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Hope without a Future: Conflicts between Time and Place in Japan after 3/11 没有未来的希望:3·11之后日本的时间与地点的冲突

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Positions-Asia Critique Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1215/10679847-10122190

M. Berman

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Cover Image Commentary—Shooting a Shot: The Decisive Moment of Abe Shinzo's and Asanuma Inejirō's Assassinations on Camera 封面图片评论——拍摄一个镜头:安倍和浅沼内次郎暗杀镜头的决定性时刻

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Positions-Asia Critique Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1215/10679847-10214150

Ayelet Zohar

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Paris in Korean Cinema: Fraudulence and the Female Form in Hong Sang-soo's Night and Day and Kim Ki-duk's Wild Animals 韩国电影中的巴黎:洪尚秀的《夜与日》和金基德的《野生动物》中的欺诈和女性形式

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Positions-Asia Critique Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1215/10679847-10122203

Young-Hwa Choe

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Foreign Bodies: Horror and Intimacy in Singapore's Migrant Labor Regimes 外国人:新加坡移民劳工制度中的恐惧与亲密

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Positions-Asia Critique Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1215/10679847-10122112

A. A. Johnson

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Geometries of Fractals and Power: Transnational Marriages, Translocal Marriages, and Asia's Global Ruralities 分形几何与权力:跨国婚姻、跨地区婚姻和亚洲的全球乡村

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Positions-Asia Critique Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1215/10679847-10122099

Linh Nguyen

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Deleuze and East Asia: Toward a Comparative Methodology of the Gap 德勒兹与东亚:走向差距的比较方法论

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Positions-Asia Critique Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1215/10679847-10122151

J. Hetrick

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The Promise of (Un)happiness: 34 Literature and Yi Si-u's Surrealist Poetics in Colonial Korea 幸福的承诺:34文学与李嗣玉的超现实主义诗学

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Positions-Asia Critique Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1215/10679847-9967292

K. Smith

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The Advertising Museum in Seoul: Dream-Images and the Freedom to Advertise 首尔广告博物馆:梦想-影像与广告自由

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Positions-Asia Critique Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1215/10679847-9967344

Olga Fedorenko

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Semantics of Tea Drinking: Online Writing and the Shaping of Counter-public Spheres in Xi Jinping's China

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Positions-Asia Critique Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1215/10679847-9967396

Lorenzo Andolfatto

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Familiar Strangers: North Koreans as "Dangerous Refugees" and the Crisis of Korean Chinese Community in Zhang Lu's Dooman River (2010) 熟悉的陌生人:作为“危险难民”的朝鲜人与张璐《都满河》中朝鲜族华人社区的危机(2010)

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Positions-Asia Critique Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1215/10679847-9967370

E. Cho

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