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Korea and Its Futures - Unification and the Unfinished War

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Despite the passage of over forty years since the official end of the civil war in Korea, the north and the south sections of the country remain technically at war. In Korea and Its Futures, Roy Richard Grinker argues that the continued conflict between North and South Korea, and the prospects for peace on the Korean peninsula, must be understood within the broader social and cultural contexts in which Koreans live. Grinker suggests that a fundamental obstacle to peace on the peninsula is that South Korea has become a nation in which nearly all aspects of economic, political, and cultural identity are defined in opposition to North Korea. He further demonstrates that in spite of its status as a sacred goal for all Koreans, the idea of unification threatens the world in which almost every South Korean has been born and raised. In chapters on defectors, divided families, student protests, and early education, Grinker reveals how South Korean conceptions of unification prevent either side from recognizing that a unified Korea must also be a diverse Korea. In other words, Grinker points out, unification is largely perceived by South Koreans not as the integration of different identities but as the southern conquest and assimilation of the north - in short, as winning the war. Korea and Its Futures is a critical and illuminating look at a conflict which has refused to yield despite changes in a post-Cold War world.

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Roy Richard Grinker is Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at George Washington University and Senior Asian Fellow at the Atlantic Council of the United States in Washington, DC.


Summary

Despite the passage of over forty years since the official end of the civil war in Korea, the north and the south sections of the country remain technically at war.

Product details

Authors Richard Roy Grinker, Roy Richard Grinker, Na Na
Publisher Springer Palgrave Macmillan
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.01.2000
 
EAN 9780312224721
ISBN 978-0-312-22472-1
No. of pages 316
Dimensions 148 mm x 20 mm x 215 mm
Weight 434 g
Illustrations XIX, 316 p.
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries
Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science

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