After the Korean War : an intimate history

Author(s)

• Kwon, Heonik

Bibliographic Information

After the Korean War : an intimate history

Heonik Kwon

（Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare）

Cambridge University Press, 2020

• : hardback

Note

Summary: "Following his prizewinning studies of the Vietnam War, renowned anthropologist Heonik Kwon presents this groundbreaking study of the Korean War's enduring legacies seen through the realm of intimate human experience. Kwon boldly reclaims kinship as a vital category in historical and political enquiry and probes the grey zone between the modern and the traditional (and between the civil and the social) in the lived reality of Korea's civil war and the Cold War more broadly. With captivating historical detail and innovative conceptual frames, Kwon's moving, creative analysis provides fresh insights into the Korean conflict, civil war and reconciliation, history and memory and critical political theory"--Provided by publisher

Bibliography: p. 210-222

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Following his prizewinning studies of the Vietnam War, renowned anthropologist Heonik Kwon presents this ground-breaking study of the Korean War's enduring legacies seen through the realm of intimate human experience. Kwon boldly reclaims kinship as a vital category in historical and political enquiry and probes the grey zone between the modern and the traditional (and between the civil and the social) in the lived reality of Korea's civil war and the Cold War more broadly. With captivating historical detail and innovative conceptual frames, Kwon's moving, creative analysis provides fresh insights into the Korean conflict, civil war and reconciliation, history and memory and critical political theory.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• 1. Massacres in Korea
• 2. Bad gemeinschaft
• 3. Peace in the feud
• 4. Guilt by association
• 5. Morality and ideology
• 6. The quiet revolution
• Conclusion.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB31666759
• ISBN:
  • 9781108487924
• LCCN: 2019041202
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge
• Pages/Volumes: vi, 231 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DS921.5.S63
  • DC23 : 951.904/21
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : War and society -- Korea
  • LCSH : Kinship -- Political aspects -- Korea
  • LCSH : Social ethics -- Korea
  • LCSH : Collective memory -- Korea
  • LCSH : Cold war -- Social aspects -- Korea
  • LCSH : Korea -- Foreign relations -- 1945-
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA26449073