent of Chinese transnational infrastructural capitalism, a new project of subject making is emerging: an increasing number of Chinese youth, especially those from working-class backgrounds, have entered the expanded...
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positions (2019) 27 (3): 531–555.
Published: 01 August 2019
... in order to highlight the interaction between ideas and physical infrastructure, and to consider the dynamics of power over space. The discourse surrounding the bullet train’s debut—including planning materials, passengers’ impressions, and representations in popular culture—shows the mutual influence...
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positions (2017) 25 (4): 669–692.
Published: 01 November 2017
... institutions like the Asian Development Bank and World Bank that likewise produce urban infrastructure and urban development projects in the city. I argue that these flexible modes of city making are a way for state agencies to speculate on multiple and contradicting visions of the world-class city utilizing...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 455–477.
Published: 01 August 2022
... conditions and overloading village infrastructure. Urban villages have in recent years emerged as key sites of ideological and political contestation. For local officials and planners envisioning gleaming world cities brimming with advanced technology and highly skilled workers, these are dirty and backward...
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 865–893.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Lorenzo Andolfatto Abstract Recent discussion concerning the Chinese government's autocratic practices has been orienting public attention toward the large scale of its surveillance apparatus. Observed from afar, the integration of digital and material infrastructures for discipline and control...
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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 (2022) 30 (3): 523–547.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Tong Lam Abstract In spite of their informal and substandard nature, Chinese urban villages are actually part of the infrastructure that institutionalizes and normalizes China's uneven development by providing cheap dormitory-style accommodations to the country's vast army of unskilled rural...
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positions (2009) 17 (3): 643–653.
Published: 01 August 2009
... infrastructure to nurture Aborigine talent in Taiwan's film industry, however vulnerable the industry may be. Duke University Press 2009 In the Realm of the Indigenous:
Local, National, and Global Articulations in Fishing Luck
Anita Wen-Shin Chang
When I first saw Fishing Luck...
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positions (2010) 18 (1): 253–277.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Jack Linchuan Qiu Does the Internet, a key technological infrastructure in contemporary urban China, facilitate the emergence of private entrepreneurs and autonomous citizens? Who deserves the credit? Chinese national leaders answered “yes” to the first question and pointed to themselves...
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positions (2014) 22 (2): 329–369.
Published: 01 May 2014
... as haunting memories. As the economic pillar of Japan's colonial expansion in Manchuria, Mantetsu laid the foundations of modern infrastructure in cities and later scattered thousands of agrarian settlers throughout the land, a process both heralded and documented in its film productions. If cinema found its...
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positions (2014) 22 (3): 635–659.
Published: 01 August 2014
... understanding of hygiene is intimately connected with environmental degradation, a perceived “dirtiness” that is not really of their own making. Grounded in anthropological field research in rural Henan, it argues that the lack of any infrastructure to dispose of trash is core to rural environmental problems...
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positions (2014) 22 (3): 661–689.
Published: 01 August 2014
... the development of infrastructure and of transport, which they regard as a step toward improving living conditions and employment opportunities. Through their participation in (and rejection of) building practices, and their calls on the local state to offer better compensation, villagers are also reconfiguring...
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positions (2015) 23 (3): 487–513.
Published: 01 August 2015
... of the digital infrastructure that evolved around the trend, the essay offers three arguments. First, it claims that the digital economy has adopted a particular mode of accumulation—the social factory—that has expanded sources of value extraction by blurring the boundaries between paid/productive and unpaid...
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positions (2024) 32 (2): 223–231.
Published: 01 May 2024
... with examples that range from aesthetic movements, experimental music, and cinematic techniques to on-site struggles in the era of infrastructural capitalism. Opening the issue is Inhye Han's “Undoing the Nation-State-Capital Trinity.” From the outset, the nation-state itself comes undone as the article...
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positions (2021) 29 (3): 453–468.
Published: 01 August 2021
... individuals creatively strategize as they engage with formal legal infrastructures to construct desired family forms and kinship relationships. This special issue focuses on family law reforms and legal encounters in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea to highlight the continuing legacies of Japanese...
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The Imperishables: Somatic Remediation, Femininity, and Plasticity in Ōshima Nagisa's Urban Critique
positions (2024) 32 (2): 287–314.
Published: 01 May 2024
... experiments in the late 1960s and 1970s interpenetrated the polyvalent urban space where intense contestation between capitalist state power and heterogenous spatial politics took the stage. Informed by media and infrastructure studies, recent scholarship has contributed to the crucial re-entanglement...
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 27–47.
Published: 01 February 2024
..., and it was during this time that electricity, along with other “tentacles of modernity” (Headrick 1988 ), penetrated colonized territories. Despite its transformative effects on colonial societies, however, there has been relatively little research on colonial electrification and broader issues of infrastructure...
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positions (2020) 28 (4): 841–868.
Published: 01 November 2020
... and Cultural Expression in Southeast Asia , edited by Day Tony Liem Maya H. T. , 247 – 64 . Ithaca, NY : Southeast Asia Program . openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/52725 . Larkin Brian . 2013 . “ The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure .” Annual Review of Anthropology...
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