... and national advancement in an economically and racially stratified world order. In this sense, overseas language travels operate as spaces that both reinscribe as well as destabilize existing social hierarchies along race, class, and nation. youth precarious labor English-language travel working holiday...

..., working-class youth have pursued education abroad primarily via the working holiday program, which allows young people from age eighteen to thirty to live in another country for up to two years in exchange for their low-wage labor (Chun and Han 2015 ). The push for English language learning, combined...

.... Young people are no longer going abroad just to gain competitive advantage through education but also to earn an income, develop global skill sets (i.e., language), gain cosmopolitan exposure, and seek new freedoms within a variety of different migratory configurations such as working holiday makers...

...) This particular festival is celebrated in many parts of north India as a public holiday for the working class, the day being named after the engineer-god Vishvakarma. How do we read this evidence in terms of the difference between real and abstract...

... an unusual cause. Neighborhood activists, preservationists, and din- ers rallied, petitioned, and pleaded for a reversal of plans to demolish the Holiday Bowl bowling alley, a low-slung edifice perched astride a decaying commercial strip in the heart...

... with customers vary from one employer to another. Hours of work range from short shifts of four hours to twelve-­hour days. Some reps are hired temporarily, for a special promotion or to work during a holiday season when sales increase. These reps...

... Indeed, in photo displays of this miniature landscape, we see the image being viewed by giants (fig. I) or, caught in the process of production, the artisan at work on the “finishing touches” that complete an object already phenomenal in its...

... of Chineseness relies a great deal upon the work of seventeenth-­century Jesuits who took the ideology of Chinese elites and turned it into “the Western discourse on ‘Confucianism’ as emblematic of Chinese civilization,” which then “twentieth-­century...

... been paid on a daily basis (170 yuan per day) since then. To maintain her income level, Mei works as many days as possible, taking only one or two days off per month. She also filled in for others’ shifts during the 2019 Lunar New Year holiday while they left Shanghai for family reunions. Her response...

... peasant women earned in the laborious and highly skilled work of applying wax for batik dying, my first impulse was, of course, to check the price tag. The bathrobe was going for a cool $150. By my calculation, the Guizhou household...

...- ing its sociality without a second thought. Ideals, work, ambition, not to mention money—these centers and motivators of the ordinary condition of positions 12:2 © 2004 by Duke University Press positions 12:2 Fall 2004...

... references to international dimensions.' Mostly written from the femi- nist viewpoint, scholarly work on Barbie continues to grow in the direction of US.-based race and queer studies. However, very little in this area of U.S. feminist...

... community and often lasted an entire afternoon. However, they were not mere expres- sions of dissent; they were also about memory and collective representation. Typically, during these special “holidays” the students would reenact key...

... to as their traditional costumes on certain festivals and holidays. A photograph [not reproduced here because of its quality—Editor] shows a group of elderly men of the Atayal tribe in these traditional costumes at one such festival. The men wear startlingly clean...

.... And, along with the modern girl, the decade saw growing awareness of yet another new phenomenon, whose presence was likewise seen as reflecting modern trends: nü gong (the working woman). Modernity in 1920s China was not just the cosmopolitanism of the urban areas and the start of a global consumer...

... textbooks and curricula for all levels of education and includes mass-­media positions 23:1  February 2015 134 activities in museums, film, television, popular magazines, newspapers, and on official holidays. Deng...

.... An image does things that text cannot, but I think it does them best in conjunction with, and close by, words, so that there is the possibility for mutual interruption and dialogue. In print form, images work in specific ways, so part of my thinking concerns the digital future. After considering...

... a Communist holiday in 1922 and celebrated throughout the Soviet bloc and among communists worldwide until the 1960s when it was also picked up by feminists in the West. Socialist and communist women have been key players in the develop- Kim Introduction 503 ment of global feminisms and international women...

... worked but for the simple fact that a counterexample—the third term, so to speak—exists right across the street from McDonald’s and pokes holes in Eagleton’s neat binarism. I am referring to Red Sorghum, a traditional-style soup-noodle restaurant...

... 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...