Hazel Smith

North Korea (eBook, ePUB)

Markets and Military Rule

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Produktbeschreibung

In this historically grounded, richly empirical study of social and economic transformation in North Korea, Hazel Smith evaluates the 'marketization from below' that followed the devastating famine of the early 1990s, estimated to be the cause of nearly one million fatalities. Smith shows how the end of the Cold War in Europe and the famine brought radical social change to all of North Korean society. This major new study analyses how marketization transformed the interests, expectations and values of the entire society, including Party members, the military, women and men, the young and the elderly. Smith shows how the daily life of North Koreans has become alienated from the daily pronouncements of the North Korean government. Challenging stereotypes of twenty-five million North Koreans as mere bystanders in history, Smith argues that North Koreans are 'neither victims nor villains' but active agents of their own destiny.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316233979
• Artikelnr.: 52863831

Autorenporträt

Hazel Smith is a poet, performer, electronic writer and academic. She has published six volumes of poetry including 'The Erotics of Geography', Tinfish Press, 2008, 'Word Migrants', Giramondo, 2016 and 'Ecliptical', ES-Press, Spineless Wonders, 2022. She has published numerous performance and multimedia works, and has performed and presented her work extensively internationally, has been commissioned by the ABC to write several works for radio, and has been co-recipient of numerous Australia Council for the Arts grants. She is a founding member of the multimedia ensemble austraLYSIS. In 2018, with Will Luers and Roger Dean, she was awarded first place in the Electronic Literature Organisation's Robert Coover prize. In 2023 her collaboration with Luers and Dean, 'Dolphins in the Reservoir', was shortlisted for the UK New Media Writing Prize. Hazel is an Emeritus Professor in the Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University. She has authored several academic books including 'Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara', Liverpool University Press, 2000, 'The Writing Experiment', Allen and Unwin, 2005 and 'The Contemporary Literature-Music Relationship', Routledge, 2016. With Roger Dean she co-edited 'Practice-led Research, Research-led Practice in the Creative Arts', Edinburgh University Press, 2009. Her website is at http://www.australysis.com

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: North Korea: politics, economy and society
Part I. Jettisoning Caricatures: Understanding History: 1. Beyond the clichés
2. National identity
Part II. The Rise and Fall of Kim Il Sungism: 3. Colonial occupation and the rise of Kim Il Sung
4. War-fighting as state-building
5. 'Socialism in our own style'
6. Sisyphus as economic model
7. Social stratification in the workers' state
8. Famine and the end of Kim Il Sungism
Part III. Marketisation and Military Rule: 9. Marketisation from below
10. Military rule from above
11. The marketisation of well-being
12. The marketisation of the social structure
13. Going nuclear
14. Strategic paralysis
15. North Koreans as agents of change
Bibliography
Index.