The Capitalist Unconscious: From Korean Unification to

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The Capitalist Unconscious: From Korean Unification to Transnational Korea

The unification of North and South Korea is widely considered an unresolved and volatile matter for the global order, but this book argues capital has already unified Korea in a transnational form. As Hyun Ok Park demonstrates, rather than territorial integration and family union, the capitalist unconscious drives the current unification, imagining the capitalist integration of the Korean peninsula and the Korean diaspora as a new democratic moment.
Based on extensive archival and ethnographic research in South Korea and China, The Capitalist Unconscious shows how the hegemonic democratic politics of the post-Cold War era (reparation, peace, and human rights) have consigned the rights of migrant laborersâ€•protagonists of transnational Koreaâ€•to identity politics, constitutionalism, and cosmopolitanism. Park reveals the riveting capitalist logic of these politics, which underpins legal and policy debates, social activism, and media spectacle.
While rethinking the historical trajectory of Cold War industrialism and its subsequent liberal path, this book also probes memories of such key events as the North Korean and Chinese revolutions, which are integral to migrants' reckoning with capitalist allures and communal possibilities. Casting capitalist democracy within an innovative framework of historical repetition, Park elucidates the form and content of the capitalist unconscious at different historical moments and dissolves the modern opposition among socialism, democracy, and dictatorship. The Capitalist Unconscious astutely explores the neoliberal present's past and introduces a compelling approach to the question of history and contemporaneity.

Country	USA
Author	Hyun Ok Park
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9780231171939
Edition	Reprint
ISBN	0231171935
Label	Columbia University Press
Manufacturer	Columbia University Press
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	400
PublicationDate	2018-01-16
Publisher	Columbia University Press
Studio	Columbia University Press
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

The Capitalist Unconscious: From Korean Unification to Transnational Korea

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