Toward a Cultural History in the Korean Present: Locating the Cultural Politics of the Everyday
Lee, Keehyeung
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Title
Toward a Cultural History in the Korean Present: Locating the Cultural Politics of the Everyday
Author(s)
Lee, Keehyeung
Issue Date
2002
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Denzin, Norman K.
Department of Study
Communication
Discipline
Communication
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Sociology, Theory and Methods
Language
eng
Abstract
"The aim of this thesis is to explore the complex and messy terrain of Korean cultural studies by working through and articulating a number of explanatory frameworks and problematics---in particular, the cultural politics of theory, the national-popular culture, the urban place/space, and the increasing effects of globalization as a powerful discourse and lived process in South Korea. In the dissertation, I chart and assess how different groups of Korean intellectuals have attempted to come to grips with the radical recomposition of culture, politics, and society in post-authoritarian Korea by selectively mobilizing various theoretical frameworks largely borrowed from Anglo-American cultural studies. In particular, in situating the explosion of a variety of cultural criticism and cultural studies, I analyze the ways local practitioners in cultural studies have labored and struggled to define ""cultural politics [munhwa jungchihak]"" and taken it as an emergent---at the same time agonizingly elusive---intellectual concern and new base for critical and imaginative intervention into ""everyday life."""
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