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positions (2001) 9 (3): 611–620.
Published: 01 August 2001
...Kim Puja 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Commentary
Global Civil Society Remakes History:
“The Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal 2000”
Kim Puja
In the last month of the final year of the twentieth century “The Women’s
International War...
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positions (2006) 14 (1): 131–164.
Published: 01 February 2006
...Emma Jinhua Teng Duke University Press 2006 Eurasian Hybridity in Chinese Utopian Visions:
From “One World” to “A Society Based on Beauty” and Beyond
Emma Jinhua Teng
“Can Mixed-Blood Hybrids Really Improve the Chinese Race?” This pro-
vocative...
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positions (1998) 6 (2): 439–473.
Published: 01 May 1998
...Donald M. Nonini Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 “Chinese Society,” Coffee-Shop Talk, Possessing Gods: The Politics of Public Space
among Diasporic Chinese in Malaysia
Donald M. Nonini
Public Spaces, Bodies, Powers
Recent discussions...
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positions (2013) 21 (1): 189–221.
Published: 01 February 2013
...Kenneth Paul Tan Forum theater is an interactive practice whose “third-world” revolutionary origins have been transposed into techniques for dealing with “oppressions” within bourgeois societies. By constructing an analytical framework that articulates a Marcusean “one-dimensional society” approach...
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positions (2013) 21 (2): 269–308.
Published: 01 May 2013
... collectives impact their careers and professional agendas? At the center of the study is the Kokuga Society (Kokuga Sōsaku Kyōkai), a Nihonga collective active from 1918 to 1928, and its associated exhibition, the Kokuten, which it promoted as a progressive alternative to the official exhibition salon...
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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 (2014) 22 (3): 603–633.
Published: 01 August 2014
...” on the part of barefoot lawyers not only serves to fill gaps in the legal services system in the countryside, it also reestablishes the very concept of “legal services” in village society. That is, barefoot lawyers offer legal services based more on long-term human relationships than on money. Therefore...
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positions (2012) 20 (1): 111–158.
Published: 01 February 2012
... about the industrially produced commodity and its explosive value to “society” as such. The evidence of advanced Chinese advertising markets in the interwar years 1919–37 allows contemporary historians to see “society” or “the social” as it was first theorized, the social as the sine qua non...
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positions (2009) 17 (2): 347–374.
Published: 01 May 2009
... will show, attests to the plural genealogies of NGO-ness. In addition, the article argues that the genealogy of Ciji illustrates the nuanced relationship between society and the Taiwan “state,” and that Ciji embodies the shifting cultural “state” of civil society in Taiwan. The concept of the “regime...
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positions (2013) 21 (2): 451–473.
Published: 01 May 2013
... the Taisho period (1912 – 27) when the Fusain Society (Fyûzankai) and the Nika Society (Nikakai) came into being as alternatives to the Bunten. The essay elucidates one of the fundamental paradoxes of Taisho-period art — the simultaneous proliferation of art organizations and artistic individualism...
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 107–128.
Published: 01 February 2024
... the better-off philanthropists and volunteers, whose philanthropic activities tend to enhance their status and dominance, the ordinary people presented in this article experience major tensions between providing for their family and caring for others in society, between ensuring the material conditions...
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positions (2011) 19 (1): 133–157.
Published: 01 February 2011
...Timothy Yun Hui Tsu This paper examines postwar Japanese experiences of kakyō , or “overseas Chinese,” focusing on three “sites”: the black market, Chinatown, and Kabukichō. It argues that Japanese society assigns to the Chinese immigrant community stereotypical meanings that reflect first...
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 735–762.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of disability movements that aimed to challenge the inaccessibility and cruelty of a society made by and for nondisabled people. Yokota was involved with two key groups of this kind—the literary coterie Shinonome and the activist group Aoi Shiba no Kai—and over several decades published multiple books about...
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positions (2021) 29 (4): 869–894.
Published: 01 November 2021
... veneer of Maoist high politics and its categories. This article therefore argues that everyday life, far from a sphere resisting the impositions and dictates of the state, is fully implicated in the political-economic structuring of society. This is a call to not simply replace an earlier social science...
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positions (2014) 22 (1): 41–69.
Published: 01 February 2014
... by focusing on the General Freeter Union/PAFF in Tokyo and its emergence from the “Dame-ren circles” of Tokyo. I argue that the precarity movement has functioned to a large extent as a vehicle not only for external change in society but also for empowerment of its participants with particular attention being...
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 67–89.
Published: 01 February 2023
..., they also offer a universal reflection regarding the structural ills in South Korean society. Moreover, this reflection is not limited to South Korean society. It can be repositioned as the speculation that all venues of transnational and global capitalist phenomena in which otherness is excluded...
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positions (2018) 26 (1): 59–76.
Published: 01 February 2018
... of criticism. By doing so, he delivers at the same time an accurate physiognomy of Swiss society, whose self-image was more informed by its peasantry than by its working class. It is a test for the procedure that Benjamin, a year later, by using the term new popularity , would describe as emancipatory process...
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positions (2018) 26 (2): 243–264.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., a loosely affiliated group of antipollution thinkers and activists have been exploring the relationship of human society to its environment in extremely creative and fruitful ways. Beginning with the methylmercury poisoning called “Minamata disease” of the 1950–70s, this group began what they called...
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positions (2018) 26 (2): 213–241.
Published: 01 May 2018
.... The independent works of Mousseau and Ash, documenting a shared historical moment within a world humbled by renewed awareness of ionizing radiation, juxtapose the creation of expert and lay knowledge systems. Their work at the intersections of science, technology, and society show as many commonalities as they do...
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positions (2010) 18 (3): 671–693.
Published: 01 August 2010
... of personal histories, to locate and reinvent a “past” that was still very much the present. While recent studies of visual culture in postsocialist or post-Holocaust societies focus on “postmemory,” this article examines the mechanisms of materializing and restructuring personal memory that were in place...
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