[KS] New book announcement: Supercorporate: Distinction and Participation in Post-Hierarchy South Korea

[Mike Prentice]

Dear Koreanists,

Please excuse the self-promotion, but I would like to announce the
publication of my book, *Supercorporate: Distinction and Participation in
Post-Hierarchy South Korea *from Stanford University Press. The blurb for
the book is the following:


*What should South Korean offices look like in a post-hierarchical world?
In Supercorporate, anthropologist Michael M. Prentice examines a central
tension in visions of big corporate life in South Korea's twenty-first
century: should corporations be sites of fair distinction or equal
participation?*




*As South Korea distances itself from images and figures of a hierarchical
past, Prentice argues that the drive to redefine the meaning of corporate
labor echoes a central ambiguity around corporate labor today. Even as
corporations remain idealized sites of middle-class aspiration in South
Korea, employees are torn over whether they want greater recognition for
their work or meaningful forms of cooperation. Through an in-depth
ethnography of the Sangdo Group conglomerate, the book examines how
managers attempt to perfect corporate social life through new office
programs while also minimizing the risks of creating new hierarchies.
Ultimately, this book reveals how office life is a battleground for working
out the promises and the perils of economic democratization in one of East
Asia's most dynamic countries.*

An author interview has been just published on CaMP Anthropology
<https://campanthropology.org/2022/06/14/michael-prentice/>.

For those in the US, the book can be purchased through SUP
<https://www.sup.org/books/precart/?id=31761> with a 20% discount code of
PRENTICE 20, as well as other major online booksellers.
For those in the UK or Europe, the book can be purchased through Combined
Academic Publishers
<https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781503631878/supercorporate/> with a
30% discount with the code CSF22RAI.

Best,
Mike

--
*Dr Mike Prentice*
Lecturer in Korean Studies
Director of Undergraduate Studies
School of East Asian Studies
mike.prentice at sheffield.ac.uk
Publications <https://sheffield.academia.edu/MichaelPrentice>
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