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positions (2008) 16 (3): 491–505.
Published: 01 August 2008
... scarce resources, Chinese peasants should revive traditional patterns of small peasantry in growing grain and raising pigs at the same time and use natural energy conducive to environmental protection. Peasants should also organize themselves and, through collective effort and cooperative labor...
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 497–526.
Published: 01 May 2012
... construct a morally ideal maternal subject who recognizes that appropriate child rearing requires particular family configurations, material resources, and forms of knowledge. At the same time, ascribing such notions of personhood, self-improvement, and expertise to a global neoliberal advance ignores...
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positions (2016) 24 (3): 693–719.
Published: 01 August 2016
... by the nation to its subjects presents the figure of the “citizen” as its teleology, nonnational resources are mobilized to configure the subject of the region. Rather than a historical development, this performative subject, who works with multiple horizons of universality, is foundational to the formation...
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positions (2018) 26 (4): 561–592.
Published: 01 November 2018
... to their place in the economic structures of Chinese society. Productive and reproductive work (past and present) are therefore main fields of research. The distinctive terminological mark of socialist feminism, however, is its emphasis on China’s socialist past as a legacy and resource for today’s society...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 377–407.
Published: 01 May 2022
... in a pattern of youth mobility the author calls “transperipheral educational mobility.” This type of mobility refers to the transnational movement of less-privileged, that is low-resourced, South Korean youth from peripheral regions in South Korea to peripheral cities in the Philippines for the purpose...
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 107–128.
Published: 01 February 2024
... for the well-being of people beyond one's immediate family in the form of organized charity and volunteerism offers opportunities for many ordinary people with limited resources to engage socially and politically in ways that are central to their experience of the good life in contemporary China. Unlike...
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 129–154.
Published: 01 February 2016
... industry's presence in China has allowed government authorities to outsource intimate labor to highly resourced foreign groups that are motivated by their own child-saving agendas. This case study illustrates the ethical and material complexities that link commodified processes of global capitalism...
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 179–203.
Published: 01 February 2016
... hostesses, the author's ethnography reveals the ways in which power differentials are deployed by hostesses and club owners as a resource to incite the discourse of benevolence and rescue that attracts US GI customers to the clubs. By engaging the US military camp town as a space of migrant encounter...
Journal Article
positions 11306808.
Published: 07 August 2024
... villages in southern China, this article presents research into how migrant mothers become trapped in the mismatches between the Euro-American, urban middle-class ideology of intensive mothering and their own position in the social class hierarchy. With limited economic and cultural resources, learning...
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positions (2004) 12 (1): 237–246.
Published: 01 February 2004
...
capita resources (ranked lower than 160th in the world), the contradictions
between resources and development and between the environment and
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positions (2007) 15 (2): 251–284.
Published: 01 May 2007
... rendered
all resources except labor scarce and this, in turn, made profitable innova-
tions increasingly problematic. In Elvin’s words:
With falling surplus in agriculture, and so falling per capita income
and per...
Journal Article
positions (2024) 32 (2): 371–398.
Published: 01 May 2024
... mudslides and landslides. Qiang villagers’ difficulties in restoring renqing and qi , key aspects that make a home a set of resourceful and meaningful relations and hopes, provide important lessons on how localized perceptions and practices can guide reconstruction projects serving populations recovering...
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positions (2021) 29 (4): 809–834.
Published: 01 November 2021
... in his article for this issue, economic governance in Mao's China was centered on channeling resources toward the production of specific economic resources considered critical to building Chinese socialism. Most consequential on a structural level was the ideological view inherited from the Soviet Union...
Journal Article
positions (2004) 12 (1): 71–91.
Published: 01 February 2004
... into the modern state. It means the expansion of state control
over natural resources. It is not a learning process in which people learn how
to strengthen their capacity in order to cope with external changes.
We need to examine development as a process...
Journal Article
positions (2004) 12 (1): 203–235.
Published: 01 February 2004
... with the limited resources
they have, and from grasping my complicity in a status quo so detrimental to
their well-being. But the relating can sometimes be quite awkward because
of the immense differences between us.
TEB: There is a long...
Journal Article
positions (2010) 18 (1): 253–277.
Published: 01 February 2010
... by stakeholders at higher and
lower levels of the administrative hierarchy. The local governments then
use the megaprojects to consolidate power and resources while restructur-
ing the already overwhelmed local public-private ownership structure...
Journal Article
positions (2021) 29 (1): 163–182.
Published: 01 February 2021
... their usurpation of indig- enous people s rights to self- determination and their claims to their land and other economic resources in the name of national interests. Indeed, in the encounter between nation- states and indigenous society in Southeast Asia, civilizing the margins has become a common policy...
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positions (2021) 29 (1): 183–202.
Published: 01 February 2021
... The ocean, in this case, is that which separates and connects; it is that which also constitutes, provides reasons, and provides resources, as much as it gets changed or transformed by those who inhabit it. In the diaspora specifically, in the students school the ocean is contemplated as the world...
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 191–208.
Published: 01 February 2024
... the educated, urban middle class. We lay out this argument first by situating the bangbot in the recent political-economic context of Laos as a resource frontier, and outlining the specifics of this imaginary. We then present in detail the ways in which bangbot appeared during the anti-colonial struggle...
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positions (2007) 15 (2): 211–224.
Published: 01 May 2007
... of Southeast Asian Nations, plus Korea, China, and Japan)
promote greater regional integration through inter-Asian flows of capital,
resources, and labor. At the same time, Asia has also increasingly become
the qualifier of a new media-scape (e.g...
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