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Parental Rights and the Temporality of Attachment: Law, Kinship, and Child Welfare in Japan
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positions (2021) 29 (3): 469–493.
Published: 01 August 2021
...の一部付与に関する考察 (“Consideration of the Conferment of Partial Parental Rights through the Revision of the Child Welfare Law”). www.foster-family.jp/opinion/200410shinken/200410shinken-kosatsu.html (accessed March 25 , 2012 ). Tsuge Azumi . 1999 . Bunka to shite seishokugijyutsu: Funin...
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Will Marriage Rights Bring Family Equality? Law, Lesbian Co-Mothers, and Strategies of Recognition in Taiwan
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positions (2021) 29 (3): 551–579.
Published: 01 August 2021
... of lesbian co-mothers to secure vital legal guarantees for the families they create through intentional childbearing. As pioneers who have formed families in a legal vacuum, these parents harbor deep hopes for what law will offer but simultaneously doubt that legal reforms will guarantee the rights...
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Children and Law in the Shadows: Legal Ideologies and Personal Strategies in Response to Parental Abductions in Japan
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positions (2021) 29 (3): 523–549.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Allison Alexy Abstract In contemporary Japan, police and law enforcement are often reluctant to assist in family conflicts. In practice, law enforcement and the family law system offer little assistance for people struggling with family conflicts in particular, following the logic that “law does...
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From the Law of Value Debate to the One-Child Policy in China: On Accounting and Biopolitics
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positions (2022) 30 (1): 9–34.
Published: 01 February 2022
... policy is absolutely continuous with other reforms across economic sectors (agricultural responsibility systems and urban enterprise reforms) and discontinuous with anything we might understand as population management in the period 1949–76. The “law of value debate” in 1979, which “resolved” a long...
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Remade in China: Rule of Law, Democracy, and the Chinese 12 Angry Men
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positions (2022) 30 (1): 137–158.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Thomas Chen Abstract Against the background of the growing effort in the Xi Jinping era to sinicize democracy and rule of law, much critical attention has surrounded Chinese models of governance variously conceived as “humane authority” and “political meritocracy.” What is missing from...
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The Limits of Family: Military Law and Sex Panics in Contemporary South Korea
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positions (2021) 29 (3): 607–632.
Published: 01 August 2021
... ought to be conceived as a problem with sex incorporating both “substance” and the practice of having sex. He explores these limits of family through a broadening understanding of family law in Korea, focusing on the anti-sodomy clause in the Military Penal Code and mandatory HIV/AIDS testing...
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Dissemination of Law and Access to Justice at the Village Level: A Case Study of Barefoot Lawyers in the Villages of China
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positions (2014) 22 (3): 603–633.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Ying Xing At a time when professional law firms have widened the gap between the legal system and grassroots social life, “barefoot lawyers,” part-time legal workers in villages and towns, are paving the ways for people to “approach justice.” The emphasis on “welcoming law into the countryside...
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Gendered Borders: The Historical Formation of Women's Nationality under Law in Taiwan
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positions (2009) 17 (2): 289–314.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Chao-ju Chen What does the nation mean to women? How does the law draw national borders, and in what way is it gendered? This paper examines the ways in which women are related to the nation in Taiwan by discussing the legal regulation of nationality. Historically and contemporarily, the decisive...
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Representation Crisis: History, Fiction, and Post Martial Law Writers from the “Soldiers' Villages”
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positions (2009) 17 (2): 375–410.
Published: 01 May 2009
... narrative. The main argument is about what I call a “representation crisis,” the deep feeling that both language and narrative have lost their referent in the post-martial law cultural state in Taiwan. I point out that these writers' mistrust of official histories leads to an inward turn toward personal...
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Male Same-Sex Relations in Modern China: Language, Media Representation, and Law, 1900 – 1949
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 489–510.
