Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-20 of 91 Search Results for
life insurance
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Journal Article
positions (2018) 26 (4): 619–646.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Ryan Moran This article analyzes debates surrounding the creation of the post office–run kan’i seimei hoken (basic life insurance), or kanpo . Beginning in the 1890s and early 1900s, intellectuals concerned with the new discourse of the social problem, which referred to the problem of worker...
Journal Article
positions (2017) 25 (3): 595–629.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Nandini Bhattacharya In this essay the author traces the mobilization of vocabularies of risk, uncertainty, and insurance within private and public affective worlds in contemporary India, and their aesthetic forms as found in Indian film and literature today. Rituparno Ghosh's film Noukadubi (2011...
Journal Article
positions (2023) 31 (2): 379–402.
Published: 01 May 2023
... in a remote village in Jiangxi. After graduating from high school, she worked in a small textile factory in Wenzhou for three years and then moved to Shenzhen in 2011 to “find a new path in the south to develop myself.” In fall 2013, Zuo began to sell life insurance after an introduction by another volunteer...
FIGURES
| View All (4)
Journal Article
positions (2011) 19 (2): 525–549.
Published: 01 May 2011
... to insure not her life, but the life of
her family in the province, and after she is raped and murdered toward the
end of the film, she gets what she was saving and putting aside for — finan-
cial security for her family through the life insurance...
Journal Article
positions (2000) 8 (3): 819–828.
Published: 01 August 2000
... was a private summer-
house outside Kobe, the Niraku-d¯o of 1908, an eclectic mixture of Mughal
and Hindu forms. His 1912 design for the Shin sect’s life insurance company
in Kyoto has similarly eclectic features. The dome and the leaded, arched...
Journal Article
positions (2012) 20 (2): 473–493.
Published: 01 May 2012
... — by buying a life
insurance policy.
When I asked residents of Ho Chi Minh City to comment on the ad,
many named the perfect fortune in the palm as the feature that drew their
attention, rather than the insurance itself...
Journal Article
positions (2017) 25 (3): 565–593.
Published: 01 August 2017
... parts, such as liver and kidney,
and even retinas and hearts. Then there is the threat of taking out a life
insurance policy. In Minami, one recurring narrative trigger is the suicide
attempt: Manda stops a person about to kill himself because...
Journal Article
positions (2017) 25 (3): 433–438.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Tani Barlow Copyright 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Editor’s Introduction
Vanessa B. Ward’s “Rethinking Intellectual Life in Early Postwar Japan: Shis
no Kagaku and Common Man’s Philosophy” opens this issue. In her essay
Ward...
Journal Article
positions (2006) 14 (1): 37–66.
Published: 01 February 2006
.... The primary
criteria that demarcated IMF homeless as deserving subjects and purangin
as undeserving were the desire to work and the intention to rehabilitate
toward a “normal” life. According to Mr. Yang, a middle manager deal...
Journal Article
positions (2024) 32 (1): 151–170.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Elizabeth M. Elliott Abstract In rural lowland Laos, aspirations to a good life and visions of well-being are defined and impacted by the process of negotiating health. The state of sabai (well-being) situates the person in relation to their family, social, and spiritual worlds, and the associated...
Journal Article
positions (1995) 3 (2): 537–565.
Published: 01 May 1995
... in
both political economics and its common Marxian critique by situating the
capitalist social economy in a broader historical and ethnographic context:
capitalism then appears as a logic of social life comparable to those logics...
Journal Article
positions (2022) 30 (3): 549–570.
Published: 01 August 2022
... square meters in 2015 (Shanghaishi tongjiju 2016 ). 10 These systems were launched in the early 2000s in pilot counties and became established nationwide by 2010. Local governments contribute to each participant's account. In 2017, the annual insurance fee for the New Rural Cooperative Medical...
FIGURES
Journal Article
positions (2021) 29 (3): 495–521.
Published: 01 August 2021
..., or household property. Furthermore, I argue that the restrictive adoption laws created two sets of adoption practices; one that is officially represented in the family registry, and another one that is practiced in real life. As all family relations were substantiated by the family registry, the family...
Journal Article
positions (2022) 30 (3): 501–521.
Published: 01 August 2022
... attention to mundane requests, such as setting up social insurance accounts for certain individuals. Comparing his job in the village to his previous experience at the university in the city, Jiazhen jokingly said that in Qilinmen he lived a “chaotic life at the bottom of society.” Villagers were aware...
Journal Article
positions (2008) 16 (2): 457–482.
Published: 01 May 2008
... with hybrid Asian
looks, for example, pose in ads to promote such commodities as clothes,
cars, computers, and life insurance. What is interesting about this corporate
deployment of multiraciality is its use of Asian hybridity to fuel...
Journal Article
positions (2021) 29 (3): 551–579.
Published: 01 August 2021
... to the structural and societal discrimination faced by Taiwanese who pursue non-heteronormative life paths. As in marriage equality debates in other countries, LGBTQ activism provoked heated contestation from conservative groups that opposed same-sex marriage, queer sexuality, and nontraditional gender roles...
Journal Article
positions (1993) 1 (3): 745–778.
Published: 01 August 1993
..., and educated in
a British missionary school. I have lived half my life in the United States,
equally divided between New York and the San Francisco Bay Area. The
rest of my family is scattered in three continents. Every year, I spend time...
Journal Article
positions (2024) 32 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Minh T. N. Nguyen; Phill Wilcox; Jake Lin Abstract The emergent quest for the good life in rapidly transforming China, Laos, and Vietnam can only be understood as part of the political economy of late socialism. This special issue critically engages with the notion of the good life and its...
Journal Article
positions (2024) 32 (4): 821–846.
Published: 01 November 2024
... 7,000 Huangrui Guangdong 6 and 3 Guangdong Self-employed Self-employed Earn a family income of 6,000 – 8,000 Amy Jiangxi 4 Jiangxi Part-time insurance agent Self-employed Less than 3,000 In debt from business Tanjie Hunan 5 Hunan Clerk and part-time saleswoman Shopkeeper Less...
FIGURES
Journal Article
positions 11626825.
Published: 27 February 2025
...Jeehyun Lim Abstract This article turns to two pieces of photojournalism in Life magazine by Carl Mydans to illuminate the visual economy of American militarism. By juxtaposing the photographs of the Tule Lake Japanese American incarceration camp and those of the Yosu-Sunchon rebellion in US...
1
