North Korea’s Mundane Revolution

Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung, 1953–1965

Andre Schmid (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

352 Seiten

2024
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39284-7 (ISBN)

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When the crucial years after the Korean War are remembered today, histories about North Korea largely recount a grand epic of revolution centering on the ascent of Kim Il Sung to absolute power. Often overshadowed in this storyline, however, are the myriad ways the Korean population participated in party-state projects to rebuild their lives and country after the devastation of the war. North Korea's Mundane Revolution traces the origins of the country's long-term durability in the questions that Korean women and men raised about the modern individual, housing, family life, and consumption. Using a wide range of overlooked sources, Andre Schmid examines the formation of a gendered socialist lifestyle in North Korea by focusing on the localized processes of socioeconomic and cultural change. This style of "New Living" replaced radical definitions of gender and class revolution with the politics of individual self-reform and cultural elevation, leading to a depoliticization of the country's political culture in the very years that Kim Il Sung rose to power.

Andre Schmid is Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto.

Erscheinungsdatum	20.01.2024
Reihe/Serie	Asia Pacific Modern ; 19
Zusatzinfo	36 b-w illustrations
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-39284-1 / 0520392841
ISBN-13	978-0-520-39284-7 / 9780520392847
Zustand	Neuware