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positions (2014) 22 (1): 41–69.
Published: 01 February 2014
...Carl Cassegard The precarity movement (or antipoverty movement) represents a startling revival of public protest in Japan. This revival can be understood as a turn to a more confrontational stance within an already active current of freeter activism. My aim is to throw light on this shift...
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 171–202.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Brett Hack Abstract This article analyzes depictions of work in postmillennial Japanese media, particularly anime and manga, in order to theorize the function of imaginative responses to the social dislocations of neoliberalism. Critical studies of precarity in Japanese popular culture have tended...
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positions (2017) 25 (4): 745–767.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Minwoo Jung South Korea's economic restructuring following the 1997–98 Asian financial crisis increased deregulation, privatization, and labor flexibility, creating new forms of social precarity. This article examines this precarity to rethink the relationship between macrolevel social changes...
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positions (2018) 26 (3): 516–546.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Mun Young Cho How do recent transnational encounters in East Asia help us explore the condition of poverty amidst increasingly unpredictable global and national political economy? Against a backdrop of East Asian “postmiracle” times, this article sheds light on the precarity of South Korean...
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positions (2015) 23 (3): 487–513.
Published: 01 August 2015
... to maintaining the socioeconomic order of the high-growth period, women's unpaid emotional labor remains central to a society in which labor precarity generates a demand for emotional labor. At the same time, by promoting to young people digital media as tools they can utilize to develop new skills, the digital...
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positions (2021) 29 (2): 319–346.
Published: 01 May 2021
... intimacy and recovery, which look to cultivate limitless public access to a knowable and transparent subject while reducing structural precarity to the failure of an exceptional Punjabi, this article hesitates in a vexed archival space without guarantees. Within this hesitation, it explores the traces...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 549–570.
Published: 01 August 2022
... and accumulation. The containerization of migrant housing entails a multifaceted process of extraction of labor and land, during which migrants’ mobility and sense of entitlement are highly contained. Container housing represents migrants’ sociospatial precarity in China's exclusive urban citizenship and place...
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 February 2023
... themes now consuming scholarship, of which neoliberalism is just one, emerge in Brett Hack's “Working Worlds in Neoliberal Japan: Precarity, Imagination, and the ‘Other-World’ Trope.” In this study the focus is isekai , which Hack uses to pry open the mediated process of social imagination. A truly...
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positions (2014) 22 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 February 2014
...! Empowerment and the Rhetoric of
Life in the Japanese Precarity Movement,” tracks political “freeters — young
men and women without regular employment,” who are making common
cause with the homeless, immigrants, recently jobless elders, eccentrics...
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positions (2015) 23 (3): 545–564.
Published: 01 August 2015
... Managers) had previously called for limiting wage
increases, what was new at this time was an explicit strategy for extending
labor precarity to permanent salaried workers through extensive stratifica-
tion. This strategy was introduced first...
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positions (2014) 22 (1): 293–294.
Published: 01 February 2014
... 2014 Contributors
Carl Cassegard is associate professor of sociology at the Department of Sociology,
University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He is currently researching the precarity movement
and the environmental...
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positions (2020) 28 (4): 935–936.
Published: 01 November 2020
... literature, literary representations of precarity, and cultural responses to the 3/11 Fukushima disaster of 2011. Young Ji Lee teaches East Asian art history and visual culture at Duke University. She is cur- rently working on a book manuscript entitled Inventing a Visual Currency: Socialist Realism and East...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 523–547.
Published: 01 August 2022
... and the Politics of Looking in Postsocialist China .” In Capitalism and the Camera , edited by Coleman Kevin and James Daniel , 209 – 25 . London : Verso . Lee Ching Kwan . 2016 . “ Precarization or Empowerment? Reflections on Recent Labor Unrest in China .” Journal of Asian Studies...
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positions (2022) 30 (1): 85–110.
Published: 01 February 2022
... be directed to “give a fig” in moments of national ceremony or holiday, a phenomenon that Zeruvabel ( 2003 ) calls “mnemonic synchronization.” Otherwise, people “give a fig” only in moments of national precarity, when sovereignty, legitimacy, history, and identity or some aspects of them are in crisis...
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positions (2021) 29 (3): 633–656.
Published: 01 August 2021
... parents and prospective parents. I begin by acquainting readers with the socio-legal landscape and the conditions of legal precarity that my informants navigate as they create and care for their families. Efforts are underway to transform the law and how it is interpreted to privilege heterosexual parents...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 411–427.
Published: 01 August 2022
... imaginings of precarity among the migrant population. These imaginings are different from the structure and experience of precarity examined in postwelfare states like the United States and Japan (Allison 2013 ; Standing 2011 ). Upwardly mobile students, small-scale entrepreneurs, and members of criminal...
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positions (2017) 25 (3): 595–629.
Published: 01 August 2017
... in the colonial
past but performative in the current techno-biopolitical moment of risk and
precarity management (Taylor 2003).
I trace aesthetic features of affect on private/public and singular/collective
axes in two texts...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 219–243.
Published: 01 May 2022
... at the International Workshop on Addressing Multiple Forms of Migrant Precarity—Beyond Management to an Integrated Rights-Based Approach, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Palais des Nations, Geneva , September 24 . Ho Chaang-luan , Lin Pi-Yueh , and Huang Shu-Chin...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 377–407.
Published: 01 May 2022
... capital companies, and creative industries among unemployed youth so they can manage the labor precarity that increased in the wake of the 1997 Asian financial crisis. However, such initiatives target youth that possess certain commodifiable educational capital such as technological skills or other forms...
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positions (2017) 25 (4): 633–644.
Published: 01 November 2017
...
Seoul” uses the cases of three young adults living in new forms of substan-
dard housing in the Seoul metropolitan area to describe precarity not sim-
ply in terms of labor relations but also in terms of spatial forms and social
relationships...
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