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positions (2019) 27 (3): 531–555.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Jessamyn R. Abel Japan’s first bullet train played a central role in the reshaping of both the urban geographies and metropolitan identities of Tokyo, Osaka, and the region as a whole. This article considers the 1964 opening of the “New Tōkaidō Line” in terms of the social construction of space...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 357–378.
Published: 01 May 2023
... by reenchanting the urban space. The tent theater and the Migrant Workers Home in Picun invite us to reconsider Dai's concept of “shared space.” They can be described as spaces of alterity that claim the right to organize parts of urban space differently. The tent literally shares its space with the city...
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positions (2012) 20 (4): 983–1007.
Published: 01 November 2012
... existed in the advanced West — that rational design will make rational societies without superfluousness. The commercial downtown and successful public housing jointly become the embodiment of a uniform urban space of physical perfectibility. An important part of the emergence of Singapore contemporary...
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positions (2017) 25 (1): 125–144.
Published: 01 February 2017
... new spectatorial relations could be maneuvered. This article takes up for discussion two Malayalam films from the mid-1950s— Newspaper Boy (dir. P. Ramadas, 1955) and Rarichan enna powran ( Citizen Rarichan , dir. P. Bhaskaran, 1956)—as cinematic experiments in conceiving the urban space from two...
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positions (2017) 25 (1): 51–99.
Published: 01 February 2017
... on the one hand, and from the anticipations of romantic love in urban spaces, on the other; and, that the experience of popular cinema becomes inextricable from both. In other words, as Hindustani film songs incorporated the premodern, pastoral literary trope of prem nagar , this trope—the city of love...
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positions (2017) 25 (4): 693–716.
Published: 01 November 2017
... historical reading of Chinatowns that illuminates global interconnections as manifested in urban space while at the same time providing insight into specific social, historical, and geopolitical contexts integral to the travel of Chinatown. Thus, it argues that Chinatowns should be read not in isolation...
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positions (2010) 18 (3): 599–631.
Published: 01 August 2010
... monuments and surrounding urban spaces serve not only to “document” these buildings as signifiers of civilizational difference but also to transform them into a form of currency (both real and symbolic) in the unequal economy of colonial exchange. At the same time that these buildings begin to circulate...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 549–570.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Minhua Ling Abstract China's escalated infrastructural building and real estate development have gradually erased urban villages and reduced affordable living space for rural-to-urban migrants. This article showcases the emerging practice of container housing among low-income migrants, based...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 595–617.
Published: 01 August 2022
... fringes, but also dampens political actions that claim space through resistance. [email protected] Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 rural migrants accelerated temporality mobility urban villages venturing China On January 14, 2014, forty-two-year-old Lao Qi...
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 437–470.
Published: 01 May 2012
... after the war. Since 2004, sections of Quang Trung have been demolished and replaced with a trade center and high rise condominiums. Based on ethnographic and historical research in Vietnam and Germany, the essay traces new strategies of urban governance that endeavor to reorder and redesign city space...
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positions (2017) 25 (1): 101–124.
Published: 01 February 2017
..., to evoke the social realities and the
material cityscape of Bombay as well as utopian hopes for the future, and to
transmute these into an iconic urban space oscillating between exuberance
and disenchantment, between the dream of a just...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 429–453.
Published: 01 August 2022
... to construct collective everyday environments and self-governing communities, organizing and educating workers to become modern citizens in an attempt to reverse the “shameful deterioration” of urban spaces and to build a harmonious new society. In the aftermath of World War I, various visionaries tried...
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positions (2015) 23 (2): 231–257.
Published: 01 May 2015
.... Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Danchi space Gotô Meisei chronotype high-speed growth urbanization seisansei dailiness nichijôsei Concrete Abstractions:
Gotô Meisei’s Hapless Danchi Dwellers and Japan’s Economic Miracle
Peter Tillack
Perhaps the most...
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positions (2012) 20 (1): 389–415.
Published: 01 February 2012
... young brother, who struggles for survival in a threatening urban underworld. I query whether these familiar narrative tropes of abjection provide new spaces for understanding the shift away from a war-torn society, or whether they replicate a persistent, romantic self-Orientalizing thread in modern...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 501–521.
Published: 01 August 2022
... fieldwork, this article shows that, contrary to popular imaginings, chaiqian in Nanjing do not exclude peasants from urban development but seek to exploit the uneven urban and rural property regimes and bring rural spaces, including people, real estate, and crops, into the urban system. The government...
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positions (2019) 27 (2): 333–360.
Published: 01 May 2019
... socialist to globally commodified femininity, this essay unravels it as a complex cultural field of gender recoding, negotiation, and experimentation. Critiquing the “city” as an expanding network of consumer desires, Li’s urban cinema illustrates the dystopic imaginary of post-socialist home spaces...
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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 (2010) 18 (1): 253–277.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Jack Linchuan Qiu Does the Internet, a key technological infrastructure in contemporary urban China, facilitate the emergence of private entrepreneurs and autonomous citizens? Who deserves the credit? Chinese national leaders answered “yes” to the first question and pointed to themselves...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 455–477.
Published: 01 August 2022
... . “ Building City Walls: Reordering the Population through Beijing's Upside-Down Villages .” Modern China . https://doi.org/10.1177/00977004221090927 . He Shenjing , and Lin George C. S. 2015 . “ Producing and Consuming China's New Urban Space: State, Market, and Society .” Urban Studies...
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positions (2020) 28 (4): 869–904.
Published: 01 November 2020
... . Nixon Rob . 2005 . “Environmentalism and Postcolonialism ”. In Ecocriticism: The Essential Reader , edited by Hiltner Ken , 196 – 211 . New York : Routledge . Reisz Emma . 2003 . “ City as Garden: Shared Space in the Urban Botanic Gardens of Sin-gapore and Malaysia, 1786–2000...
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