[KS] Publication Announcement-The Political Economy of Korea

[John Jojin]

Dear list members,

Pleasure to announce the publication of the book titled 'The Political
Economy of Korea: Transition, Transformation and Turnaround' (Palgrave
Macmillan
<http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/the-political-economy-of-korea-jitendra-uttam/?K=9781137451231>)
by Dr. Jitendra Uttam, Assistant Professor in Korean Studies at Jawaharlal
Nehru University, New Delhi.

Moving away from the traditional focus on aspects such as market, state and
world systems, culture, and colonialism, this book argues that Korea's
so-called 'second state' was revitalized through the 'people's movement'
and the more recent 'citizens movement'.

It notes how Korea's '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 give due consideration
to the sacrifices made by the Korean people to enlarge the social basis of
Korean capitalism.

Following are the 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


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Best regards,

John Jojin
Research Scholar
Jawaharlal Nehru University
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