Moral Authoritarianism: Neighborhood Associations in the Three Koreas, 1931-1972 by Kwon, Shinyoung
Moral Authoritarianism: Neighborhood Associations in the Three Koreas, 1931-1972 by Kwon, Shinyoung

Moral Authoritarianism: Neighborhood Associations in the Three Koreas, 1931-1972

Moral Authoritarianism offers a new perspective on the three modern Korean states--the Japanese colonial state, South Korea,...
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Moral Authoritarianism: Neighborhood Associations in the Three Koreas, 1931-1972 by Kwon, Shinyoung

Moral Authoritarianism: Neighborhood Associations in the Three Koreas, 1931-1972

$231.03
Moral Authoritarianism: Neighborhood Associations in the Three Koreas, 1931-1972 by Kwon, Shinyoung

Moral Authoritarianism: Neighborhood Associations in the Three Koreas, 1931-1972

$231.03
Author: Shinyoung Kwon
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Moral Authoritarianism offers a new perspective on the three modern Korean states--the Japanese colonial state, South Korea, and North Korea--by studying neighborhood associations during the four war decades (1930s-1960s). The existing historiography perceives the three states in relation to imperialism and to the Cold War, thus emphasizing their differences by political changes. By shifting the focus from national policy to local society, this book instead reveals their deep similarities. Neighborhood associations dated back to the premodern Chosŏn period (1392-1910), when they were used to assist local governance. They faded in significance until the colonial government established "patriotic neighborhood associations" in 1938 for its war against China. Through analysis of government documents from the three Koreas and additional sources that include diaries, leaflets, newspapers, and even fiction, Moral Authoritarianism explores neighborhood associations as a site of negotiation between families, local society, and the central government; exposing the moral authoritarian structure present in all three Koreas.

Colonial neighborhood associations, tasked with the national mobilization of local Koreans, advanced programs of mass enlightenment that privileged state interests over individual rights, in the process blurring the line between morality and state authority and superimposing patriarchal familial dynamics on societal relations. Despite their different ideological orientations, the neighborhood associations of two postliberation Koreas shared the same enlightenment mission with their earlier forms, and this commonality is critical to understanding the authoritarian direction taken by South and North Korea. The neighborhood association entrusted each state with promoting community-based morality and spirit of voluntarism as an alternative to amoral laissez-faire capitalism and the individual right-based West. Consequently, the state retained its supremacy over the populace at the most basic level of community organization, and Koreans were encouraged to respond to state calls, culminating into two authoritarianisms of the 1970s--Korean style democracy and "our own style" socialism.

Author: Shinyoung Kwon
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 11/30/2023
Pages: 392
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780824895105

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