Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea Lee Namhee
Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea Lee Namhee In Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea Namhee Lee explores memory construction and…
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Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea Lee Namhee
In Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea Namhee Lee explores memory construction and history writing in post-1987 South Korea. This shift reconstituted people as Homo economicus, rights-bearing and rights-claiming individuals, even in social movements. The massive neoliberal reconstruction of all aspects of society shifted public discourse from minjung (people) to simin (citizen), from political to cultural, from collective to individual.
By examining memoirs, biographies, novels, and revisionist conservative historical scholarship, Lee shows how the dominant discourse of a "complete break with the past" erases the Lee explains this shift in the context of simultaneous historical developments: South Korea's transition to democracy, the end of the Cold War, and neoliberal reconstruction understood as synonymous with democratization.
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