Published: 01 May 2010
... apparatus had no clear stipulations on sex between men. Duke University Press 2010 Male Same-Sex Relations in Modern China:
Language, Media Representation, and Law, 1900 – 1949
Wenqing Kang
In China during the first half of the twentieth century, the issue of male...
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Opening a Virtual Space before the Door of the Law: The Transnational Togani Effect from Silenced to Angels Wear White
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positions (2024) 32 (3): 685–711.
Published: 01 August 2024
... layer added to heterotopic space that serves as a possible resistance against the entrapment of human subjects by neoliberal governance, in which the law is “in force without significance.” As Deleuze shows, the virtual and the actual are fully real, and the relationship between them takes the form...
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positions (2021) 29 (3): 453–468.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Seung-kyung Kim; Sara L. Friedman Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Recent decades have brought tremendous change to families, and the laws governing families...
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Northbound Colonialism: A Politics of Post–PC Hong Kong
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positions (2000) 8 (1): 201–233.
Published: 01 February 2000
...Law Wing-sang 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Northbound Colonialism: A Politics of Post–PC Hong Kong
Law Wing-sang
A year before the 1997 handover, I read with amusement an article in an
entertainment magazine describing the political attitudes...
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Adopting in the Shadows: False Registration as a Method of Adoption in Postcolonial South Korea
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positions (2021) 29 (3): 495–521.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Sungyun Lim Abstract This article examines false registration as a method of domestic adoption in South Korea. The article argues that the practice of falsely registering adoptees as natural births in the family registry emerged in response to the highly restrictive adoption laws in South Korea...
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Queer Existence under Global Governance: A Taiwan Exemplar
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 537–554.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Josephine Chuen-juei Ho Since the lifting of martial law in 1987, Taiwan has prided itself on steady progress toward liberal democracy with an ever-broadening understanding of human rights that now allegedly includes the rights of gays and lesbians. Yet at the same time, under the child-protection...
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Archiving Facts and Documentary Films: Sites of Memorial Struggle for the October 6, 1976, Massacre in Thailand
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positions (2023) 31 (4): 893–918.
Published: 01 November 2023
... blanket amnesty laws and libel laws. Additionally, unreleased archival materials are restricted from public release by copyright law. Audiovisual and documentary evidence for counter‐memory projects are thus challenged. On the other hand, evidence collected by activist archivist groups reveals painful...
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Not Entirely Married: Resisting the Hegemonic Patrilineal Family in Japan's Household Registry
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positions (2021) 29 (3): 581–606.
Published: 01 August 2021
... their surname by refusing to register their marriages to their “husbands.” Claiming themselves “married” but not legally registering their marriages, this growing group of name-change resisters defines their nonregistered marriages as jijitsukon 事実婚 (common-law or real marriage). Drawing on ethnographic...
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Capturing World-Class Urbanism through Modal Governance in Saigon
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positions (2017) 25 (4): 669–692.
Published: 01 November 2017
... institutions and individuals in Ho Chi Minh City, more commonly known as Saigon, deploy different modes of law and regulation to accommodate a diverse array of foreign capital producing the city. I offer two modes of governance: opacity and transparency. The first mode, opacity, affords government agencies...
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Citizenship in the Name of the Mother: Nationalism, Social Exclusion, and Gender in Contemporary Nepal
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positions (2017) 25 (4): 795–820.
Published: 01 November 2017
...-discriminatory citizenship laws are rooted in historical social and geopolitical tensions with India, especially nationalistic fears about Indian encroachment into Nepali territory and politics. This article argues that resurgent resistance to equitable citizenship laws does not simply reflect hegemonic Hindu...
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Truth or Reconciliation? The Guest and the Massacre That Never Ends
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 633–663.
Published: 01 November 2015
... narrative as a truthful revision of official histories, The Guest incessantly undermines the empirical ground for its version of history. What opens up as a result is the gap between cognition and affect, law and lawfulness; reconciliation emerges not as the natural consequence of establishing truth...
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