Power, place, and state-society relations in Korea : neo-Confucian and geomantic reconstruction of developmental state and democratization / Jongwoo Han.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Han, Jongwoo, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democratization.

Korea (South)--Politics and government.

Korea (South).

Politics and government.

Democratization--Korea (South).

Korea (South)--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

China--Economic conditions--2000-.

China.

Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

xii, 413 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2014]

Summary:

Power, Place, and State-Society Relations in Korea addresses the simultaneous phenomena of Korea's rapid economic development and its vibrant democratization in a single coherent paradigm. Jongwoo Han takes a holistic and historical approach to understanding these phenomena by examining the state's role in the unprecedented economic development and society's capabilities to resist the state's centralized power. Han rearticulates state-society relations through Onuf's social constructivist method based on three rules of a political community: hegemony, hierarchy, and heteronomy. This book expands upon this effort to reconstruct the state and society relations in two ways. First, it produces case studies of the capital cities of Hanyang (Joseon Dynasty from 1392 to 1910), Kyeongseong (Japanese colonial control from 1910 to 1945), and Seoul (1945-current). The capital city is analyzed as a container for the major ideologies and ways of thinking that have shaped three important political eras. Second, it adopts two indigenous thoughts, Neo-Confucianism and geomancy, as sources of the main political and cultural ideologies that contour Korea's state and society relations, which have been mostly neglected in our understanding of modern Korean phenomenon. This book finds that both Neo-Confucianism and geomancy, over two periods of Hanyang and Kyeongseong, are two main contributing factors of the emergence of the developmental state and vibrant democracy in Korea in the Seoul era. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

2 Indigenous Model for State Hegemony: Neo-Confucianism, Power, and Place 49

3 The Hanyang Prototype of Hegemony, Hierarchy, and Heteronomy 129

4 Kyeongseong: Local-Global Interaction 197

5 The Seoul Era: The Emergence of the Developmental State and Democracy 249

6 Korea's Simultaneous Achievements Reconsidered 301.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739175545

0739175548

OCLC:

852833486