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... postindustrial information economy “Days of Love and Labor”: Remediating the Logic of Labor and Debt in Contemporary Japan Michael Fisch In 2012 the popular Japanese weekly magazine Asahi Shimbun Weekly AERA surveyed the Japanese population to determine...

... the vantage point of sexual commerce to under- stand the relationship between intimate labor and changes in the political economy.15 For example, Elizabeth Bernstein examines how gentrification in postindustrial cities moved sexual commerce indoors...

...Minh T. N. Nguyen; Phill Wilcox; Jake Lin Abstract The emergent quest for the good life in rapidly transforming China, Laos, and Vietnam can only be understood as part of the political economy of late socialism. This special issue critically engages with the notion of the good life and its...

... capitalism (Neilson and Rossiter 2008 ) and the abstract sensations of vulnerability that they engender (Ettlinger 2007 ). Precarity is one of the semiconscious structures described by Lauren Berlant ( 2011 : 18) as “post-Fordist affect,” or “the sensorium making its way through a postindustrial present...

...’ rights move- ment in Europe and North America, which stresses entrepreneurship within a capitalist economy? Or are there other ways to conceptualize Third World prostitution? positions 7:’ 0 1999 by Duke...

... 191 understanding a concrete situation in a certain political interest. There is an enormous body of political-economic analysis concerned with the financial crisis. I have no disciplinary expertise in political economy, but I can learn...

... Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press . Chang Kyung-Sup . 1999 . “ Compressed Modernity and Its Discontents: South Korean Society in Transition .” Economy and Society 28 , no. 1 : 30 – 55 . Cho Heekyoung . 2016 . “ The Webtoon...

... or as a rejection of it (them 2. Postmodernism as a cultural notion is connected somehow with post- modernity, the contemporary socioeconomic period, sometimes referred to as postindustrial society or late capitalism...

.... Resistance: Operation Safe Cab Our first campaign, Operation Safe Cab, began in December 1992, around the same time as the LDC hired its first paid organizer, Mobashar Khalil. Because the informal economy lacks regulation, its workers...

...Gabriella Lukacs This essay analyzes how the digital media economy harnesses young people's search for meaningful work to develop new apparatuses and mechanisms of extracting value from activities that are not typically recognized as work. Drawing on interviews with net idols and an analysis...

... point of connection among these countries is that they all adopted developmental state models in the early postwar period. Chalmers Johnson argues that while most states regulate their economies by protecting their citizens from the failures...

... and Vietnam, because of their integration into the regional Asian economies, with the core postindustrial economy of Japan and the boom economies of Taiwan and Korea, consequently score better in global-governance terms than do...

...Shu-mei Shih Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 The Trope of ”Mainland China” in Taiwan‘s Media Shu-mei Shih Most discussions of cultural forms in Taiwan today need to be contextual- ized in a cultural economy that ineluctably...

... represents South Korean animation’s defeat by American and Japanese monopoly capitalism. It then analyzes contradictions in the film’s aesthetics and narrative to show the incompatibility of these countries' postindustrial, eco-utopian ideology with persistent Korean manufacturing dependency and proletarian...

... reconfiguration of the global political economy has drawn renewed attention to the emergence of East Asia as a dynamic and increasingly integrated economic zone. This regional dynamism and integration derives in part from the Cold War itself...

... for information, data, and images outside of commerce. Whereas the porous borders between the homeless, service workers, artists, activists, and intellectuals that Cheang imagines in Fresh Kill might seem be- yond belief to some, these fictional channels...

... of the aging population in postindustrial societies. East Asian coun- tries, facing a similar problem of care deficit, have recruited migrant work- ers from Southeast Asia in the fields of health and social welfare. Geriatric care, which...

... between people and endemic charismatic megafauna, fuel a transnational economy. It is based on ethnographic research conducted in Sarawak, Malaysia, and Chiang Mai, Thailand, between 2008 and 2010. Ultimately, it helps show how a global industry is produced through the commodification of intimate...

... of globalization, which is that it is an economic form of globalization in which these big corporations are a big part of the economy. Yet the people who are running the economy aren’t into this vision that many of us are seeing of a more just global world...

... on their behalf, supporting them through counseling and information about labor rights, and influencing public opinion through the mass media. It also frequently allies with other groups to protest war, sexism, environmental destruction, racism...