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positions (2017) 25 (4): 745–767.
Published: 01 November 2017
... and microprocesses of social life in relation to urban inequality. Drawing on fifteen months of ethnographic research conducted between 2009 and 2011 and in-depth interviews with twenty-two South Korean young adults, the author analyzes how a host of young adults strive for their belonging as they confront their own...
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positions (2015) 23 (3): 515–543.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Xia Zhang In recent years, China's labor market deregulation and increasing unemployment and underemployment have hit Chinese youth particularly hard. How are Chinese urban youth responding to these new labor conditions? This article argues that they are not only creating new forms of work...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 429–453.
Published: 01 August 2022
... with the conservative recovery of an ideal rural community, in an attempt to overcome social inequality and the urban exploitation of the rural caused by capital accumulation. [email protected] Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 new villages the Nationalist state labor alienation urban village...
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 49–67.
Published: 01 February 2024
..., and the scaling up of domestic agriculture, as well as a range of problematic dietary changes. In an urban food scene that is tremendously rich in the number and diversity of its food spaces, the prevalence of eating out has increased dramatically. Related to affordability, convenience, time, consumer culture...
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positions (2017) 25 (3): 565–593.
Published: 01 August 2017
..., they all parody the existing class inequality in Japanese society through gratuitous, chauvinistic depictions of sex and violence in the urban underground, offering a view into the lives of hustlers and gangsters, streetwalkers and street lawyers...
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positions (1999) 7 (2): 343–375.
Published: 01 May 1999
... for obtaining Shenzhen legal residence, this essay maps the geotectonic inequality- the institutionalization of the rural-urban division of labor-on which the integration of the PRC into the world capitalist sys- tem has been constructed...
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positions (2009) 17 (3): 523–535.
Published: 01 August 2009
... (Suzhi 195. 15. Andrew Kipnis, “Dissecting Homo Neoliberalis: Suzhi Discourse and (Non-)Neoliberalism in the PRC” (n.d 16. The greatest degree of inequality in China is between rural and urban citizens. Far from...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 595–617.
Published: 01 August 2022
... . “ Land Development, Inequality, and Urban Villages in China .” International Journal of Urban and Regional Studies 33 , no. 4 : 885 – 89 . Wu Jieh-min . 2010 . “ Rural Migrant Workers and China's Differential Citizenship: A Comparative Institutional Analysis .” In One Country, Two...
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 129–149.
Published: 01 February 2024
... the emerging costs of the good life as a green life, a transformation that both deepens rural-urban inequalities and fosters diverging ecological aspirations through environmental projects. Although early market reforms in the late twentieth century conjured a Zhongguo meng 中国梦 (Chinese dream) built...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 377–407.
Published: 01 May 2022
... . 2017 . “ Precarious Seoul: Urban Inequality and Belonging of Young Adults in South Korea .” positions 25 , no. 4 : 745 – 67 . Jung Sook Kyung , and Norton Bonny . 2002 . “ Language Planning in Korea: The New Elementary English Program .” In Language Policies in Education...
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positions (2017) 25 (4): 633–644.
Published: 01 November 2017
... marginalization and alienation. Jung peeks behind Seoul’s facade to reveal the tenuous nature of belong- ing under conditions of increasing urban inequality in Asia. “Precarious Seoul” uses the cases of three young adults living in new forms of substan...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 523–527.
Published: 01 May 2023
... and communication studies at University of Technology Sydney. A fellow of Australian Academy of the Humanities since 2016, she is best known in the field of China studies for her ethnography of rural-to-urban migration in China. Her research on the cultural politics of inequality can be found in her books...
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positions (2017) 25 (4): 769–794.
Published: 01 November 2017
...-­driven development and persistent rural-­ urban inequality that the stage for transnational market-­based antitraffick- ing efforts that bind the state, private sector, nonprofit organizations, and migrant workers has been set. Transnational...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 257–279.
Published: 01 May 2023
... and Jakimów 2022 : 462; Friedman 2022 : 32)—but also how widely Lü’s and Wang's ideas diverge, even as they both target global capitalist hegemony as the primary cause of social inequalities in China and elsewhere. While insisting that “China's urbanization and industrialization can't be reversed...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 411–427.
Published: 01 August 2022
... villages are built, they are left to rely on their own capacity to build, secure, and constantly recreate support networks through kinship, as well as grassroots labor and social organizations. This is urban apartheid with Chinese characteristics. Amid these widening inequalities, urban villages remain...
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positions (2014) 22 (3): 635–659.
Published: 01 August 2014
..., rural-­urban inequality for the environment, health, and everyday experiences will be discussed. Everyday Hygiene Ayi was always concerned that her house would seem dirty (meji in Shang dialect) to me. The usual phrase she employed while I...
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 191–208.
Published: 01 February 2024
... context of frontier plunder vs. conservation, they are tamed to lend legitimacy to emerging urban milieus with a socioecological orientation. Thus the cultural, sociological, and ecological dynamics of Lao's late socialism are entangled in the spirit-figure of the bangbot. [email protected]...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 501–521.
Published: 01 August 2022
... at the urban fringe and to provide better housing for residents there. In a public speech, Li called urban slums “a debt accumulated through history and a scar left on the city” and claimed that China would move to tackle the issue of urban inequality exemplified by “high-rise buildings and slums standing side...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 549–570.
Published: 01 August 2022
... differentiation and inequality embedded in subject formation in state capitalism. The development of the real estate market and private property regime, built on rounds of ruthless accumulation and biased investment, has produced highly differentiated experiences and subjectivities in uneven urban spaces...
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 February 2024
.... People are drawn into competitive striving and the accumulation of private wealth to keep up with market demands, even as the socialist ethos of harmony, equality, and mutuality continue to be highlighted in official and popular discourse. Meanwhile, growing social inequality and ecological decline have...