positions: asia critique 32.1

We are pleased to announce the publication of “the good life in late-socialist Asia: aspirations, politics, and possibilities,” a thematic issue of positions: asia critique (32:1), edited by Minh T. N. Nguyen, Phill Wilcox, and Jake Lin.

Topics include the quest for “the good life” in the political economy of late socialism across China, Laos, and Vietnam; future-making and the politics of aspiration; living well as an individual and collective pursuit; care as both an instrument of late socialist governance and a means to value creation by ordinary people; and the encounter between localized and globalized ideas of the good life.

The contributors are Kirsten W. Endres, Arve Hansen, Roberta Zavoretti, Sandra Kurfürst, Jiazhi Fengjiang, Charlotte Bruckermann, Elizabeth M. Elliott, Fan Zhang, Michael Kleinod-Freudenberg, Sypha Chanthavong, and Li Zhang.

The issue is available for purchase at https://read.dukeupress.edu/positions/issue/32/1

Posted by: Dale Booth positionsjournal@alc.rutgers.edu

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