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positions (2022) 30 (3): 455–477.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Jane Hayward; Małgorzata Jakimów Abstract Inside Beijing are hundreds of urban villages. Originally farming villages, now engulfed by urban expansion, they persist due to China's segregated urban-rural property system. Inhabitants are often still classed as peasants, despite being inside the city...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 479–499.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Nellie Chu Abstract This article elaborates on the unmaking of the peasant classes among the tu er dai 土二代 (peasant landlords), with a particular focus on their claims to contested wealth through rent-seeking and other accumulative practices in Guangzhou's urban villages. E. P. Thompson's classic...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 595–617.
Published: 01 August 2022
..., chuangdang 闯荡 (venturing) as a life project that either opposes or extends dagong has been neglected in scholarly studies. Venturing refers to a spatiotemporal condition defined by the uniqueness of urban villages where rural migrants participate in the informal economy on the urban fringes and attach...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 571–594.
Published: 01 August 2022
... new economic, social, and aesthetic forms; (2) that neglect in the PRC is marked by a historically informed temporality that presumes the state's continued interference; (3) that an expectation of neglect reifies the government as that which neglects. For years, Zhengzhou's urban villages were...
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positions 11306808.
Published: 07 August 2024
... in mass media. Migrant mothers in the urban villages of China have learned and internalized this ideology of intensive mothering along with their rural-to-urban migration through reading and interactions with medical and educational experts. Based on eight months of ethnographic research in two urban...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 619–640.
Published: 01 August 2022
... private rental housing market have further led to estranged living among migrant tenants and landlords, who experience different forms of displacement in urban villages. Gongyu is the outcome of low-end accumulation, which is intended primarily for constructing low-quality, low-cost rental projects...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 523–547.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Tong Lam Abstract In spite of their informal and substandard nature, Chinese urban villages are actually part of the infrastructure that institutionalizes and normalizes China's uneven development by providing cheap dormitory-style accommodations to the country's vast army of unskilled rural...
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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 (2023) 31 (2): 357–378.
Published: 01 May 2023
... theater scene introduced him to the labor NGO and community cultural center Migrant Workers Home in the urban village Picun in Beijing. Sakurai's collaborators suggested that the suburban village-in-the-city, populated by rural migrant workers, would be a performance venue that fit the Japanese director's...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 501–521.
Published: 01 August 2022
... encouraged local governments to become more fiscally independent and to adopt market-friendly governing techniques. In particular, the 1986 Land Management Law stipulated that urban land falls under the jurisdiction of the local municipal government, while village collectives manage rural land. The law also...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 429–453.
Published: 01 August 2022
... from 1919 to 1936, which was imagined and materialized by intellectuals, social reformers, and the Nationalist state in response to crises of capital accumulation, displacement of labor, and urbanization. New villages emerged as a worldwide sociopolitical response to exploitation and class antagonism...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 411–427.
Published: 01 August 2022
... Jonathan . 2010 . “ ‘They Come In Peasants and Leave Citizens’: Urban Villages and the Making of Shenzhen, China .” Cultural Anthropology 25 , no. 3 : 421 – 58 . Bear Laura , Ho Karen , Tsing Anna Lowenhaupt , and Yanagisako Sylvia . 2015 . “Gens: A Feminist...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 431–450.
Published: 01 May 2023
[email protected] Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 rural migrants storytelling agency future-making urban villages In the early 1990s, Zhejiangcun 浙江村, an urban village hosting thousands of rural migrants in southern Beijing, became a research site for two social sciences students...
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positions (2014) 22 (3): 661–689.
Published: 01 August 2014
... focus is on villagers’ views of infrastruc-
tural development and relocation, and the relative value they place on indus-
try, tourism, development, and farmland.
Urbanization, Development, and Land Disputes
In her recent book entitled...
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positions (2014) 22 (3): 635–659.
Published: 01 August 2014
... that is repressed in only some urban settings. The “dirtiness” of the countryside is directly (and literally) constituted by the dirt of modernization and urbanization that uncannily resists any attempts to disconnect from it. To put it directly, if villagers are “dirty,” so are urbanites. Copyright 2014 by Duke...
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positions (2008) 16 (3): 491–505.
Published: 01 August 2008
... in grassroots research work, tells four cautionary stories in order to expound on the question of the institutional cost induced by the “rural-urban dichotomy” and the fundamental systemic contradictions in China, as well as to discuss the rural reconstruction efforts that he has embarked on as an endeavor...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 257–279.
Published: 01 May 2023
... ), the Home was founded in 2002 in Picun, an “urban village” ( chengzhongcun 城中村) on the eastern outskirts of Beijing, some eighteen kilometers south of Capital Airport. Five other contributions in this issue also discuss Picun. With a local population of a little over one thousand and a migrant...
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positions (2017) 25 (2): 351–387.
Published: 01 May 2017
... growth, and the cosmopolitan Marxism of urban life, Tanigawa (along with the other members of his commune) practiced a rigorous subtraction from the dominant ideological and aesthetic discourse of postwar Japanese life. Remapping their politics by imbricating activism with the line of writing, they moved...
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 815–838.
Published: 01 November 2022
... responsibility, falls apart, ending in the reporting of neighbors and refusals to help people in need. I focus on three poles: the history of Korean Chinese and how they pursue “neoliberal-looking” ideas; the ways in which ethnic ethos loses its value for the villagers in the context of urbanization...
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in The Dark Side of the Miracle: Spectacular and Precarious Accumulation in an Urban Village under Siege (A Photo Essay)
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 August 2022
Figure 2 Tong Lam, untitled (2015), from the series Where There Is No Room for Fiction . Light box. Prior to its urbanization in the 1980s, Xian Village was made up of picturesque farmlands and tranquil fishing ponds. After its partial demolition, the village began to look more like a scene
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