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positions (2004) 12 (1): 247–259.
Published: 01 February 2004
...Tani E. Barlow 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Responsibility and Politics: An Interview with Mark Selden Tani E. Barlow Mark Selden teaches sociology and history at Binghamton University and is professorial associate in East Asian studies...
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positions (2018) 26 (4): 749–780.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Haerin Shin “Unlocking the Mindware: Taking Responsibility for the Solipsistic Self in Murakami Haruki’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World ” addresses the issue of identity formation in relation to neuroscientific technologies by observing a phenomenon called (self-imposed) “locked...
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positions (2004) 12 (1): 139–163.
Published: 01 February 2004
...Tani E. Barlow 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Not Really a Properly Intellectual Response: An Interview with Gayatri Spivak Tani E. Barlow The excess of the new social movements is what I work with. —Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak...
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positions (2008) 16 (3): 761–768.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Wesley Sasaki-Uemura Duke University Press 2008 “A Rectification of Names”: Response to Simon Avenell Wesley Sasaki-Uemura Simon Avenell’s article “From the ‘People’ to the ‘Citizen’ ” plots a trajectory of citizens’ movements from the 1960s...
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positions (2011) 19 (3): 781–798.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Yang Huilin Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 To Reverse Our Premise with the Perverse Core: A Response to Žižek’s “Theology” in Chinese Context Yang Huilin Translated by Yizhong Gu In recent years, the interaction between Christian theology...
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positions (2021) 29 (3): 523–549.
Published: 01 August 2021
... in response to the formal legal system, what it supports and allows. The article uses theorizations of legal consciousness, law's “shadows,” and “order without law” to compare strategies and reactions of Japanese citizens and foreigners engaging the legal system in Japan. It argues that the written...
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positions (2018) 26 (3): 483–515.
Published: 01 August 2018
... of the enlightenment project. Rethinking responsibility was paramount. Where a ground was once provided by the reason of a detached observer, this individual had vanished, undermining the dominant assumptions of aesthetics. Because it corresponded with this unmoored world, cinema offered a place to think this crisis...
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positions (2014) 22 (1): 203–236.
Published: 01 February 2014
... region. First, it examines how the critiques of China's role in Darfur mirrored the discursive premises of an international relations theory known as “good international citizenship” that accused China of forsaking its global moral responsibilities in favor of enhancing its private economic concerns...
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positions (2018) 26 (1): 59–76.
Published: 01 February 2018
..., which is directed against the continuous information-response or stimulus-response apparatus. It assumes that the audience’s interest is always active—not passive, as in the stimulus-response model—and that this interest of the people should influence research and the sociology of audience itself. Herbs...
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positions (2015) 23 (1): 131–144.
Published: 01 February 2015
...William A. Callahan This essay examines how the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) controversy hardened identities in terms of the time-worn template of geopolitical conflict of national stereotypes. It critically analyzes the Chinese students' response to the Visualizing Cultures project...
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positions (2016) 24 (3): 653–667.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Sandra So Hee Chi Kim Regarding her highly acclaimed first book of poetry, Notes from the Divided Country , second-generation Korean American poet Suji Kwock Kim has stated that she considers the representation of the traumatic experiences of the Korean War as “the responsibility that one has...
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positions (2016) 24 (3): 669–692.
Published: 01 August 2016
...EuyRyung Jun In this article, the author discusses how South Korean migrant advocacy that has emerged since the mid-1990s relied on mobilizing the moral responsibility of local civil society and the state on the dehumanizing conditions of foreign workers—most of whom are from China, Southeast Asia...
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positions (2018) 26 (2): 265–304.
Published: 01 May 2018
... “event” and “experiment” that postwar Japanese researchers studying low-dose radiation effects grappled with previously. The genba concept is used to compare and theorize how anticipation of new scientific knowledge mediates the epistemic space that forms in response to a radiation event well beyond...
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positions (2018) 26 (4): 817–845.
Published: 01 November 2018
... invaders and colonizers, they are listening and responding to their victims’ accusations. What these witnesses regard as their responsibility for their acts turns out to be their response-ability to their victims. This essay will pursue the latter concept to examine the degree to which it enables dialogues...
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positions (2020) 28 (4): 905–933.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Vicente L. Rafael President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war in the Philippines has exacted an enormous toll in human lives and suffering. This essay looks into one of the earliest and most graphic responses to this war: the work of photojournalists and the plurality of responses to their images. How...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 429–453.
Published: 01 August 2022
... from 1919 to 1936, which was imagined and materialized by intellectuals, social reformers, and the Nationalist state in response to crises of capital accumulation, displacement of labor, and urbanization. New villages emerged as a worldwide sociopolitical response to exploitation and class antagonism...
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 499–524.
Published: 01 May 2011
... industry. Not to be dismissed as simple promotional lures to capture viewer's attention and simultaneously evade state censorship, this trend is read against the backdrop of the nation's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995. These films share the same response to trade globalization...
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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 (2012) 20 (1): 173–182.
Published: 01 February 2012
...Jesook Song As a response to positions ' twentieth-anniversary workshop that solicited suggestions on the future direction of the journal, this article raises questions on how to study Asia without falling into traps of reproducing capitalist discourse that reduces the significance of Asia to its...
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 497–526.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Ann Marie Leshkowich Over the past several decades, transnational adoption of Vietnamese children has developed from a response to war into a routine option for foreigners trying to build families. This article explores how the logics that have emerged within Vietnam to make sense...