Russell Burge

The Promised Republic

Developmental Society and the Making of Modern Seoul, 1961-1979. Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 360 Seiten
ISBN 0674304810
EAN 9780674304819
Veröffentlicht 2. Juni 2026
Verlag/Hersteller Harvard University Press
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Beschreibung

In The Promised Republic, Russell Burge offers a bold new history of South Korea's rapid development. By focusing on the experience of rural-to-urban migrants who built and lived in Seoul's shantytowns, Burge historicizes national development as a site of struggle with the urban poor at its center. What would a society of postcolonial abundance look like? Who was this society built for, and how would access to the city that formed its economic center be claimed and defended? These were the questions at stake in the urban struggles of the 1960s and 1970s, an era when authorities found themselves caught between a mandate to create well-disciplined cities and the promise of broad uplift that legitimated their leadership. Utilizing memoirs, interviews, newspapers, journals, photographs, literature, anthropological records, and critical as well as official sources, Burge reconstructs a not-altogether-vanished world and provides historical background of conflicts over urban access and inequality that continue to enrage and resonate to this day.

Portrait

Russell Burge is Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of Korean History at Indiana University Bloomington.