Measured Excess Status, Gender, and Consumer Nationalism in South Korea

Name: Measured Excess Status, Gender, and Consumer Nationalism in South Korea
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ISBN: 9780231116176

ISBN-10: 0231116179

ISBN-13: 9780231116176

Edition: 2000

Authors: Laura Nelson

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This insightful analysis of the ways in which South Korean economic development strategies have reshaped the country's national identity gives specific attention to the manner in which women, as the primary agents of consumption, have been affected by this transformation. Past scholarship on the culture of nationalism has largely focused on the ways in which institutions utilize memory and "history" to construct national identity. In a provocative departure, Laura C. Nelson challenges these assumptions with regard to South Korea, arguing that its identity has been as much tied to notions of the future as rooted in a recollection of the past. Following a backlash against consumerism in the…

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 12/6/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 0.66" wide x 0.92" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Preface


The Paleocene: The Dark Epoch


The Eocene: Reaching the Climax


The Oligocene: A Time of Change


The Early to Middle Miocene: When the Continents Collide


The Late Miocene: The Beginning of the Crisis


The Pliocene: The End of a World


The Pleistocene: The Age of Humankind


Index