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Beyond Envy, Boredom, and Suffering: Toward an Emancipatory Politics for Resident Koreans and Other Japanese
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positions (1993) 1 (3): 640–670.
Published: 01 August 1993
...Norma Field Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Beyond Envy, Boredom, and Suffering:
Toward an Emancipatory Politics for Resident Koreans and Other Japanese
Norma Field
On Writing about People Not One's Own
Born to a Japanese mother and an American...
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“Isahama Women Farmers” against Enclosure: A Rejection of the Property Relation in US-Occupied Okinawa
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positions (2020) 28 (3): 547–574.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Wendy Matsumura In July 1954, the US military notified residents of Isahama, Ginowan, in the central part of Okinawa Island, of their evictions from their lands. Despite immediate opposition by residents, the military rejected all appeals on the grounds that this and other evictions were necessary...
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Filming the Queerness of Comfort Women: Byun Young-Joo's The Murmuring , 1995
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positions (2014) 22 (1): 7–39.
Published: 01 February 2014
... the discourse of normalcy surrounding former comfort women who must endlessly negotiate with the social regulations of womanhood. Bodily desires are emphatically configured in Byun's film even in standard interview scenes, and the architectural setting of the former comfort women's residence (the House...
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Grassroots Perspectives on Relocation: Threats and Opportunities
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positions (2014) 22 (3): 661–689.
Published: 01 August 2014
... compensation payment. The article considers how villagers view relocation; the relative value they place on industry, development, and land; and discourses in which industrial development and tourism are concurrently evaluated. In the relative absence of a welfare state to protect them, rural residents regard...
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Intangible Cultural Heritage and New Communities of Knowledge Production: An Analysis Based on Village Studies
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positions (2014) 22 (3): 721–740.
Published: 01 August 2014
... these villages and academia becomes increasingly inseparable. Situated between academia and the village itself, between words and things, intangible cultural heritage is actually the product of dialogues and debates between the academy and villagers, between scholars and rural residents. A community of knowledge...
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The Multiple Contexts of Protest: Reflections on the Reception of the MIT Visualizing Cultures Project and the Anti-Right Japanese Demonstration in Shanghai
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positions (2015) 23 (1): 59–90.
Published: 01 February 2015
... media coverage, and also in the particular local and transnational contexts of Shanghai, a rising global city with a large resident foreign population, including the largest Japanese population in any city in the world outside Japan. The interpretations of the protest thus developed across a series...
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Language Travels and Global Aspirations of Korean Youth
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positions (2015) 23 (3): 565–593.
Published: 01 August 2015
... travelers, these are short-term, semistructured “international experiences” beyond mere language training, and they are widely perceived as necessary for enhancing one's value and career prospects in the competitive job market back home. Based on an in-depth study of temporary Korean residents in Vancouver...
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A City of Ten Years: Public/Private Internet Development in Nanhai
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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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Civilizing the City: Socialist Ruins and Urban Renewal in Central Vietnam
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 437–470.
Published: 01 May 2012
... aid, technology, and urban planning expertise. A primary focus of urban reconstruction was Quang Trung communal housing, consisting of eighteen hundred apartments and dormitories in five-story buildings that housed more than eight thousand residents, mainly workers and veterans in need of housing...
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Imagining Irreconcilability: Cultural Differentiation Through Human-Animal Relations in Late Qing Shanghai
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positions (2012) 20 (4): 1159–1189.
Published: 01 November 2012
... of city residents on points of difference, and the circulation of representations of difference — of an apparent Chinese indifference to cruelty, and of an Anglo-US disregard of certain cosmological forces of retribution — produced a legacy of cultural differentiation in Shanghai that strained Sino...
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Summer Happiness: Performing the Good Life in a Tibetan Town
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 171–189.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Fan Zhang Abstract This ethnographic article focuses on the performance of Alce Lhamo ( Sister Goddess ) in Lithang, a Tibetan town on the western tip of Sichuan Province in China. It explores the linkages between local ways of residing in the world, the cosmological universe, and cosmopolitan...
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The Hot Sun and the Mad Moon: Hiroshima in South African Literature
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positions (2017) 25 (3): 507–526.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Daniel McKay In 1926 a new shipping route was established between Durban and Osaka, on which Laurens van der Post and William Plomer, fresh from their collaboration as writers for the literary magazine Voorslag , embarked as privileged passengers. The opportunity to reside in Japan would exercise...
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Unlocking the Mindware: The Responsibility of Building a Solipsistic Universe in Murakami Haruki’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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positions (2018) 26 (4): 749–780.
Published: 01 November 2018
... and absolve the residents of all earthly memories. As the tale progresses, the coder learns that he is the sole survivor among test subjects who received neurosurgical implants that use the human brain as an encryption mechanism, while the librarian realizes that he is the coder’s imaginary alter ego born out...
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Lesbian and Gay Parents, Heterosexual Kinship, and Queer Dreams: Making Families in Twenty-First Century Taiwan
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positions (2021) 29 (3): 633–656.
Published: 01 August 2021
... and the familial contexts in which they reside and carry out their daily lives. Many are rearing children in multigenerational, extended family households and are juggling a variety of gendered family roles and responsibilities that shape their parenting practices. Their experiences highlight the limits of rights...
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Children's Experience and Practice of Belonging: The Realities of Integration among De Facto Stateless Vietnamese Children in Cambodia
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 323–352.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Charlie Rumsby Abstract Vietnamese populations currently residing in Cambodia can be broadly divided into two categories: long-term settlers who have lived in Cambodia for generations and more recent economic migrants. This article focuses on the former group, as it is their children...
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The Fruits of Demolition: Generative Neglect in Zhengzhou's Urban Villages
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 571–594.
Published: 01 August 2022
... of the year. This article examines key players in the demolitions, such as the chaierdai 拆二代 (rich-through-demolition), zhengfu 政府 (government), renmin 人民 (people), residents of the urban core, and evicted migrant workers. Looking at who benefits from the literal and metaphorical fruits of demolition reveals...
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Low-End Accumulation: Spatial Transformation and Social Stratification in a Beijing Urban Village
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 619–640.
Published: 01 August 2022
... (apartment complex), a low-rent housing complex where the fire broke out. Based on fieldwork in Beijing's northern fringe, this article examines the spatial transformation of residences from cramped one-story farmhouses to gongyu and how it signals the social stratification of migrant tenants. The emergence...
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Metropolis Ecologies: Yin Xiuzhen’s Parallel Cities
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positions (2020) 28 (1): 145–175.
Published: 01 February 2020
... the contemporary art world. The author’s inquiry suggests that Yin’s reluctance to embrace her gender identity as central to her ecological art reflects her species-based environmental ethics that goes beyond identity politics. Yin’s ecological focus manifests her situated knowledge as a metropolitan resident...
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Epistemic Labor: Narratives of Hyper-Uncertainty and Future-Making on China's Urban Fringe
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 431–450.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of hyper-uncertainty in which spatial instability negates routinized time and linear accumulation is denied by dramatic market fluctuations and unpredictable displacement. Epistemic labor proves that migrant agency not only resides in eventful resistance but also in constant negotiations. yzhan...
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Face Masks for the Ancestors: Everyday Life and Death during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Urban Hanoi
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positions 11630866.
Published: 27 February 2025
...Gertrud Hüwelmeier Abstract This essay examines the everyday life and death of residents in urban Hanoi during the fourth wave of the pandemic in the summer of 2021. The article considers how city dwellers developed manifold creative strategies to deal with government requirements and argue...
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