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positions (2008) 16 (3): 711–742.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Simon Avenell Duke University Press 2008 From the “People” to the “Citizen”:
Tsurumi Shunsuke and the Roots of Civic Mythology in Postwar Japan
Simon Avenell
What could be more emblematic of postwar Japanese democracy than the
spontaneous birth...
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 561–591.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Alfred Montoya Drawing on archival research and fieldwork conducted in Ho Chi Minh City and its environs in 2007–2008, this article examines a shift from a moral-economic model of protection/patronage turning on the long-standing figure of “the People,” to a biopolitical mechanism of power...
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positions (2003) 11 (2): 331–360.
Published: 01 May 2003
...Henrietta Harrison 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Clothing and Power on the Periphery of Empire:
The Costumes of the Indigenous People of Taiwan
Henrietta Harrison
The indigenous people of Taiwan define themselves in part by wearing what
they refer...
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positions (2004) 12 (1): 71–91.
Published: 01 February 2004
...Celia Lowe 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 The Potential of People: An Interview with Chayan Vaddhanaphuti
Celia Lowe
Chayan Vaddhanaphuti is an activist-intellectual who works on land rights
and indigenous knowledge among ethnic minorities...
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positions (1995) 3 (2): 367–391.
Published: 01 May 1995
...Tomiyama Ichirō Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Colonialism and the Sciences of the Tropical Zone:
The Academic Analysis of Difference in "the Island Peoples"
Tomiyama lchird
"The Southern Islands" and the Sciences of the Tropical Zone
The Sciences...
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positions (2021) 29 (4): 719–758.
Published: 01 November 2021
.... , 188 – 243 . New York : Continuum . Hung Chang-tai . 2011 . Mao's New World: Political Culture in the Early People's Republic . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . Jameson Fredric . 1991 . Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism . Durham, NC : Duke...
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positions (2024) 32 (3): 539–572.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Laura Pozzi; Damian Mandzunowski Abstract This article examines how, in the years following the end of the Cultural Revolution (1966–76), Jiang Qing 江青 (1914–91) became a negative icon of a liberated woman in high office in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). During the Cultural Revolution, Jiang...
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 203–227.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Michael Berman Abstract In Kamaishi, a city in the Tōhoku region of Japan, the aging of the population and the 2011 earthquake and tsunami changed people's relationships to time and place. For many people, “time stopped” when disaster struck. That stoppage compounded a weakening of the appeal...
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 107–128.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Jiazhi Fengjiang Abstract For ordinary people in late-socialist China, the good life seems to be singularly shaped: in the future and the elsewhere, it is oriented toward one's own well-being and the well-being of future generations. This article aims to open up discussion about the different...
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positions (2015) 23 (3): 437–462.
Published: 01 August 2015
... invested in their initiatives out of concern for future economic development. By the late 2000s, however, a new neoliberal youth subject came to dominate South Korea. Having internalized the ruthless competition on the labor market, these young people centered their lives on building “specs...
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positions (2016) 24 (3): 589–619.
Published: 01 August 2016
... of shanzhai, I argue, makes visible an imaginary of collectivity, one that disrupts the state's continuous claim to “the nation” as a signifier for “the people.” To realign the national interest with that of “the people,” state media reshapes the shanzhai discourse by separating “shanzhai economy” from...
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 February 2024
... ramifications in late-socialist social life through the perspectives of people and communities living amid political economic changes. In this introduction, we weave together the volume's nine empirical contributions by conceptualizing the good life as a field of struggle in which people grapple...
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positions (2014) 22 (3): 635–659.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Lili Lai The phenomenon of “modernization indoors, dirt and chaos outdoors” ( shinei xiandaihua, shiwai zangluancha ) is now prevalent all over rural China. This article attends to the political and economic roots and social determinants of “dirty villages,” aiming to show how people's...
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positions (2016) 24 (4): 789–812.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Nicholas de Villiers; Yongan Wu Zhang Bingjian's documentary Readymade (2008) focuses on the lives of two Mao Zedong impersonators in the People's Republic of China: Mr. Peng Tian, a forty-six-year-old farmer from Hunan Province enrolled in the performance art program of Beijing Film Academy...
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positions (2011) 19 (1): 159–191.
Published: 01 February 2011
...Suk-Young Kim North Korea is a fashion-conscious nation where political leaders are preoccupied with how to dress the nation's people through rigid social practices, such as imposing military-style uniforms to various social sectors and systematically recommending certain designs to civilians...
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positions (2021) 29 (2): 423–450.
Published: 01 May 2021
... uses the Marxist‐tainted term shaoshu minzu (ethnic minorities) as the official designation for the non‐Han people, the concept of indigeneity is irrelevant to understanding China and its ethnic diversity. This article investigates how reform‐era China has witnessed the emergence of an indigenous...
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 735–762.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of disability movements that aimed to challenge the inaccessibility and cruelty of a society made by and for nondisabled people. Yokota was involved with two key groups of this kind—the literary coterie Shinonome and the activist group Aoi Shiba no Kai—and over several decades published multiple books about...
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positions (2024) 32 (4): 771–796.
Published: 01 November 2024
... elucidate between state-led transnationalism “from above” and the myriad forms of transnationalism “from below” instantiated in the lived experiences of ordinary people. From an ethnographic perspective, this issue considers a wide range of transnational movements affecting cultural life within and beyond...
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 27–47.
Published: 01 February 2024
... technification of the domestic sphere. Modern households are increasingly equipped with a variety of electric appliances that not only provide convenience and comfort but also serve as markers of social distinction. This essay explores the history of domestic electrification and people's aspirations to live...
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positions (2010) 18 (1): 89–143.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Barry Sautman In May 2008 Time magazine's annual “ Time 100” list of influential people in the world put the Dalai Lama at the top. This outcome was related to the preceding six weeks of protests in Tibet and attendant Western criticisms of China's Tibet policies, but it also reflected the two...
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