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positions (2016) 24 (1): 97–127.
Published: 01 February 2016
... encounters across difference. Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 volunteer tourism multispecies ethnography feminist new materialism feces The Materiality of Intimacy in Wildlife Rehabilitation:
Rethinking Ethical Capitalism through Embodied Encounters
with Animals in Southeast...
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positions (2016) 24 (2): 481–512.
Published: 01 May 2016
... the individual and the nation. Many South Korean painters from this period turned to the idea of materiality, the amplification or replication of soil, rice, and earthenware on painted surfaces, as a means to create a visual culture that was bound to a unique Koreanness while simultaneously emerging as universal...
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positions (2012) 20 (4): 1009–1039.
Published: 01 November 2012
... Harootunian help us do so, but it is ultimately the voices of the women on the streets from Ito Noe to Muto Ruiko that lead this journey of ours. Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 A Unique Tradition of Materialism in Japan:
Osugi Sakae, Tosaka Jun, and Uno Kozo
Katsuhiko Endo (featuring...
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positions (2024) 32 (3): 655–684.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Renren Yang Abstract The article deploys the material metaphor of “flat surface” to read the unexpected cross-modal affinities between amateurish cover design and professional storytelling in Chinese web novels. Canvassing the ways visual and verbal artifacts put into play metaphoric associations...
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positions (1999) 7 (3): 697–731.
Published: 01 August 1999
...Louisa Schein Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 693
Diaspora Politics, Homeland Erotics, and the Materializing of Memory
Louisa Schein
Two vignettes...
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 February 2016
... Guest Editors’ Introduction
Intimate Industries: Restructuring (Im)Material Labor in Asia
Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Hung Cam Thai, and Rachel Silvey
Introduction
Markets of affect, care, reproduction, and sex have long inhabited a trans-
national terrain,1...
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positions (2017) 25 (3): 469–505.
Published: 01 August 2017
... Works: Novels, Folk Literature, Drama, Essays [Vol. 2 ]), edited by Tulin Shi , 259 – 79 . Changhua City : Changhua County Culture Bureau . Crying Songs and Their Fans:
The Material and Affective Economy of Taiwanese Opera, 1945 – 1975
Teri Silvio
For more than...
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positions (2020) 28 (1): 121–144.
Published: 01 February 2020
... as “women’s art.” In focusing exclusively on symbolic allusions to gender representation, these discussions overlook the possibility of more complex narratives arising from Lin’s artistic concerns. By starting from the formal, material, and spatial components of her work, this article reveals how Lin has...
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positions (2013) 21 (3): 547–577.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Robert Oppenheim This article makes a case, in the study of Korea's colonial modern transition, for supplementing the examination of writings with attention to historical modalities of writing itself considered as a material inscriptive practice, and thus also for the interdisciplinary engagement...
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positions (2020) 28 (4): 869–904.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Joanne Leow This essay theorizes the cultivation, suppression, and cooptation of new forms of Asian tropicality in the material and cultural productions of contemporary Singapore. Originating in Anglo-American imperial discourse of the eighteenth century, tropicality suggests the social...
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positions (2025) 33 (1): 55–82.
Published: 01 February 2025
...Qilin Cao Abstract This article argues that the earphone is a microcosm of the broader material and societal changes that occurred within the film translation industry in Republican Shanghai. As one of the acoustic devices that shaped the transmission and consumption of sounds in the modern world...
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positions (2019) 27 (1): 115–144.
Published: 01 February 2019
...” and Marx’s “dialectical logic.” How are we to think of a logic of strategy alongside a logic of dialectics? What is the historical materiality of this alongsidedness, and what political direction must be given to the unavoidable methodological differences, disorder, and chaos resulting from...
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positions (2008) 16 (3): 661–688.
Published: 01 August 2008
... the symbolic reserve in the case of a Korean patriarch, Chŏng Chu-yŏng, whose death generates the myth of national genius. The preservation of the symbolic value that becomes possible through death as a meaning-making event is translated into the economy of the virtual that sustains the capitalist material...
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 895–921.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Hans Steinmüller Abstract The Wa State of Myanmar is often called “shanzhai China,” that is, a lesser imitation of China. This essay unpacks the material and symbolic implications of creative imitation at the Chinese periphery, embodied in shanzhai 山寨 practices. Literally “mountain fortress...
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positions (2021) 29 (4): 869–894.
Published: 01 November 2021
... everyday life during the Mao period. Everyday life is historical, produced in different ways under different material conditions, structured and shaped by social forms in motion. Thus, it is not an analytical frame through which historians can view the real content of the Mao period underneath the thin...
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positions (2021) 29 (4): 759–782.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Sigrid Schmalzer Abstract Scholars of Mao-era history adopt a wide range of approaches to the selection and treatment of source material. Some scholars regard published sources as propaganda, and therefore as biased and unreliable. For many, archival sources are the gold standard; others question...
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 107–128.
Published: 01 February 2024
... the better-off philanthropists and volunteers, whose philanthropic activities tend to enhance their status and dominance, the ordinary people presented in this article experience major tensions between providing for their family and caring for others in society, between ensuring the material conditions...
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positions (2018) 26 (4): 647–685.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., industries, technological advancements, and overall material developments. On the other hand, the Korean press harshly criticized America for these same material developments, and America embodied much of Koreans’ critique and anxiety. Moreover, these conflicting discussions did not always line up...
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positions (2008) 16 (3): 629–659.
Published: 01 August 2008
... , in Žižek's Lacanian usage, is used to understand the mechanism by which Tawara personally and socially excuses herself from having to engage her material in a more critical way that would alter rather than simply reflect her media- and advertising-defined environment. Jouissance is the key to her...
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 595–625.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of government shape one another in contemporary Vietnam. This focus, which considers the material consequences of different discursive positions, reveals a curious paradox. Namely, the dominant regulatory approaches in use today define the primary source of bureaucratic corruption and thus the forms...
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