The Ruralist Paradigm
Social Work Bureaucrats in Colonial Korea and Japan's Assimilationism in the Interwar Period
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 2109019 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Sayaka Chatani (0000-0001-6050-0937, National University of Singapore, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2016 |
| Volumen | 58 |
| Número | 4 |
| Páginas | 1004-1031 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2016-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Editorial | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417516000517 |
| OpenAlex | W2526037530 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 43 |
How did the Japanese Empire, while adamantly adhering to assimilationism, manage the politics of colonial difference in the interwar years? How should we situate the seemingly exceptional conduct of Japanese colonial rule from a comparative perspective? To examine these questions, this article analyzes the mindsets of mid-level colonial bureaucrats who specialized in social work. Social work became a major field of political contestation in the post-World War I period around the globe. Policies on social work tested colonial officials regarding their assumptions about state-society relationships and Japan's assimilationist goals. Their debates on social work reveal that by the end of the 1920s colonial officials in Korea had reached a tacit consensus to use a particular analytical lens and ideological goal that I call 'ruralism.' In the ruralist paradigm, these officials viewed Korean society as consisting of 'rural peasants' and understood Korean social problems as primarily 'rural problems.' Ruralism was a product of many overlapping factors, including pressures to integrate colonial society into the imperial system, the empire-wide popularity of agrarian nationalism, global discourses that increasingly dichotomized the 'rural' and the 'industrial,' and the rivalry between the colonial government and the metropole. How social work officials re-conceptualized the colonial masses and attempted to engage with social problems under the rhetoric of assimilationism showed a similar dynamic to the 'developmental colonialism' that prevailed in the French and British empires after World War II
Agrarian society · Colonialism · Economic history · Empire · Ideology · Interwar period · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · World War II · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law
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| Altamente citado | No |