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positions (2012) 20 (2): 497–526.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of the transnational movement of children reflect both broader neoliberal ideologies of family and selfhood and late socialist anxieties about class differentiation. Child welfare professionals, the media, and casual observers in Ho Chi Minh City explain rising adoption rates as due to the desperation, ignorance...
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positions (2017) 25 (4): 769–794.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., the transnational antitrafficking movement, and US rescue industry interests in Thailand. Global Humanitarianisms An established genealogy of critical humanitarianism studies explains the role of social action under the conditions of global capitalism...
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positions (1994) 2 (2): 430–445.
Published: 01 May 1994
... as in the recuperation of patriarchal representational practices within theorizations of contemporary transnational “proletarian” or “subaltern” movements (the so-called new social movements).3 Feminist thought remains an important way to decon...
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 15–40.
Published: 01 February 2023
..., once the bread and butter of ethnographic writing, has largely vanished from the discipline. Growing concerns with globalization, deterritorialization, and transnational flows have shifted anthropology's focus from the rural to the urban. Anthropologists have largely turned to cities to study movement...
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positions (1999) 7 (3): 653–666.
Published: 01 August 1999
... the heterogeneous nature of this concept.' Whereas transnationalism turns the phenomena into a set of practices that signify a movement,* transnational practices suggests heterogeneity and difference,3 and transnationalities can be understood...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 219–243.
Published: 01 May 2022
... lives. Contrary to mainstream media reports on the adverse effects of transnational families on children, social science studies generally find that children are resilient and accordingly adjust to their circumstances (Dreby 2010 ; Hoang, Yeoh, and Graham 2014 ). In Vietnam, children are said...
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positions (2020) 28 (3): 575–602.
Published: 01 August 2020
... International Council of Women transnational feminism Cold War References Armstrong Elizabeth . 2016 . “ Before Bandung: The Anti-Imperialist Women’s Movement in Asia and the Women’s International Democratic Federation .” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 41 , no. 2 : 305 – 31...
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 229–256.
Published: 01 May 2011
..., transnational economy of emo- tions and devotion; or being woman, foreign, and doing socially reproduc- tive work). In the Philippine case, this is a legacy of the Marcos dictatorship (1965–86), which sought to ease national unemployment and other social...
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positions (2003) 11 (3): 735–763.
Published: 01 August 2003
... This tension has political and social implications for the “community” of Asian American citizens and scholars. Critics such as Arif Dirlik and Sau-ling Wong have suggested that the emphasis on transnational connections for Asian Amer...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 353–375.
Published: 01 May 2022
... 2017a , 2017b ) makes CBS a particularly compelling case. More broadly, the article highlights the role played by children in emergent transnational topologies. Foregrounding children's movement evokes the idea of “embodied statecraft,” discussed recently by Mitchell and Kallio ( 2017 ) in relation...
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positions (1998) 6 (2): 323–344.
Published: 01 May 1998
...,” or “Minority Groups”; and “T’ai-wan Nan-tao Min-tsu,” or “Taiwan Austrone- sian.” Yuan-chu-min was popularized by aboriginal social movements that occurred after the mid-1980s. See Hsieh Shih-Chung, “From Shanbao to Yuanzhumin: Taiwan Aborigines...
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positions (1997) 5 (2): 439–465.
Published: 01 May 1997
... to unite various religious groups in a transnational frame, which began during the decline of colonialism and culminated when larger social movements reached their height in the 1970sWhile the transnational face of the church is linked...
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positions (2012) 20 (3): 943–946.
Published: 01 August 2012
... through the frame of transnational feminist cultural studies, and in particular as an untangling of the liberal way of war that pledges “aid,” freedom, rights, movement, and other social goods. Nguyen is also coeditor with Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu of Alien...
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 281–289.
Published: 01 May 2010
... exchanges, the Afro-­Asian Century, and inter-­Asian movements, and many exciting scholarly inquiries have indeed been made along these lines.1 The choice of the United States as the object of critique was made over other transnational linkages...
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 807–835.
Published: 01 November 2015
... for “sav- ing” her and to the Korean nation for brokering the rescue mission. At the macroeconomic register, the industry of transnational adoption as a substi- tute for social services exacerbates the conditions of possibility of Korea’s...
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positions (2001) 9 (1): 161–186.
Published: 01 February 2001
... the movement of globalization is the logic of capitalism.This failure resulted in our inability to confront and exam- ine the inevitable conflict between transnational capitalism and the national welfare and interests of the third world within the sphere...
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positions (2001) 9 (2): 401–422.
Published: 01 May 2001
... title refers to a fictitious landfill that dominates Staten Is- land. Junk rules many of the film’s compositions, and, thematically, the film revolves around the detritus of an urban consumer society in which transnational corporations bring raw...
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 257–280.
Published: 01 May 2011
... in some future.20 In this oscillation, the film in fact utilizes (but sets aside) its grounding in the very real history of social struggle in the countryside. Benitez ❘ Transnational Questing Desire 265 We...
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positions (2009) 17 (2): 347–374.
Published: 01 May 2009
... and middle-class social clubs.20 Ciji did not belong to any of these groups. In fact, it could be argued that it is precisely because Ciji did Huang | Cultural Politics of a Global Buddhist Movement 351 not take the usual route of NGOs...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 277–300.
Published: 01 May 2022
... in Lombok and how enmeshed they are in communal emotional economies of transnational migration, specifically the embodied, collectively shared and socialized emotion of malu , or shame (Beazley, Butt, and Ball 2018 ). In this article the analysis of communal emotional economies is continued by focusing...