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Week III:
October 18th and 20th: Industrialization Changes Korea
Tuesday: New groups created by urbanization and industrialization: technology, capital, and industrialization--chaebol, proletarianization, workers, new middle classes
Thursday: Hegemonic notions of masculinity and femininity: the rise and fall of militarized modernity and the development of "citizen consciousness" among the 386 generation.
Take-home mideterm posted on Canvas Tuesday.
Discussion Topic (reading summary due)
What do Kim and Sorensen see as the main trends of the Park era?
What does Kang see as the legacy of industrialization and democratization that young people were dealing with in the candlelight protests?
How does adding the concept of androcentral nationalism enrich our understanding of Korean development 1961-87? How did citizen attitudes change after 1987.
Why is it paradoxical that, according to Eckert, the bourgoiesie lack hegemony in South Korea? How does he explain this?
Reading:
- Hyung-A Kim and Clark Sorensen, "Introduction," In Reassessing the Park Chung Hee Era, 1961-1989. (UW Press, 2011) pp 3-16 (available electronically in the UW library system
- Jiyeon Kang, Igniting the Internet, Introduction and Chapter 1
- Seungsook Moon, "Begetting the Nation: The Androcentric Discourse of National History and Tradition in South Korea," In Eleain H. Kim and Chungmoo Choi, eds Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism (New York: Routledge, 1998) pp33-66 (Available on Course wet site.
- Recommended two of the following:
- Carter Eckert, "The South Korean Bourgeoisie: A Class in Search of Hegemony," Journal of Korean Studies, Vol 7, 1990 pp 115-48 (available electronically in UW library)
- Hagen Koo, "The State, Minjung, and the Working Class in South Korea," in Hagen Koo, ed. ,State and Society in Contemporary Korea (Cornell, 1993) pp 131-63 (available on course web site)
- Hwasook Nam, "Narratives of Women workers in South Korea's Minju Union Movement of the 1970s," <em>The Review of Korean Studies </em>12(4): 13-36. (available electronically in UW library).
- Yoonkyung Lee, "Introduction, " In Militants or Partisans: Labor Unions and Democratic Politics in Korea and Taiwan (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011) pp1-11 (available electronically in UW library)
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