After the Korean War

An Intimate History

AvHeonik Kwon

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Del i serien Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare

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Beskrivning

Following his prizewinning studies of the Vietnam War, renowned anthropologist Heonik Kwon presents this ground-breaking study of the Korean War's enduring legacies seen through the realm of intimate human experience. Kwon boldly reclaims kinship as a vital category in historical and political enquiry and probes the grey zone between the modern and the traditional (and between the civil and the social) in the lived reality of Korea's civil war and the Cold War more broadly. With captivating historical detail and innovative conceptual frames, Kwon's moving, creative analysis provides fresh insights into the Korean conflict, civil war and reconciliation, history and memory and critical political theory.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-04-16
Mått:158 x 235 x 15 mm
Vikt:470 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
Antal sidor:238
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108487924

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Heonik Kwon is Senior Research Fellow in Social Science and Professor of Anthropology at Trinity College, Cambridge. He is the author of The Other Cold War (Cambridge, 2010), Ghosts of War in Vietnam (Cambridge, 2008) and After the Massacre: Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai (2006).

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'This extraordinary book gives us - finally - the language to touch the heart of the Korean War's fundamental, enduring violence. With kinship in focus as the essential terrain of the political, Kwon completely transforms how we understand mass violence at the intersection between the intimate, the state, and the global. After the Korean War is a work of exquisite and stunning brilliance.' Monica Kim, New York University

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; 1. Massacres in Korea; 2. Bad gemeinschaft; 3. Peace in the feud; 4. Guilt by association; 5. Morality and ideology; 6. The quiet revolution; Conclusion.