[KS] call for papers "The State, Violence and the Rule of Law"

Jim Thomas jimpthomas at hotmail.com
Tue May 1 17:32:56 EDT 2012


Use Ashis Nandy's Intimate Enemy for this paper.
It's a great text to analyze Korean colonial occupation.
I can find material on nearly every page to analyze the juxapposing Korean context/condition--perhaps less because Japan and Korea are neighbors than because .
All colonialisms are not the same.
 
State, Violence, Law
Title: Nandy, Colonial Korea, and National Memory 
(cite Jager)
 
In ROK history classrooms and in public consciousness,
 
We may think that more digging into the particularities of colonial records and conditions will yeild greater clarity of colonial life
Where the 35 years of colonial occupation are concered, It is a popular miisconception that more digging will yeild better results
We are all aware of the (following artuments)
 
All of us have heard/know
the familiar refrain 
that sees Japan's colonial occupation of Korea as bent on the extraction of reseources and the annihilation of things Korean.
 
Despite significant evidence to the contrary. Why hold onto that? What does it serve?
 
The other India and the other Britain. is there the possibility of the other Japan.
 
Colonial modernity argument: that the colonial occupation was not all bad; that Korea got something out of it in the way of techonological development, social emancipation, cultural expression through music and other cultural forms), even if that something was not liberty and independence.
 
Growing out of the need to escape or be rid of the legacy of japanese conolinization, Koreas have not looked closely enough at comparative colonialisms (Meyers and Peatie come to mind). In short, Korean colonization is under theorized. Nandy should inject a fair dose of comparative fodder.
 
Nandy, like Fanon,...
 
Mount a sustained argument. 
Write it like Chidester piece. Send for publication while or as I am presenting it.
 
No amount of digging will provide/reveal 
 
As if, for this to have happened, the Japanese must have held a gun to the heads of colonial submects
 
"Many pre-Gandhian protest movements … sought to redeem the Indians' masculinity by
defeating the British, often fighting against hopeless odds, to free the former
once and for all from the historical memory of their own humiliating defeat in
violent power-play and 'tough politics' (9-10).
 
Use this length for full text in PDF format.

 
http://multiworldindia.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/the-intimate-enemy.pdf
 
750 words is 2 1/2 pages



From: koen.de.ceuster at telenet.be
To: koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:31:24 +0200
Subject: [KS] call for papers "The State, Violence and the Rule of Law"





The European Forum on Korean-Japanese History
CALL FOR PAPERS
“The State, Violence and the Rule of Law in Korean-Japanese History” 
International Workshop
28-29 June 2013, Leiden
With the aim of promoting comparative research in Korean and Japanese history and enhancing the dialogue between historians of Korea and Japan in Europe, the European Forum on Korean-Japanese History was established on 18 March 2012. The Forum is an independent body supported by the National Institute for Korean History. Its initial objective is to organize biennial workshops bringing together historians of Japan and Korea to exchange views on subjects of mutual relevance and interest. 
The European Forum functions as a platform where the tangled histories of Korea and Japan are critically debated, common framing concepts are questioned, source materials are reread and untapped archival materials mobilized. As the professional field is still largely defined by national labels – we are historians of Korea and/or Japan – the European Forum probes how these labels as ordering principles that subliminally reproduce contemporary antagonisms in both research and teaching can be overcome. For too long a historiography based on the nation-state has prevented relevant dialogues from occurring. Now, theoretical and methodological developments in historiography allow the writing of history beyond the nation-state and open up new fields of research on multidirectional transnational flows of ideas, goods and people; subalternity, historical agency and the multiplicity of perspectives.  
The conceptual triangle State-Violence-Law is on purpose wide open. We seek contributions in English of original research from scholars around the globe dealing with any or all of these concepts from a perspective of institutional, political, social, cultural, international, transnational or comparative history. Papers that introduce hitherto untapped archival resources and/or challenging reinterpretations of established readings are particularly solicited. Unimpressed by the reification of the modern, we explicitly welcome contributions irrespective of period, hoping to strike a balance between “modernists” and “premodernists”.
Abstracts (max. 750 words and a short bio) can be sent to the workshop organizer, Koen De Ceuster (k.de.ceuster at hum.leidenuniv.nl) before 30 July 2012. Authors will be notified of acceptance in the course of the summer.  Full papers are due 25 May 2013. Pending funding, all costs will be covered.
 
The European Forum on Korean-Japanese History
Koen De Ceuster (Leiden University), Chair
Barak Kushner (Cambridge University), Vice-Chair
Michael Shin (Cambridge University)
Klaus Antoni (Tuebingen University)
You Jae Lee (Tuebingen University)
Gwang Oon Kim (NIKH), ex officio.


  		 	   		  
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