Journal•ISSN: 1527-8271
Positions-east Asia Cultures Critique
About: Positions-east Asia Cultures Critique is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Politics & China. Over the lifetime, 673 publications have been published receiving 8419 citations.
Topics: Politics, China, Colonialism, Ideology, Empire
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TL;DR: In 2002, with much pomp, the Bush administration's new Department of Homeland Security introduced its color-coded terror alert system: green, "low"; blue, "guarded"; yellow, "elevated"; orange, "high"; red, "severe" as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: In March 2002, with much pomp, the Bush administration’s new Department of Homeland Security introduced its color-coded terror alert system: green, “low”; blue, “guarded”; yellow, “elevated”; orange, “high”; red, “severe.” The nation has danced ever since between yellow and orange. Life has restlessly settled, to all appearances permanently, on the redward end of the spectrum, the blue-greens of tranquility a thing of the past. “Safe” doesn’t even merit a hue. Safe, it would seem, has fallen off the spectrum of perception. Insecurity, the spectrum says, is the new normal.1
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TL;DR: In contemporary China, concerns about the suzhi, or "quality," of individuals, groups, and populations pervade the social imagination and inform a wide spectrum of discourses and debates as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: In contemporary China, concerns about the suzhi , or "quality," of individuals, groups, and populations pervade the social imagination and inform a wide spectrum of discourses and debates. Suzhi is of critical importance to contemporary China's booming, globally oriented market economy, to new, "postsocialist" forms of state governance and social control, and to contemporary processes of citizenship. This essay first provides some background discussion of the historical development and contemporary significance of suzhi discourse in China and briefly reviews existing literature relating to it. It then introduces each of the subsequent essays in this special issue on suzhi and explains the connections between them.
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TL;DR: In Funny Boy, Sri Lankan-Canadian writer Shyam Selvadurai's 1994 novel in six stories, the upper-middle class Sri Lankaan Tamil narrator traces the seven years of his childhood and adolescence that preceded the Tamil-Sinhalese riots in 1983, and his family's subsequent migration to Canada as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: In Funny Boy, Sri Lankan-Canadian writer Shyam Selvadurai’s 1994 novel in six stories, the upper-middle class Sri Lankan Tamil narrator traces the seven years of his childhood and adolescence that preceded the Tamil-Sinhalese riots in 1983, and his family’s subsequent migration to Canada. Given the illegibility and unrepresentability of a non-heteronormative (female) subject within patriarchal and heterosexual configurations of both nation and diaspora, the project of locating a 'queer South Asian diasporic subject' - and a queer female subject in particular - may begin to challenge the dominance of such configurations. The slide from female homosociality into female homoeroticism in this scene, as well as in another where Radha rubs oil into Sita's hair, serves to locate female same-sex desire and pleasure firmly within the confines of the home and 'the domestic', rather than as that which safely occurs 'elsewhere'.
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