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positions (1993) 1 (1): 160–193.
Published: 01 February 1993
...Lydia H. Liu Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Translingual Practice:
The Discourse of Individualism between China and the West
Lydia H. Liu
The meaning of a word is its use in the language.-Wittgenstein
The concept...
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 679–703.
Published: 01 November 2022
... know little about how media forms other than the written word contributed to this conversation. To address these gaps in our understanding, this article investigates how the practice of cinema, through the paradigmatic example of Ōshima Nagisa's film Kōshikei 絞死刑 ( Death by Hanging ) (1968), intervened...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 323–352.
Published: 01 May 2022
... the scope of this article), 1 I argue that the understandings of integration and assimilation developed in the migration literature are useful for grasping the context in which de facto stateless children in Cambodia negotiate “place belonging” (Antonsich 2010 ). Cambodia's state practice of ethno...
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 49–67.
Published: 01 February 2024
... . Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9178-6_13 . Hansen Arve . 2018 . “ Meat Consumption and Capitalist Development: The Meatification of Food Provision and Practice in Vietnam .” Geoforum 93 : 57 – 68 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.05.008...
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positions (2004) 12 (3): 611–641.
Published: 01 August 2004
... as significant a role in the discursive practice
as in art-making, foregrounding the concept of gendai (an adjectival noun,
meaning “contemporary”) and engendering the local discourses on gendai
bijutsu.
In this essay, I will examine...
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positions (2017) 25 (2): 351–387.
Published: 01 May 2017
... society. Tanigawa's writing itself—his practice of holding politics and poetics immanent to the flux or energy of the historicity of the struggle of the oppressed, to the historical event of their dispossession—remains a powerful site of analysis for us today. In contemporary Japan, where the struggles...
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positions (2013) 21 (3): 547–577.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Robert Oppenheim This article makes a case, in the study of Korea's colonial modern transition, for supplementing the examination of writings with attention to historical modalities of writing itself considered as a material inscriptive practice, and thus also for the interdisciplinary engagement...
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positions (2013) 21 (3): 703–723.
Published: 01 August 2013
.... Kerner frames the discussion by noting that there are in effect two different types of “butoh film”; on the one hand, there are films that document, constituting a record of an event, and on the other hand, there are films that integrate butoh elements into the practice of filmmaking itself. Iimura's...
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positions (2014) 22 (2): 489–515.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Luke Robinson This article addresses the use of the human voice in contemporary Chinese independent documentary in relation to xianchang . Broadly analogous to the Anglophone concept of “liveness,” xianchang is a shooting practice that interrogates questions of immediacy (being “on the scene...
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positions (2016) 24 (2): 513–554.
Published: 01 May 2016
... Takeuchi and Wang each drew on Lu Xun to develop a new vision of politics at times when narratives and processes associated with the nation-state and capitalism eclipsed critical political practice. Intellectuals in both interwar Japan and post-Mao China stressed an evolutionary vision of modernity...
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positions (2011) 19 (3): 627–651.
Published: 01 August 2011
... and practice, as well as his comments on contemporary China reveal his Eurocentric biases and a habit of aestheticizing or poeticizing revolutionary practice. Žižek's misreading of Mao and China is largely based on abstract theorization, divorced from concrete specificity and historicity. His ultimate...
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positions (2013) 21 (1): 189–221.
Published: 01 February 2013
...Kenneth Paul Tan Forum theater is an interactive practice whose “third-world” revolutionary origins have been transposed into techniques for dealing with “oppressions” within bourgeois societies. By constructing an analytical framework that articulates a Marcusean “one-dimensional society” approach...
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positions (2014) 22 (2): 371–402.
Published: 01 May 2014
... around these female impersonators. Taking a cue from the work of feminist film historian Miriam Hansen, my study devotes particular attention to how opponents of the oyama often linked their criticism of the practice with disapproving commentary on the troublesome impact that the female fans...
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positions (2020) 28 (1): 237–274.
Published: 01 February 2020
... to a pervading mode of artistic practice that highlights collaboration, networking, and the making of relations, events, and situations. This performative approach also invokes all artists to become theory makers of their own practice. Contemporary Women s Art in Hong Kong Reframed: Performative Research...
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positions (2021) 29 (1): 163–182.
Published: 01 February 2021
... is the practice of Penan storytelling ( tosok ), which plays a remarkably effective exogenous role in engaging the attention of everyone from state functionaries to visiting anthropologists while continuing to perform the endogenous function of reinforcing community bonds. The role of storytelling in mediating...
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 895–921.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of Chinese cultural practice, the practices of shanzhai reveal that material and symbolic recombination are essential to creative imitation. [email protected] Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 imitation creativity shanzhai China Wa The Wa State of Myanmar looks like...
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positions (2023) 31 (4): 893–918.
Published: 01 November 2023
... led to practices in participatory documentary‐making. Collectively, these efforts in archival practice and filmmaking give birth to an ethic of immediation in humanitarianism. Thailand's next generation is engaged in recalling memories of past state violence and questioning the present authoritarian...
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 321–349.
Published: 01 May 2010
... that it is no longer viable as a legal institution, though is it not extinct as practice in both privileged and nonprivileged forms), against which an embattled wife-in-monogamy is sculpted in relief. The wife-in-monogamy in such a cultural-social milieu is thus constitutively produced as always at risk. Fictional...
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positions (2010) 18 (1): 253–277.
Published: 01 February 2010
... industrialization. Through this process, a fractured system emerged for the public and private meanings attached to informatization and to the city itself. This was manifested in everyday practice and discourse among local policymakers, entrepreneurs in both new and old economies, and average residents...
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 379–401.
Published: 01 May 2012
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as hegemonic and a product of universal (and thus again inevitable) capital-
ist restructuring.7
Despite our reservations, this framing allows us to closely examine
through ethnographic practice the multiple and uneven logics and ideologies...
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