English Pages [] Year This book is divided into three sections comprised of pairs of chapters. First, a section examining how Confucianism int. Anthropologist Rachael Joo explores the gendered and mediated role of sports in producing a Korean sense of self on a gl. How the university went global and became the heart of the information age The university is experiencing an unprecede. Environmentalism and Global International Society reveals how environmental values and ideas have transformed the normat.
In the half century after , South Korea went from an impoverished, largely rural nation ruled by a succession of aut. Korean families are changing fast. While birth rates remain low, Koreans are marrying and starting a family later than e. This book will be valuable reading to students and researchers from a wide range of disciplines including sociology, gender studies, ethnic studies, media studies, IR, and area studies, in particular Korean studies.
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Her work centers on transnational migration and gender including the Korean diaspora. In addition, she has edited a volume entitled Transnational Mobility in and out of Korea, She holds a doctoral degree in East Asian economy and society. Her recent work was published in e. Tanja Eydam is a doctoral candidate and research assistant in the department of Korean studies at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Her background is in literary and cultural theory as well as empirical linguistics, Korean List of contributors ix studies, ethnology, and gender studies.
Her research interests surround national identity, migration, and power relations in South Korean society and media. In her doctoral thesis, she examines how gender, race, and class intersect in the depiction of Germans in popular Korean television shows and what this means for the construction of a modern South Korean national identity in a globalized, yet hierarchical world.
