Change and Continuity in North Korean Politics
In the years since the death of Kim Jong-il and the formal acknowledgement of Kim Jong-un as head of state, the North Korean regime has made a series of moves to further augment and consolidate the ideological foundations of Kimism and cement the young leaders legitimacy. Historical narratives have played a critical, if often unnoticed, role in this process. This book seeks to chronicle these historical changes and continuities.
Change and Continuity in North Korean Politics explores the stable and shifting political, cultural and economic landscapes of North Korea in the era of Kim Jongun. The contributors deploy a variety of methodologies of analysis focused on the content, narratives and discourse of current North Korean politics, tracing its historical roots and contemporary practical and conceptual manifestations. Moving beyond most analyses of North Koreas political and institutional ideologies, the book explores uncharted spaces of social and cultural relations, including childrens literature, fisheries, grassland reclamation, commemorative culture, and gender. By examining critical moments of change and continuity in the countrys past, it builds a holistic analysis of national politics as it is currently deployed and experienced.
Demonstrating how historical, political and cultural narratives continue to be adapted to suit new and challenging circumstances, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Korean Studies, Korean Politics and Asian Studies.
Adam Cathcart is a lecturer in Chinese history at the University of Leeds, UK. He is the editor of the Sino-NK research website, and of the Papers of the British Association of Korean Studies.
Robert Winstanley-Chesters is a research fellow of Australian National University. He is the author of Environment, Politics and Ideology in North Korea: Landscape as Political Project (2014).
Christopher Green is a researcher in Korean Studies at Leiden University, Netherlands. He is the former international affairs manager of Daily NK in Seoul and translator of the memoir of senior North Korean defector Hwang Jang-yop.
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Frequently cited by journalists and academics, SinoNK.com (Sino-NK) has published essays by, interviews with and reviews of some of the top scholars and practitioners in the field. A scholarly collective of young Sinologists and Korean-ists with a core mission of understanding relations between the Peoples Republic of China and the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK), Sino-NK focuses on documenting the borderland dynamics, transnational ties and history of Northeast Asia by using Korean and Chinese-language-based sources and interdisciplinary research methodologies.
What began as an individual academic weblog has developed into a hub for reliable analysis, source translation and grant-funded outputs. This edited volume is representative of the close collaboration philosophy embraced and practiced by the Sino-NK research community.
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Adam Cathcart , PhD, is a lecturer in Chinese history at the University of Leeds and founder and editor in chief of Sino-NK. Using the Korean edge of Northeast China as a foremost point of reference, his research focuses on contemporary Sino-Korean border issues, North Korean music and Korean War crimes. He is the editor of the Papers of the British Association of Korean Studies (BAKS Papers).
Steven Denney is an Asian Institute graduate fellow and a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He holds an MA in global affairs and policy from Yonsei University (Seoul) and a BA in political science from Harding University. With a primary interest in Korean politics and society and the political economy of Northeast Asia, Steven writes regularly for The Diplomat and has published in The Asan Forum , The Review of Korean Studies , The Stanford Journal of East Asian Studies , the British Association of Korean Studies (BAKS) Papers , and North Korean Review .
Darcie Draudt is a PhD candidate in political science at Johns Hopkins University and a non-resident James A. Kelly fellow at Pacific Forum CSIS. She previously was a research associate for Korean studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC. Her research comprises Northeast Asia relations and security environment, Korean national identity and domestic politics, inter-Korean relations, US-Korea relations, borders and territorial disputes and migration.
Christopher Green is a PhD candidate in Korean Studies at Leiden University and former manager of international affairs for Daily NK . His research interests span the sociopolitical economy, ideology and mediascape of the two Koreas and the multifaceted impact of inter-Korean division. His writings have been featured in The Guardian , Al Jazeera , World Politics Review , Asia Times , Asia Sentinel , and NK News . He has been interviewed by NPR, the BBC, Sky News, Reuters, CNN, and a great many others.
