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positions (2011) 19 (1): 109–131.
Published: 01 February 2011
... in the form of a “non-aligned” subject in Cold War south Korea. Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Return to the Colonial Present:
Ch’oe In-hun’s Cold War Pan-Asianism
Theodore Hughes
From The Square (1960) to The Tempest (1973), south Korean writer Ch’oe...
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positions (2012) 20 (1): 389–415.
Published: 01 February 2012
...Christophe Robert Trần Anh Hùng is best known for three films: The Scent of the Green Papaya (1993), Cyclo (1995), and Vertical Ray of the Sun (2000), known as his Vietnam Trilogy. In this article I propose the notion of the return of a repressed, painful, and violent wartime past, which takes form...
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positions (2013) 21 (1): 161–187.
Published: 01 February 2013
...Chih-ming Wang Intrigued by the question of diasporic return, this article is concerned with the cultural politics of what I call “homecoming stories” of the Vietnamese diaspora. In order not to be confused with the imaginary returns that have been practiced in many Vietnamese-US writings...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 301–321.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Misaki Iwai Abstract In recent years, there has been a noticeable presence of children known as “unrecognized” in the Vietnamese media. These children are the offspring of Vietnamese women married to Korean or Taiwanese men who have returned to Vietnam following divorce or separation. This article...
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in Barriers Faced by Returning Migrant Children in Vietnam: The Case of the Mekong Delta Region
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 1 Returning migrant children with temporary registration in the Vị Thắng commune. Unit: person. Source Created by the author with data from UBND xã Vị Thắng 2017 .
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 629–656.
Published: 01 May 2012
... a decade of rapid economic growth, inflation in Vietnam returned. In 2007 and 2008, the consumer price index recorded double-digit increases, raising concerns about the government's commitment to proper monetary and fiscal policies. This essay considers the paradoxical return of inflation to Vietnam...
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positions (2016) 24 (2): 435–479.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of ethnic minorities and villains, waiting for opportunities to return, seek revenge, and talk back. The disappearance of animals in the mid-1960s marked the start of the Cultural Revolution but also paved the way for its own ideological demise. When the wrathful animals returned to the screen in the late...
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 257–280.
Published: 01 May 2011
... return to the native land. Both films posit a transnational subject that bemoans the economic plight of the nation-state while demonstrating neoliberal entrepreneurship in self-regulation. The desiring subjects of the films embark upon transnational quests for self-actualization, which in turn foreground...
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positions (2018) 26 (3): 483–515.
Published: 01 August 2018
... determinist readings that stem from structuralism, and against the return to autonomy through recourse to the historical context of modernity. The place of cinema must be one in which these can be thought together as an active enmeshing of the spectator and the world through the action of the lens. For Nakai...
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positions (2018) 26 (3): 423–449.
Published: 01 August 2018
... types of workers. Recovery, according to these long-time users, is not conceived of as an attempt to return to an earlier way of drug-free living; rather, to recover is to adapt to the economic and social demands of a different historical moment. The conclusion considers how understanding this cohort...
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positions (2018) 26 (4): 619–646.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., in purchasing a life insurance policy, freely chose to return to the national community. Life insurance thus highlights the importance of consumer desire and free choice in modern regimes of governmentality. Postal life insurance also helps draw connections between issues of governmentality and labor power...
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positions (2019) 27 (4): 739–771.
Published: 01 November 2019
...David Tobin The official China Dream of the Great revival tells a story of China reversing “humiliation” by Western powers and returning to its premodern, rightful place at the center of world affairs. However, since ethnically targeted violence in Ürümqi in 2009, leading thinkers and policy makers...
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positions (2020) 28 (3): 603–630.
Published: 01 August 2020
... relations and internationally circulating PRC-produced cultural material that articulated feminist ideals as part of Afro-Asian-Latin American solidarity. This article returns to well-known texts of Maoist China to rethink state-produced Chinese feminism as a Cold War framework and gendered globality...
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positions (2020) 28 (4): 905–933.
Published: 01 November 2020
... and their survivors? How has the drug war, by instilling a biopolitics of fear, transformed the latter’s ways of seeing and being? What becomes of justice amid images of injustice? For example, how do returning spirits of the dead that appear in dreams of their families stimulate phantasms of revenge? How is revenge...
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positions (2022) 30 (1): 9–34.
Published: 01 February 2022
... of a nominally “socialist” project, but rather in a return to a properly capitalist set of concerns and governmental techniques, the first iteration of which can be traced to the 1920s and 1930s. With regard to the broad set of economic reforms launched in the period 1979–81, it is argued that the one-child...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 277–300.
Published: 01 May 2022
... migrating parents. The article explores the unpredictability of the temporality of migration and how parental absence can be indefinite or permanent, especially for parents who follow undocumented channels of migration. The article explores children’s lived experiences of waiting for their parents to return...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 245–275.
Published: 01 May 2022
... transforms stateless children into the very “illegal” migrants that the government seeks to deter: for some, expulsion to their ancestral country and eventual illicit return to Malaysia marked the first times they had crossed an international border. The article concludes by discussing the implications...
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 41–66.
Published: 01 February 2023
.... This article argues that the horror revealed by such stories is one that challenges Singaporean claims to ethnic and economic supremacy in the region, as it points to a return of a perceived threat from an allochronous rural world. Each presents a particular challenge to a sealed, prosperous, “first world...
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 107–128.
Published: 01 February 2024
... and sustainable material returns, yet the creative imaginations and public actions of ordinary people open up possibilities for valorizing life in social arenas, despite and within the prevailing economic valorization of life. [email protected] Copyright 2024 by Duke University Press 2024...
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positions (2009) 17 (3): 713–740.
Published: 01 August 2009
... of South Korean corporate enterprise, this unraveling has broader consequences for the national imaginary. The article thus draws a parallel between the film's residual selves and Derridean ghosts as discussed in the Specters of Marx (1994), which are less the expressions of a repressed past returning...
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