Zusatztext A much-needed examination of North Korea and its relationship to South Korea! China! and global capitalism writ large. Informationen zum Autor Hyun Ok Park teaches sociology at York University. She writes about global capitalism! transnational migration! empire! postcolonialism! and the issues of comparison and comparability. She is the author of Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire! Social Life! and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria. Klappentext The unification of North and South Korea is globally volatile, but Hyun Ok Park argues capital has already unified Korea in a transnational form. The capitalist unconscious drives the current unification, imagining the capitalist integration of the Korean peninsula and the Korean diaspora as a new democratic moment. Zusammenfassung The unification of North and South Korea is globally volatile, but Hyun Ok Park argues capital has already unified Korea in a transnational form. The capitalist unconscious drives the current unification, imagining the capitalist integration of the Korean peninsula and the Korean diaspora as a new democratic moment. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Part I: Crisis 1. The Capitalist Unconscious: The Korea Question 2. The Aesthetics of Democratic Politics: Labor, Violence, and Repetition Part II: Reparation 3. Reparation: On Colonial Returnee 4. Socialist Reparation: On Living Labor 5. Chinese Revolution in Repetition: The Minority Question Part III: Peace and Human Rights 6. Korean Unification as Capitalist Hegemony 7. North Korean Revolution in Repetition: Crisis and Value 8. Spectacle of T'albuk: Freedom and Free Labor Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

A much-needed examination of North Korea and its relationship to South Korea, China, and global capitalism writ large.

Autorentext
Hyun Ok Park teaches sociology at York University. She writes about global capitalism, transnational migration, empire, postcolonialism, and the issues of comparison and comparability. She is the author of Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria.

Klappentext

The unification of North and South Korea is globally volatile, but Hyun Ok Park argues capital has already unified Korea in a transnational form. The capitalist unconscious drives the current unification, imagining the capitalist integration of the Korean peninsula and the Korean diaspora as a new democratic moment.

Inhalt
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Crisis

1. The Capitalist Unconscious: The Korea Question
2. The Aesthetics of Democratic Politics: Labor, Violence, and Repetition
   Part II: Reparation
3. Reparation: On Colonial Returnee
4. Socialist Reparation: On Living Labor
5. Chinese Revolution in Repetition: The Minority Question
   Part III: Peace and Human Rights
6. Korean Unification as Capitalist Hegemony
7. North Korean Revolution in Repetition: Crisis and Value
8. Spectacle of T'albuk: Freedom and Free Labor
   Conclusion
   Notes
   Bibliography
   Index