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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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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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positions (2020) 28 (4): 841–868.
Published: 01 November 2020
... eld of broadcast media constitutes the nondiscursive and nonhermeneutical infrastructures of the state and of society at large, and yet it seems that the so- called infra- structural turn in the humanities cannot confront postcolonial cultural stud- ies quickly enough.5 Before language, meaning...
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positions (2013) 21 (2): 225–267.
Published: 01 May 2013
... operational structures (infrastructure), brought
about by the public sector’s (i.e., government-led) institution building and
the private sector’s (i.e., nongovernmental) collectivist measures. Third, they
carry over, with little critical...
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positions (2021) 29 (2): 235–265.
Published: 01 May 2021
...]”). Zhonggong dangshi yanjiu 中共党史研究 ( Journal of Chinese Communist Party History Studies ), no. 4 : 49 – 62 . Humphrey Caroline . 2003 . “ Rethinking Infrastructure: Siberian Cities and the Great Freeze of January 2001 .” In Wounded Cities: Destruction and Reconstruction in a Globalized World...
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positions (2021) 29 (4): 809–834.
Published: 01 November 2021
... population into light industry, government administrators did mobilize large quantities of rural labor for another purpose. The Maoist state routinely made up for scarce domestic machinery by routing masses of rural workers into labor-intensive infrastructure construction projects. The state capitalist...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 501–521.
Published: 01 August 2022
... that diverse agents, calculative policies, and infrastructural development facilitate space production (Lefebvre 1991 ) at the urban edge of eastern Nanjing. The People's Network, the Communist Party's official news media, once declared that China's urban development should not overlook rural-urban...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 353–375.
Published: 01 May 2022
... primarily draws involves an in-depth qualitative examination of the daily mobility patterns of children, their families, and the infrastructure surrounding the phenomenon of cross-boundary schooling (bus companies, homestays, schools, and teachers). The field “site” is the border between Hong Kong (Special...
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