...Megan Steffen Abstract Drawing on over twenty-four months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted between March 2013 and January 2018 in Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan Province, this article identifies neglect as a generative process. It demonstrates three related points: (1) that neglect generates...

... not simply reverse these binaries but aims to encompass both sides through a reappropriation of classical social theories such as those of Marx, Durkheim, and Freud. Building on long-neglected aspects of these theories, such as their varied approaches to a co-constitutive relation between social appearance...

... and the beginning of recovering (and reconstructing) the long-neglected general wartime history of Taiwan. At the same time, however, this new discourse of Taiwanese veterans (and recovered memory of the war) challenges the national and social unity created by political amnesia in postwar Taiwan. Issues related...

..., chuangdang 闯荡 (venturing) as a life project that either opposes or extends dagong has been neglected in scholarly studies. Venturing refers to a spatiotemporal condition defined by the uniqueness of urban villages where rural migrants participate in the informal economy on the urban fringes and attach...

... on the battlefields and the neglect of the Vietnamese refugees living at the margins of South Korean society have been effaced from public memory. Through the work of selective memory, the “multicultural” South Korea presents itself yet again as a caring supporter of Vietnamese migrant wives. It is through...

...Zachary Samuel Gottesman Abstract Wonderful Days (2003) was supposed to be the global breakthrough of Korean animation. After decades of government neglect and labor-intensive outsourcing work, the film aspired to show the world Korea's new technical prowess in animation, combining 2-D, 3-D...

... to treat depictions of work as direct representations of actual socioeconomic conditions, overlooking the affective, experiential dimensions of mediated work images and their potential for imagining social relations beyond imposed precarity. The article explores this neglected potential by focusing...

... workers. By looking at who benefits from the literal and metaphorical fruits of demolition, Steffen demonstrates how the uneven temporality of state-endorsed neglect challenges official narratives of constant progress. Neglect, as Steffen shows, is a generative process, which produces alternative...

... dispositions that are produced in the village can easily be neglected in the final product. For example, a certain activity, building, or even ritual may occur entirely in response to the researcher’s recommendation or reputation. A villager who...

... for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect 2010 ). At the time, around 90 percent of Japanese state wards were placed in child welfare institutions, and the national average of family foster care placements hovered around 9 percent, so this quick local transformation was noteworthy. 3 Within the narrow field...

... that, existing putatively outside philosophy, constitute the lion’s share of Japan studies research. What at least partly accounts for this neglect is the fact that Kyoto School philosophy, with which this debate is concerned, is regarded as a mere...

...- ies) suffers from the very charges that Ahmad makes against Orientalism. While criticizing Said’s text for ignoring the extra-textual, Ahmad neglects the extra-textual effectiveness of the text and descends into political idealism...

... in the revolutionary struggle to the working class, it had not neglected peasant work, and had led major peas- ant movements in Bengal in 1946-1948 and in what is now the state of Andhra Pradesh in 1946- 1951.6 What was unusual...

...- tural production has remained tied to a metropolitan historicism, which has Guest Editors’ Introduction 5 neglected the wide-ranging social and political relations between margin and margin. Ironically, as Vijay...

... described by teachers and other adults as having been “neglected” by their parents and caregivers and as running “wild” ( liar ) in the forest. The village head said these children faced discrimination and social stigma in the community, and some left the village to go to the local market to scavenge, beg...

...:1  Spring 2006 222 TM: I always feel a lot of guilt toward my mother. I feel that I have neglected her. Just like how women are neglected in most patriarchal societies. Of course such a neglect...

... on journal- ism’s devotion to the ‘as is’ ” to reorient the news.2 Consequently, “by leav- ing out cues of causality, impact, complication, effect, and their distinction between death by neglect, accident, or design, images of the ‘as if’ offer...

... of postwar Japan and of global civil society. It overturned the fatal mistakes of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) in 1946, namely, declaring the impunity of the emperor, neglecting to address Japan’s Kim Global Civil Society Remakes History...

... to the public will and the public needs of society? If our eyes are fixed only on government officials and political power, then we are tacitly neglecting and even scorning the tendencies of the masses. When we merely search the government...

... unsustainable in the late nineteenth cen- tury with the emergence of new architectures and urban centers of trade and power under the British, havelis have struggled to survive, especially in locations beset by modern civic neglect. The residents...