The political economy of Korea : transition, transformation and turnaround / Jitendra Uttam, assistant professor in Korean Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Uttam, Jitendra, 1963- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrialization.

History.

Capitalism.

Conglomerate corporations.

Land reform.

Yangban.

Social change.

Korea--Economic conditions.

Korea.

Economic conditions.

Korea--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Korea--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Social change--Korea--History.

Social movements--Korea--History.

Social movements.

Yangban--History.

Land reform--Korea--History.

Conglomerate corporations--Korea--History.

Capitalism--Korea--History.

Industrialization--Korea--History.

Economic history.

Political science.

Social history.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xix, 269 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

"Korea's twin transitions--agrarian to industrial and industrial to post-industrial--effectively transformed the country's political economy. Moving away from the traditional focus on aspects such as market, state and world systems, culture, and colonialism, the author argues that Korea's so-called 'second state' was revitalized through the 'people's movement' and the more recent 'citizens movement'. The 'second state' provided incremental pressure to subvert the agrarian equilibrium of a previous era dominated by the Yangban aristocracy as well as the industrial equilibrium enforced by large business conglomerates. This book is an attempt to acknowledge the sacrifices made by the Korean people to enlarge the basis of Korean capitalism, bringing the wider society into its framework"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

PART I. TRANSITION IN PERSPECTIVE

1. Perspectives, Arguments and the Structure

PART II. LOCATING TWIN TRANSITIONS

2. Situating Korean Political Economy under Twin Transitions

PART III. FIRST TRANSITION : AGRARIAN ARISTOCRACY AND ITS DISCONTENTS

3. Yangban-Centered Agrarian Aristocracy and its Social Discontents, 1700-1910

4. Continuation of Status quo under Colonial Economic Drain, 1910-1945

5. Occupation, War, and Land Reform : Reassertion of the 'Second State', 1945-1960

PART IV. SECOND TRANSITION : INDUSTRIAL BOURGEOIS AND ITS DISCONTENTS

6. Nurturing of National 'Industrial Bourgeois' under Authoritarian Polity, 1961-1997

PART V. TRANSFORMATION & TURNAROUND

7. Crisis, Democratic Consolidation and Civil Society Intervention, 1997-2007

8. Rise of 'Developmental Liberalism' in the Era of Global Uncertainty, 2008-present

9. Korean Political Economy in Retrospect.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137451231

1137451238

OCLC:

881859153