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positions (2019) 27 (4): 773–798.
Published: 01 November 2019
... the nonidentity, postsocialist ideologies invent a middle-class dream, attempting to reshape migrant workers into a “working class” misidentified with a class image beyond its financial reach as well as social function. It thus disunites the working class by throwing migrant workers into constant search...
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positions (2009) 17 (3): 591–616.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Luigi Tomba This article discusses the rhetoric and practices of China's middle-class “community building” ( shequ jianshe , as the campaign to reorganize urban residential communities that started in the late 1990s is called), and the role of suzhi (quality) in building models of “harmonious...
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 439–462.
Published: 01 May 2011
... are the transnational middle class such as advocates, academics, lawmakers, and the media people, including the Philippine elite. Recently, such overt sexualization of the workers has also subjected Filipino male workers in the night businesses. Whatever workers' sex and sexual orientation, they are seen not as humans...
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positions (1998) 6 (2): 475–502.
Published: 01 May 1998
...Jiemin Bao Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Same Bed, Different Dreams: Intersections of Ethnicity, Gender,
and Sexuality among Middle- and Upper-class Chinese
Immigrants in Bangkok
Jiemin Bao
When Guoyi,’ a Chinese immigrant woman in Bangkok...
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positions (2009) 17 (3): 489–521.
Published: 01 August 2009
... in reference to catachresis (Tani Barlow, 2005), in the sense that we engage it as a descriptor both to the underlying term of analysis middle-class (which has several translations but no absolute referent) and to the middle-class nuren (feminine person) of our attention here. The second, related point...
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positions (2016) 24 (2): 555–582.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., which appeared to be the more modern and influential style of the late nineteenth century to early twentieth century. The Chinese merchants and entrepreneurs who made up most of the Siamese middle class were allowed to keep their Chinese identity provided that they clearly, and oftentimes overtly...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 377–407.
Published: 01 May 2022
... capital, compensatory middle-class consumption, and entrepreneurial inspiration that strategically and creatively seeks to challenge working-class migrants’ marginal positions within South Korea's highly stratified and increasingly neoliberal society. carolyn.s.choi.gr@dartmouth.edu Copyright...
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positions (2017) 25 (1): 125–144.
Published: 01 February 2017
...Jenson Joseph For the earliest attempts in Malayalam cinema seeking to evolve a poetic aesthetic, the paradoxical relation toward urban modernity that emerged among the middle class by the middle of the twentieth century—defined by antagonism as well as fascination—operated as the axis around which...
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positions (2013) 21 (1): 189–221.
Published: 01 February 2013
... the grain of hegemony, without being co-opted by authoritarian capitalism. Both have attempted this in often-contrasting ways: for instance, TNS addresses a mostly English-speaking, theater-attending, middle-class audience, while Drama Box inserts Chinese-language forum theater into the organic everyday...
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positions (2019) 27 (4): 713–737.
Published: 01 November 2019
... marriage but to resolve the tension between the demands of “Indian tradition” on middle-class young women and their desire for a selfhood inflected by neoliberal discourses of autonomy. This dichotomy is symbolized in the novels in the tension between mothers and daughters and plays out primarily across...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 523–547.
Published: 01 August 2022
... urban villagers appropriated ideas of tradition, lineage, and socialist collectivism to fight against the government and the developer, their purpose was to acquire greater compensation and even symbolic capital in order to secure an urban middle-class future for themselves. In the process, however...
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 129–154.
Published: 01 February 2016
... by Western evangelical Christians that cared for special needs youth. In these homes, intimate reproductive and emotional labor practices that were inspired by first-world understandings of care “revalued” marginalized children and prepared them for middle-class lives abroad. The global humanitarian aid...
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positions (2016) 24 (4): 839–873.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Sidney Xu Lu This article examines campaigns aimed at abolishing Japanese overseas prostitution in Manchuria and North America during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, focusing on the ideologies and practices of Japanese middle-class abolitionists. It argues that campaigns...
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 321–349.
Published: 01 May 2010
... representations are one site where we may reread how status shame gets recoded as new sexual stigma. Feminist fictions invented a new subject as they constructed her for a rapidly changing Taiwan, pointing to how middle-class femininity needed to be reconstituted toward envisioning a gender-equal family-nation...
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 257–280.
Published: 01 May 2011
... their insertion into an international labor market where they struggle to maintain a sense of national belonging. These subjects are figured as entrepreneur-consumers, whose mediation commodifies their own affect, bodies, and labor power and uphold global structures. Featuring primarily middle-class protagonists...
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positions (2012) 20 (4): 1009–1039.
Published: 01 November 2012
... has provided the philosophical underpinning for the quasi-autonomous, middle-class movement that formed the consensus for Japan's prewar empire, or Osaka Ishi No Kai (Association for Osaka Restoration), that is making a loud noise in Japan right now. On the other hand, however, as the article argues...
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positions (2017) 25 (1): 223–248.
Published: 01 February 2017
... adult suffrage from the moment of Indepen-
dence, at a time when the electorate was not largely middle-class — in
fact, quite the opposite — the Indian nation-state included in the political
process, besides its bourgeois citizenry...
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 497–526.
Published: 01 May 2012
... ect compelling, preexisting moral discourses about
motherhood, personhood, and political economy.
Narratives about infant abandonment reveal a further dimension of
socialism’s ongoing signi cance to southern, middle- class urbanites...
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positions (2009) 17 (3): 523–535.
Published: 01 August 2009
... and in discourses
relating to modernity, civility, and civilization, as well as on middle-class
anxieties and aspirations for suzhi, manifested in particular in the nurture
of children.10 “The discourse of suzhi,” she argues, “appears most elaborated...
Journal Article
positions (2000) 8 (2): 349–387.
Published: 01 May 2000
... and
quickly collapses into a frozen surrealist landscape. In a city at standstill,
modernity finds its vivid allegory in the dispersal of urban middle-class
reality into a daydream, as the hypocritical male facade of the city crumbles...
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