Ji-Hyun Ahn

Mixed-Race Politics and Neoliberal Multiculturalism in South Korean Media

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Produktbeschreibung

This book studies how the increase of visual representation of mixed-race Koreans formulates a particular racial project in contemporary South Korean media. It explores the moments of ruptures and disjuncture that biracial bodies bring to the formation of neoliberal multiculturalism, a South Korean national racial project that re-aligns racial lines under the nation's neoliberal transformation. Specifically, Ji-Hyun Ahn examines four televised racial moments that demonstrate particular aspects of neoliberal multiculturalism by demanding distinct ways of re-imagining what it means to be Korean in the contemporary era of globalization. Taking a critical media/cultural studies approach, Ahn engages with materials from archives, the popular press, policy documents, television commercials, and television programs as an inter-textual network that actively negotiates and formulates a new racialized national identity. In doing so, the book provides a rich analysis of the ongoing struggleover racial reconfiguration in South Korean popular media, advancing an emerging scholarly discussion on race as a leading factor of social change in South Korea.

Produktdetails

• East Asian Popular Culture
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-319-65773-8
• 1st ed. 2018
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 444g
• ISBN-13: 9783319657738
• ISBN-10: 3319657739
• Artikelnr.: 48676177

Autorenporträt

Ji-Hyun Ahn is Assistant Professor of Communication in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at The University of Washington Tacoma, USA. Her works have appeared in highly acclaimed journals in the field such as Media, Culture & Society, Cultural Studies, and Asian Ethnicity.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The New Face of Korea.- Chapter 3. From National Threat to National Hero.- Chapter 4. Consuming Cosmopolitan White(ness).- Chapter 5. Televising the Making of Neoliberal Multicultural Family.- Chapter 6. This is (Not) Our Multicultural Future.