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positions (2022) 30 (1): 189–216.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Jihoon Kim Abstract This article discusses several documentary films since the 2010s that portray the place and the landscape related to Korea's social reality or a personal or collective memory of its past, classifying their common trope as the “audiovisual turn.” The trope refers to the uses...
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in Working Worlds in Neoliberal Japan: Precarity, Imagination, and the “Other-World” Trope
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 February 2023
Figure 9 The impressionistic landscape in Grimgar , 2015.
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in Zhao Liang's Behemoth (2015) and the Apocalypse of Ecological Visibility
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 6 Landscape spliced and pieced together.
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in The Audiovisual Turn of Recent Korean Documentary Cinema: The Time-Image, Place, and Landscape
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 February 2022
Figures 3a and 3b Various landscapes in Jeju Island that function as autonomous entities but under which the traumas of the April Third Massacre have been buried. Stills from Jeju Prayer ( Pinyom , Im Heung-soon, 2012), frame grab.
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positions (2015) 23 (2): 201–229.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Ignacio Adriasola In this article, I juxtapose Tange Kenzō ‘s vision for a new civic and business axis to be built over Tokyo Bay in his proposal “Tokyo Megalopolis” (1961) and the Private Landscape series by photographer Hosoe Eikoh (1971–). These very different projects—Tange's paper architecture...
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 405–434.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Erik Harms This article situates localized Vietnamese practices of geomancy within the broader history of land-use right reforms in the postreform era. On the immediate level, geomancy appears to represent individualized attempts to reconstruct private homes and cultivate personal landscapes...
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 437–470.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Christina Schwenkel The shift to “market socialism” has brought rapid and profound changes to urban landscapes in Vietnam. Focusing on the fate of socialist architecture and urban design under contemporary urban redevelopment and renewal plans, this essay explores the transformation of Vinh City...
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positions (2014) 22 (3): 691–720.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Zhu Xiaoyang Taking a topographical approach, this article provides an account of social change in the village of Xiaocun in Yunnan since the early twentieth century. For a century, the villagers have dwelled in the local environment, both changing and creating the village landscape. This article...
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positions (2019) 27 (3): 437–468.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Jiyoung Suh This article examines the presence of Korean housemaids who worked for Japanese settlers in colonial Korea, 1910–45, and its connection to the urban landscape in the colony. It provides a historical investigation of the Korean housemaids who emerged among female workers in the urban...
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positions (2010) 18 (1): 253–277.
Published: 01 February 2010
.... Yet the “private” practices and perceptions of Internet that defined Nanhai's informational landscape persisted in a fractured manner at the same time, leading to major corruption scandals and the implosion of the grandiose technology campaign. To understand such a paradoxical process, this article...
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positions (2013) 21 (2): 309–350.
Published: 01 May 2013
... the alliances between artists and Japan's wartime state were formed, not only through top-down control but also as a result of a multilateral reciprocity, thereby exploring how artists played a proactive role in forming the wartime cultural landscape. Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 New Art...
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positions (2013) 21 (3): 547–577.
Published: 01 August 2013
... of Korean history or art history with material culture studies, science studies, and the phenomenological anthropology of landscape. My focus is Sǒkkuram, surely among the most extensively discussed of all Korean historic sites. Initially, I unveil a record of the temple in the unpublished papers...
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positions (2013) 21 (3): 683–701.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Guo-Juin Hong This article examines Mickey Chen's queer documentaries and their tactics of subversion, especially in his representation of both positive and negative images and in his formal strategies of mimicking mainstream media. Issues of “visibility” permeate the general landscape...
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 743–784.
Published: 01 November 2015
... role in sponsoring such “human rights” writings, this essay reads the latter as weaponized forms of expression, defined by their instrumentality within an uneven global landscape of power and rendered lethal by the state of unresolved hostilities between the United States and North Korea. Positing...
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positions (2017) 25 (1): 101–124.
Published: 01 February 2017
... as a site of social critique and utopian fantasy. The urban landscape created through these musical performances and the often highly stylized studio sets is not meant to be read as an authentic representation of real-life locales. Instead, the set as artifice insistently draws attention to its constructed...
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positions (2017) 25 (1): 223–248.
Published: 01 February 2017
... communities overseen by the haveli 's amir (overlord) dissipated with the declining financial and social powers of the Mughal emperor, and India's many regents and noblemen. Since the mid-twentieth century, havelis largely populate the nation's landscape as heritage sites or decaying buildings parceled out...
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positions (2019) 27 (4): 653–685.
Published: 01 November 2019
... Kwon’s 489 Years , Jisun Shin’s Contemplating Landscape , and Youngjoo Cho’s DMG _ Demilitarized Goddesses (all of the 2015 Real DMZ Project ) challenge the DMZ’s allegedly safe and benign image. More important, Minouk Lim’s Monument 300 (2014) evolves from the audience’s process of finding imaginary...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 523–547.
Published: 01 August 2022
... Where There Is No Room for Fiction , the selected photographs here provide a visual ethnographic account of the contested landscape of an urban village under siege. As well, these images explore the possibility of a critical aesthetics in order to engage the official vision of urban modernity...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 451–471.
Published: 01 May 2023
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Huiyu; Federico Picerni Abstract Over the past few years, China's cultural landscape has seen the emergence of several authors from among its migrant laborers, or “new workers.” Fan Yusu and Xu Lizhi are the most representative. Their literary production, which draws on their personal...
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 89–105.
Published: 01 February 2024
... to them, and how do they navigate the ambiguous moral landscape coproduced by authoritarianism and liberalism? Drawing on Aihwa Ong's ( 2008 ) concept of self-fashioning and AbdouMaliq Simone's ( 2019 ) practices of crafting, harvesting, and detachment, this article examines how young women use hip-hop...
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