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positions (2012) 20 (1): 37–65.
Published: 01 February 2012
... in which culturalism came to displace the more agonistic framework of class analysis, the essay explores transformations in the concept of political subjectivity, and the degree to which theatricalized expressions of discontent came to stand in for other kinds of politicization. I suggest...
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positions (2020) 28 (3): 631–657.
Published: 01 August 2020
..., Feminism, Sexuality .” In Red Love across the Pacific: Political and Sexual Revolutions of the Twentieth Century , edited by Barraclough Ruth Bowen-Struyk Heather Rabinowitz Paula , 23 – 37 . New York : Palgrave Macmillan . Butler Judith . 1990 . Gender Trouble: Feminism...
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positions (2020) 28 (4): 789–814.
Published: 01 November 2020
... were more than devices to suppress political dissent. Instead, reformatories played productive functions for the Guomindang state. First, reformatories’ in-house magazines conjured up an anticommunist figure of the Communist that combined the excesses of urban capitalism and the residues of China’s...
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positions (2021) 29 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 February 2021
... attached to them, formed in the milieu of overlapping and competing European, US, and Southeast Asian empires and diasporas. By investigating the forms and politics of storytelling in the island South and Southeast Asia, along with parallel and intersecting formations in the Caribbean and diasporic Asian...
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positions (2021) 29 (4): 675–688.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Fabio Lanza Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Personally, I have always thought that writing history is a political act—and I have always acted...
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positions (2021) 29 (4): 835–868.
Published: 01 November 2021
... by which societies become totalistically politicized, that can accommodate the obvious fact of coercion in creating and reproducing new forms of social order, whether in China or elsewhere. I also think that present-day politics demand we point to this coercion without valorizing it. Does this mean...
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positions (2021) 29 (4): 809–834.
Published: 01 November 2021
... available documentation with the aim of comprehending the economic practices of Mao's China on their own terms. Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 political economy PRC history socialist development state capitalism Cold War If someone publicly declares today that China failed...
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 679–703.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Ferran de Vargas Abstract Although much has been written about the political theories of several thinkers associated with the Japanese New Left, to gain a better understanding of those theories a perspective that conceives them as a conversation within a unitary ideology is needed. Likewise, we...
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 143–169.
Published: 01 February 2023
... (Urciuli and LaDousa 2013 ). Within this body of literature, many authors document the expansion of English as the default language of the “neoliberal empire” (Phillipson 2008 ), driven by the United States and the export of its own economic model, imagined as a precondition for political liberty even...
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positions (2022) 30 (1): 85–110.
Published: 01 February 2022
... generated political and historical pedagogy to ensure national memory. 2 Inside there are seven exhibit halls with themes such as “Gyŏreŭi Siryŏn” 겨레의 시련 (“National Crisis by Japanese Imperialism”), “Naradoech'akki” 나라되찾기 (“Patriotic Struggle for National Independence”), and “Saenara Seugi” 새나라 세우기...
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positions (2017) 25 (4): 821–842.
Published: 01 November 2017
... movement in the United States or the bodies of political leaders such as Pres- ident Recep Tayyip Erdogan as he made a Facetime call to CNN Türk dur- ing the military coup. The image of the body becomes politicized through public insertion...
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positions (2001) 9 (1): 187–217.
Published: 01 February 2001
...Peter Nickerson 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 A Poetics and Politics of Possession: Taiwanese Spirit-Medium Cults and Autonomous Popular Cultural Space Peter Nickerson My intent in this essay is to discuss cults of spirit possession and healing...
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 463–498.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Benjamin McKay The article investigates the disjunctive mirroring of images and representations through films that evoke the larger socioeconomic and political relations between Singapore and the Philippines. The two films analyzed are about related plights of Filipina domestic workers in Singapore...
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positions (2005) 13 (3): 575–634.
Published: 01 August 2005
... ongoing work, it is the slight but significant displacement from the idea of politicizing history, which still assumes a relatively external anchoring of politics in history understood at the level of social and economical being...
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positions (2011) 19 (1): 7–29.
Published: 01 February 2011
..., and philosophically incoherent, but also as moral pioneers. Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Sexing the Fetus: Feminist Politics and Method across Cultures Mary E. John The sonogram is literally a pedagogy for learning to see who exists in the world...
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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 (2018) 26 (3): 450–482.
Published: 01 August 2018
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positions (2019) 27 (1): 99–114.
Published: 01 February 2019
...Étienne Balibar Since the dawn of modernity, there have been two competing “models” to think and represent politics: war (and more generally conflict, or struggle, as in Machiavelli) and commerce (in the broad sense this term had in the classical age, for example in Kant and Montesquieu). These two...
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positions (2002) 10 (2): 333–364.
Published: 01 May 2002
...Sean Hsiang-lin Lei 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 How Did Chinese Medicine Become Experiential? The Political Epistemology of Jingyan Sean Hsiang-lin Lei 1. Translating Experience It is now common wisdom that Chinese medicine, unlike modern biomedi...
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positions (2002) 10 (2): 399–429.
Published: 01 May 2002
...Jon Solomon 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 The Sovereign Police and Knowledgeable Bodies: Liu Xiaobo’s Exilic Critique of Politics and Knowledge Jon Solomon The questions I will raise in this essay concern the status of the exile-refugee...