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Author: Jesook Song
Publisher: Duke University Press
Imprint: Duke University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.345kg
ISBN: 9780822344810
ISBN 10: 0822344815
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 18 August 2009
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
South Koreans in the Debt Crisis is a very powerful analysis of the specific forms that neoliberalism has taken in a late-industrializing East Asian society, not just in the government's actions but in individuals' and activist-intellectuals' self-conceptions. There is very little that explores in such depth how neoliberal logics work in East Asian countries where well established liberal societies did not exist prior to neoliberal reform. Ann Anagnost, author of National Past-Times: Narrative, Representation, and Power in Modern China This is the first book in English on a very important topic: how South Korea became a neoliberal state during the period when the 'IMF crisis' affected the whole society. Not only the government but also the mass media and progressive intellectuals were involved in the construction of the categories of 'deserving' and 'undeserving' welfare recipients. In this book, Jesook Song shows how neoliberalism as a governing technology works in everyday life. --Seung-kyung Kim, author of Class Struggle or Family Struggle? The Lives of Women Factory Workers in South Korea
"""South Koreans in the Debt Crisis is a very powerful analysis of the specific forms that neoliberalism has taken in a late-industrializing East Asian society, not just in the government's actions but in individuals' and activist-intellectuals' self-conceptions. There is very little that explores in such depth how neoliberal logics work in East Asian countries where well established liberal societies did not exist prior to neoliberal reform."" Ann Anagnost, author of National Past-Times: Narrative, Representation, and Power in Modern China ""This is the first book in English on a very important topic: how South Korea became a neoliberal state during the period when the 'IMF crisis' affected the whole society. Not only the government but also the mass media and progressive intellectuals were involved in the construction of the categories of 'deserving' and 'undeserving' welfare recipients. In this book, Jesook Song shows how neoliberalism as a governing technology works in everyday life.""--Seung-kyung Kim, author of Class Struggle or Family Struggle? The Lives of Women Factory Workers in South Korea"
Author Information
Jesook Song is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.
