South Koreans in the Debt Crisis - The Creation of a Neoliberal Welfare Society

Informationen zum Autor Jesook Song is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Klappentext Examines the rise of neoliberal social welfare policy in South Korea during the period of the Asian Debt Crisis, the ultimate consequences of which include the reinforcing of traditional gender roles. Zusammenfassung Examines the logic underlying the neoliberal welfare state that South Korea created in response to the devastating Asian Debt Crisis (1997-2001). Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface ix Acknowledgments xxiii Introduction: The Emergence of the Neoliberal Welfare State in South Korea 1 1. The Seoul Train Station Square and the House of Freedom 25 2. "Family Breakdown" and Invisible Homeless Women 49 3. Assumptions and Images of Homeless Women's Needs 73 4. Youth as Neoliberal Subjects of Welfare and Labor 95 5. The Dilemma of Progressive Intellectuals 117 Coda: The Pursuit of Well-Being 135 Notes 141 Glossary 163 Bibliography 169

Product details

• Authors: Jesook Song
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.08.2009
• EAN: 9780822344643
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4464-3
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific, Culture, Politic; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politic
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries