Toward a Cultural History in the Korean Present: Locating the Cultural Politics of the Everyday

"The aim of this thesis is to explore the complex and messy terrain of Korean cultural studies by working through and articulating a number of explanatory frameworks and problematics---in particular, the cultural politics of theory, the national-popular culture, the urban place/space, and the increasing effects of globalization as a powerful discourse and lived process in South Korea. In the dissertation, I chart and assess how different groups of Korean intellectuals have attempted to come to grips with the radical recomposition of culture, politics, and society in post-authoritarian Korea by selectively mobilizing various theoretical frameworks largely borrowed from Anglo-American cultural studies. In particular, in situating the explosion of a variety of cultural criticism and cultural studies, I analyze the ways local practitioners in cultural studies have labored and struggled to define ""cultural politics [munhwa jungchihak]"" and taken it as an emergent---at the same time agonizingly elusive---intellectual concern and new base for critical and imaginative intervention into ""everyday life."""

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communication

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Lee, Keehyeung

Contributors dc:contributor

• Denzin, Norman K.

• Sociology, Theory and Methods

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3070361

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/87506