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The disciplinary politics of antagonistic nationalism in militarized S outh and N orth K orea
Author(s) -
Kang Jin Woong
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
nations and nationalism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.655
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1469-8129
pISSN - 1354-5078
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8129.2012.00543.x
Subject(s) - nationalism , politics , state (computer science) , discipline , power (physics) , sociology , political science , law , computer science , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics
After the K orean W ar (1950–53), the two militarized K oreas governed each and every member of society in similar ways through their disciplinary politics of antagonistic nationalism. The existing studies of state formation in the two K oreas have neglected an aspect of state power that was neither necessarily top‐down nor violent from above but also reproduced from below. In both S outh and N orth K orea, especially from the 1960s to the 1970s, state power had internal dynamics that penetrated the day‐to‐day activities of most citizens and led them to actively accept and participate in nationalist rule. This article explores an understudied aspect of the two K oreas' state power that was disciplinarily diffused in people's everyday practices through reproduction of aggressive nationalism from below and the organic construction of the individual body and nation.