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...Hun Kim As the references of the world-class city pivot from traditional centers of finance in the West to include an ascendant Asia, cities dependent on foreign investment must modulate their governance to capture these flows of capital and urban development expertise. This article examines how...

...Arve Hansen Abstract Vietnam's embrace of the Leninist-capitalist hybrid known as the socialist market economy has led to a number of food transformations. These include increasing food imports, heavy investment by powerful domestic and foreign actors in food production and retailing...

... generation's trauma is received by the generation after in the form of family tales, journals, recordings, strained parent‐child relationships, invested sentiments in family bicycles, and even supernatural experiences, the article discusses the way the historical past is invoked as “affective archives...

... for the “transformative age” referred to as tenkeiki , the article examines his dynamic thinking process, which mirrored the very performative maneuvers he saw in the figures who occupied a transitional period. His investment in the historical interstice was a way to escape essentialism, humanism, and ultimately, Japan...

... invested in their initiatives out of concern for future economic development. By the late 2000s, however, a new neoliberal youth subject came to dominate South Korea. Having internalized the ruthless competition on the labor market, these young people centered their lives on building “specs...

... investments in a neoliberal capitalist world order. From this perspective, this essay interrogates (homo)sexuality as a discourse of development on the global stage, while examining the conditions of possibility and limits of globalizing queer studies. Duke University Press 2010 The Queer Space of China...

...Naoki Sakai In characterizing one of the extraordinary achievements of positions: east asia cultures critique , one cannot overestimate a political investment gradually constituted, wittingly or unwittingly, throughout the career of the periodical by the editorial team to counteract the implicit...

.... By 2007, Vietnam was heralded as an “emerging market,” propelled by foreign investment and export-led growth. Yet inflation was widely attributed to “fiscal indiscipline” by officials with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other multilateral financial institutions. Vietnamese public intellectuals...

... into the larger emperor-centered community. However, as I will argue, this elusive project of cultural incorporation revolved around mutually constitutive definitions of Japanese-ness and Korean-ness that the colonial state was seriously invested in managing but, in practice, could hardly control. On the one hand...

... that there existed a high level of public concern about foreign investment, there was surprisingly little data that examined public perceptions. Our study examined whether the dominant voices in this debate represented broad public views about this issue. We conducted a survey of 899 Sydney residents in November...

... . Kim Yon-Se . 2013 . “Daehan Real Estate Trust Sanctioned for Accounting Fraud.” Korea Herald , April 24 . Kinetz Erika . 2007 . “Private Investment to Fuel Next Phase of Growth.” Phnom Penh Post , March 31 . ———. 2008 . “For Investors, Cambodia Could Be the Next Vietnam...

... the intervals of every day, and outside the regular professional sphere (Alboher 2012 ). This corresponded to the rising social trend since the early 1990s when more and more people started to engage in side businesses or stock market investment (or speculation) in addition to their regular professions...

... expectations for occupational achievement, income rewards, social status, and rights of citizenship.2 Many of them believe that investment in education will help them achieve these goals, and global factories feed this belief because...

... of hard work, of labor invested in producing an appealing performance of cute and in cul- positions 23:3  doi 10.1215/10679847-3125863 Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press positions 23:3  August 2015...

... friend. Raj follows Simran to Punjab. When he arrives there, he announces that he is interested in investing capital in India by opening a factory. He is immediately befriended by Simran’s fiance and is welcomed with open arms by his...

... tightening, since the subject matter such investors find interesting is often politically problematic-and so enter- prises not directly associated with television have reduced their investments. At the present moment, investment mainly...

... spectacular growth rates until the mid-­1970s, when the oil shock and the rigidity of long-­term and large-­scale capital investments started slowing down economic growth in Japan. This slowdown was part of a broader cri- sis in capital accumulation...

... of nance and investment that generate winds and vital forces of their own. A Short History of Property Relations since the Fall of Saigon In many circles, the incremental move toward privatization has been hailed as a triumph of bottom- up...

... become increasingly prominent avatars of bottom-up transnationalism in many countries (Pieke 2021 ). Ching Kwan Lee's ( 2022a : 313) global China concept, referenced in this issue's title, draws attention to these developments, highlighting those “outward flows of investment, loans, infrastructure...

... in capitalism. Far from contrasting capital invest- ment to the potlatch of the American Northwest, Gilder equates them. Goux paraphrases Gilder’s supply-side reasoning in the following passage: The current notion of a self-interested...