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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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Spirits with Morality: Social Criticism and Notions of a Good Life in Laos through the Bangbot Imaginary
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 191–208.
Published: 01 February 2024
... in rapid deforestation. We suggest that the potential of this imaginary for socioecological criticism and alternative visions depends on social structure and historical context. While bangbot were instrumental in violent anti-colonial revolt, lending political legitimacy to rural ethnic elites, in today's...
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Intersecting Labor in the Social Factory: Trajectory of a Migrant Woman in South China
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 379–402.
Published: 01 May 2023
... their subjectivity? In this article, the labor trajectory of Zuo Mei, a young migrant woman, is traced over six and a half years. The author relates Zuo's experience to what Mario Tronti calls the “social factory,” where the extraction of surplus occurs not just on the factory floor but also through social relations...
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The Social Production and Political Potency of Home: Contentions between Housing Reconstruction and Place Making among the Chinese Qiang after the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake
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positions (2024) 32 (2): 371–398.
Published: 01 May 2024
... decision and ritual process in which villagers enacted, negotiated, and sustained the geomantic, spiritual, and social relationships that completed their lives. However, under unique and new financial and political pressures following the 2008 earthquake, Longxi villagers rushed into a reconstruction...
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The three forms of social network maintained by Chinese skilled trade worke...
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in Continuity and Disjuncture: The Translocal-Transnational Experiences of Chinese Skilled Trade Workers in Western Australia
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Published: 01 November 2024
Figure 2 The three forms of social network maintained by Chinese skilled trade workers.
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Breaking with the Family Form: Historical Categories, Social Reproduction, and Everyday Life in Late 1950s Rural China
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positions (2021) 29 (4): 869–894.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Alexander F. Day Abstract This article explores the way PRC historians use analytical categories by looking at the emergence of a divide between production and the social reproduction of labor (all the work that goes into producing and raising laborers) that transformed and structured rural...
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From the Social to the Political: 1920s Colonial Saigon as a “Space of Possibilities” In Vietnamese Consciousness
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positions (2013) 21 (3): 497–546.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Philippe Peycam A public political sphere, to exist, requires the convergence of phenomena primarily of socioeconomic and cultural nature. In early twentieth-century southern Vietnam, the emergence of new socially, economically, and culturally determined categories among the indigenous population...
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The Social in Media: Race, History, and the Visualizing Cultures Controversy at MIT
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positions (2015) 23 (1): 175–180.
Published: 01 February 2015
.... As we come into contact with images online, we expand our awareness but also simultaneously move into realms where we have only a limited grasp of the contexts in which things are made, and the goals to which they aspire. Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 social media race war...
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“Face”: An Adaptable Discourse of Social Surfaces
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positions (1995) 3 (1): 119–148.
Published: 01 February 1995
...Andrew Kipnis Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 ”Face“: An Adaptable Discourse of Social Surfaces
Andrew Kipnis
I come to the study of “the Chinese conception of face” with mixed feelings.
On the one hand, I hesitate to focus...
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Politics and the Body Social in Colonial Hong Kong
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positions (1996) 4 (2): 185–215.
Published: 01 May 1996
... 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Politics and the Body Social in Colonial Hong Kong
Fred Y. L. Chiu
Preamble
In 1966, a year before riots broke out in Hong Kong protesting British colo-
nial rule, an official government inquiry sought...
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Toward a History of the Social Sciences in Japan
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positions (1996) 4 (2): 217–251.
Published: 01 May 1996
...Andrew E. Barshay Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Toward a History of the Social Sciences in Japan
Andrew E. Barshay
The Triple Paradox of Japanese Social Science
Japanese social science is social science. Although a form of national excep...
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The World Conception of Japanese Social Science: The Kōza Faction, the Ōtsuka School, and the Uno School of Economics
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positions (1998) 6 (1): 67–112.
Published: 01 February 1998
...Sugiyama Mitsunobu Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 The World Conception of Japanese Social Science: The Koza Faction, the Otsuka
School, and the Uno School of Economics
Sugiyama Mitsunobu
The influence of Marxism on the social sciences in Japan...
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“Asian-Values“ Discourse and the Resurrection of the Social
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positions (1999) 7 (2): 573–592.
Published: 01 May 1999
...Chua Beng-Huat Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Commentary
”Asian-Values“ Discourse and the Resurrection of the Social
Chua Beng-Huat
The so-called Asian-values discourse emerged into global attention out of
the rise...
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Nationalist Social Sciences and the Fabrication of Subimperial Subjects in Taiwan
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positions (2000) 8 (1): 151–177.
Published: 01 February 2000
...Kang Chao; Marshall Johnson 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Nationalist Social Sciences and the Fabrication of Subimperial Subjects in Taiwan
Kang Chao and Marshall Johnson
Nationalist Imagination and Positivist Social Sciences
A distinctive feature of imperial...
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Journalism, Social Value, and a Philosophy of the Everyday in 1920s China
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positions (2008) 16 (3): 539–567.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Rebecca E. Karl This essay takes a 1920s scandalous case—the Ma-Wang Incident—as a study of the relationship established in Chinese journalism between events and everyday life. It argues that journalism, as a commodity form, and the emergence of everyday life as a problem of sociality were...
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Rural Women and Social Change in New China Cinema: From Li Shuangshuang to Ermo
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positions (2003) 11 (3): 647–674.
Published: 01 August 2003
...Xiaobing Tang 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Rural Women and Social Change in New China Cinema:
From Li Shuangshuang to Ermo
Xiaobing Tang
The title of this essay may sound slightly clichéd, since it would be extremely
hard to find a film in New...
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Place, Identity, and Social Movements: Shequ and Neighborhood Organizing in Taipei City
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positions (2005) 13 (2): 379–410.
Published: 01 May 2005
...Ya-Chung Chuang 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Place, Identity, and Social Movements:
Shequ and Neighborhood Organizing in Taipei City
Ya-Chung Chuang
Introduction: An Urban Legend
One summer afternoon in June 1995, a college student on the way home after...
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Citizenship in the Name of the Mother: Nationalism, Social Exclusion, and Gender in Contemporary Nepal
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positions (2017) 25 (4): 795–820.
Published: 01 November 2017
...-discriminatory citizenship laws are rooted in historical social and geopolitical tensions with India, especially nationalistic fears about Indian encroachment into Nepali territory and politics. This article argues that resurgent resistance to equitable citizenship laws does not simply reflect hegemonic Hindu...
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The Social-Invisibility Narrative in Filipino-American Feature Films
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 421–437.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Elizabeth H. Pisares If social invisibility is defined as the derivation of a social identity through nonvisible characteristics, Filipino-American social invisibility is the derivation of an ethnic identity given character by its chronic misrecognition and effaced representation in U.S. culture...
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Delivering Security in Modern Japan: Postal Life Insurance and Social Unrest
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positions (2018) 26 (4): 619–646.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Ryan Moran This article analyzes debates surrounding the creation of the post office–run kan’i seimei hoken (basic life insurance), or kanpo . Beginning in the 1890s and early 1900s, intellectuals concerned with the new discourse of the social problem, which referred to the problem of worker...
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