Understanding the dynamics of state power in North Korea: Militant nationalism and people's everyday lives.

详细信息   

• 作者：Kang ; Jin Woong.
• 学历：Doctor
• 年：2011
• 毕业院校：University of Minnesota
• Department：Sociology.
• ISBN：9781124671031
• CBH：3457089
• Country：USA
• 语种：English
• FileSize：5392507
• Pages：184

文摘

In this dissertation I explore how North Korea's anti-American state power has operated in individuals' everyday practices by focusing on its militant nationalism. The Western image of "Stalinist" North Korea has been of an autocratic,all-powerful totalitarian state inexorably imposing its harsh will upon its subjects. However,existing studies have neglected an aspect of North Korea's nationalist power that has been neither necessarily top-down nor violent,but rather productive and diffusive in people's everyday lives. While the regime's anti-American mobilization has come from above,people's politics of hatred,patriotism,and emotion have been reproduced from below. Along this line,I examine how the state's militant nationalism was legitimated by people's solid micro-fascism from the 1950s through the 1980s,and how it has been contested and recreated through both change and persistence in people's micro-fascism from the 1990s through the present.