Ethnic Nationalism in Korea - Genealogy, Politics, and LegacyPaperback
Ethnic Nationalism in Korea - Genealogy, Politics, and LegacyPaperback This book explains the roots, politics, and legacy of Korean ethnic nationalism, which is based on the sense of a shared…
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Ethnic Nationalism in Korea - Genealogy, Politics, and LegacyPaperback
This book explains the roots, politics, and legacy of Korean ethnic nationalism, which is based on the sense of a shared bloodline and ancestry. Finding both positions problematic and treating identity formation as a social and historical construct that has crucial behavioral consequences, this book examines how such a blood-based notion has become a dominant source of Korean identity, overriding other forms of identity in the modern era. Belief in a racially distinct and ethnically homogeneous nation is widely shared on both sides of the Korean peninsula, although some scholars believe it is a myth with little historical basis.
It also looks at how the politics of national identity have played out in various contexts in Korea: semicolonialism, civil war, authoritarian politics, democratization, territorial division, and globalization.