The state, class and developmentalism in South Korea : development as fetish
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The state, class and developmentalism in South Korea : development as fetish
(Routledge advances in Korean studies, 44)
Routledge, 2020
- : hbk
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-285) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book problematises the statist underpinnings of the concept of the 'developmental state,' in terms of both state-society and national-global relations, challenging the notion that the state is the agent of national development qua being autonomous from the domestic and global economies.
Presenting a thorough and comprehensive critical assessment of the extant approaches and theories of the Korean developmental state in particular, this book demonstrates that the existing literature, including Marxist critiques, only inadequately and partially challenge statism. It examines how statism reinforces and is reinforced by 'Third World Developmentalism', the idea that 'development' is in itself a positive goal and that a nationally autonomous mode of development should be promoted as a means of empowerment. In opposition, this book offers a critique of statism by constructing an alternative theoretical framework, extending Marx's concept of commodity fetishism to state-society and national-global relations.
Drawing on a new theoretical framework and significant Korean literature, The State, Class and Developmentalism in South Korea offers a novel historical interpretation and critique of the developmental state in the Korean context. As such, it will be useful to students and scholars of Asian studies, Development Studies and International Political Economy.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: the developmental state, 'Third World developmentalism' and the fetishism of national development
PART I
Forging, reinforcing and reproducing the statist concept of the developmental state
1 Antithesising the state and the market, and the national and the global: forging the statist concept of the developmental state
2 Linking the state and the market: reinforcing the statist concept of the developmental state'
3 Old assumptions in new debates: reproducing the statist concept of the developmental state
PART II
Theorising the developmental state beyond statism
4 Traditional Marxist theories of the state as class content analysis and their application to the Korean developmental state
5 An alternative Marxist theory of the state: social form critique and its application to the Korean developmental state
6 Theorising the developmental state beyond statism: a critique of the fetishism of national development
PART III
The global and social origins of the Korean developmental state and its transformation
7 The rise of the modern Korean state: capitalism by imperialism and capitalism from above
8 The global and social origins of the Korean developmental state
9 The dialectic of political and economic liberalisation, and the transition of the Korean developmental state
Conclusion: democratisation, fetishisation and the transformation of the developmental state
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