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1 online resource (viii, 164 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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New Asian Anthropology
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New Asian anthropology.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : North Korea : going beyond security and enemy rhetoric / Sonia Ryang -- North Korea and the birth pangs of a new Northeast Asian order / Gavan McCormack -- Socialism, sovereignty, and the North Korean exception / Charles K. Armstrong -- Biopolitics, or, the logic of sovereign love -- love's whereabouts in North Korea / Sonia Ryang -- The split screen : Sin Sang-ok in North Korea / Steve Chung -- The politics of unification and neoliberal democracy / Hyun Ok Park -- Refugees, abductees, "returnees" : human rights in Japan-North Korea relations / Tessa Morris-Suzuki. |
| Summary |
We are told, time and again, that North Koreans are loyal to their leader, that they would do anything, even die for him, and that they are fiercely proud and nationalistic. But to an equal extent, we are told that they are oppressed, suffering, and readyto rise against the evil dictator. What do we know beyond or between these opposing assumptions? We are not well equipped with the conceptual tools that could lead us beyond the current securitization of our discourses on North Korea, while undercurrentsof regarding North Koreans as less human continue in these discourses. This volume attemp. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Korea (North) -- Relations -- Japan.
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Korea (North) |
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Relations. |
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Japan. |
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Japan -- Relations -- Korea (North)
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Korea (North) -- Relations -- United States.
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United States. |
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United States -- Relations -- Korea (North)
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Ryang, Sonia.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: North Korea. Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, ©2009 9780739132050 0739132059 (DLC) 2008031242 (OCoLC)235945911 |
| ISBN |
9780739132074 (electronic book) |
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0739132075 (electronic book) |
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9780739132050 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0739132059 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780739132067 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0739132067 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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