Mun Young Cho
Biographic Data
| ID | 113370 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mun Young Cho |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mun Young |
| FAMILY NAME | Cho |
| SIGNATURE | CHO M Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yonsei University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
We Are All Implicated: An Interview With Korean Anthropologist Mun Young Cho
This interview with Professor Mun Young Cho, a leading cultural anthropologist at Yonsei University, explores her intellectual journey and research on poverty, labor, development, and youth in China and South Korea. Trained in South Korea and the United States, Professor Cho reflects on her encounters with socialism, neoliberal reforms, and the intellectual shifts between these contexts. The conversation delves into her work bridging academic sch…
Intersecting Labor in the Social Factory: Trajectory of a Migrant Woman in South China
With the simultaneous growth of the manufacturing and service industries and the rapid expansion of information and communication technology, what do Chinese workers actually do in order to survive, and what methodological approaches are useful for exploring their subjectivity? In this article, the labor trajectory of Zuo Mei, a young migrant woman, is traced over six and a half years. The author relates Zuo's experience to what Mario Tronti call…
The Precariat That Can Speak: The Politics of Encounters between the Educated Youth and the Urban Poor in Seoul
In this article, I explore how different groups of the precariat endure and struggle with specific and hierarchical forms of precarity in Seoul. By paying attention to which precarity matters, and to whom it belongs, I examine the friction between the educated youth-the "deserving" precariat that can speak-and the urban poor, who endure abandonment. This collaborative project, in which university students encountered welfare recipients and homele…
The Neoliberal Production of a “Culture of Poverty” in a Korean Migrant Enclave in Northeast China
Research Article| August 01 2018 The Neoliberal Production of a “Culture of Poverty” in a Korean Migrant Enclave in Northeast China Mun Young Cho Mun Young Cho Mun Young Cho is an associate professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Yonsei University, South Korea. Her research focuses on poverty, labor, activism, development, and youth in China and South Korea. She is the author of the book The Specter of “the People”: Urban Poverty …
Acknowledging the 2014 Anthony Leeds Prize in Urban Anthropology
Dividing the poor: State governance of differential impoverishment in northeast China
How is poverty being managed in China when pauperization of some has become an unavoidable condition of the market economy and when the poor, nevertheless, attempt to make legitimate claims that cannot be overlooked by the developmental and officially socialist state? In this article, I examine "dividing the poor" as a project of governing urban laid-off workers and rural migrants in postreform China. This project has been made possible through a…
We Are the State: An Entrepreneurial Mission to Serve the People in Harbin, Northeast China
How can we explain market actors’ desire to use the state as a model for their entrepreneurial efforts? This article examines the varied and uneven ways in which the state is mimicked and appropriated by China’s market actors in the health care sector. A massage franchiser, which doubles as a job-training center in Harbin, serves as an ethnographic instance. By invoking a scene where the persistent appeal to the state is bound up with volatile ma…
On the Edge between “the People” and “the Population: Ethnographic Research on the Minimum Livelihood Guarantee
This article examines how local resistance against government attempts to reduce poverty to a technical problem ironically reinforces the precarious state of the poor. It looks at the workings of the minimum livelihood guarantee ( dibao ) through mundane interactions between street-level officials and poor residents in a workers' village on the periphery of Harbin. As the party-state's primary policy for urban poverty, dibao has introduced a new …
Forced Flexibility: A Migrant Woman's Struggle for Settlement
Dividing the poor: State governance of differential impoverishment in northeast China
How is poverty being managed in China when pauperization of some has become an unavoidable condition of the market economy and when the poor, nevertheless, attempt to make legitimate claims that cannot be overlooked by the developmental and officially socialist state? In this article, I examine "dividing the poor" as a project of governing urban laid-off workers and rural migrants in postreform China. This project has been made possible through a…
Forced Flexibility: A Migrant Woman's Struggle for Settlement
On the Edge between “the People” and “the Population: Ethnographic Research on the Minimum Livelihood Guarantee
This article examines how local resistance against government attempts to reduce poverty to a technical problem ironically reinforces the precarious state of the poor. It looks at the workings of the minimum livelihood guarantee ( dibao ) through mundane interactions between street-level officials and poor residents in a workers' village on the periphery of Harbin. As the party-state's primary policy for urban poverty, dibao has introduced a new …
The Precariat That Can Speak: The Politics of Encounters between the Educated Youth and the Urban Poor in Seoul
In this article, I explore how different groups of the precariat endure and struggle with specific and hierarchical forms of precarity in Seoul. By paying attention to which precarity matters, and to whom it belongs, I examine the friction between the educated youth-the "deserving" precariat that can speak-and the urban poor, who endure abandonment. This collaborative project, in which university students encountered welfare recipients and homele…
Intersecting Labor in the Social Factory: Trajectory of a Migrant Woman in South China
With the simultaneous growth of the manufacturing and service industries and the rapid expansion of information and communication technology, what do Chinese workers actually do in order to survive, and what methodological approaches are useful for exploring their subjectivity? In this article, the labor trajectory of Zuo Mei, a young migrant woman, is traced over six and a half years. The author relates Zuo's experience to what Mario Tronti call…
The Neoliberal Production of a “Culture of Poverty” in a Korean Migrant Enclave in Northeast China
Research Article| August 01 2018 The Neoliberal Production of a “Culture of Poverty” in a Korean Migrant Enclave in Northeast China Mun Young Cho Mun Young Cho Mun Young Cho is an associate professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Yonsei University, South Korea. Her research focuses on poverty, labor, activism, development, and youth in China and South Korea. She is the author of the book The Specter of “the People”: Urban Poverty …
We Are the State: An Entrepreneurial Mission to Serve the People in Harbin, Northeast China
How can we explain market actors’ desire to use the state as a model for their entrepreneurial efforts? This article examines the varied and uneven ways in which the state is mimicked and appropriated by China’s market actors in the health care sector. A massage franchiser, which doubles as a job-training center in Harbin, serves as an ethnographic instance. By invoking a scene where the persistent appeal to the state is bound up with volatile ma…
We Are All Implicated: An Interview With Korean Anthropologist Mun Young Cho
This interview with Professor Mun Young Cho, a leading cultural anthropologist at Yonsei University, explores her intellectual journey and research on poverty, labor, development, and youth in China and South Korea. Trained in South Korea and the United States, Professor Cho reflects on her encounters with socialism, neoliberal reforms, and the intellectual shifts between these contexts. The conversation delves into her work bridging academic sch…
Forced Flexibility: A Migrant Woman's Struggle for Settlement
On the Edge between “the People” and “the Population: Ethnographic Research on the Minimum Livelihood Guarantee
This article examines how local resistance against government attempts to reduce poverty to a technical problem ironically reinforces the precarious state of the poor. It looks at the workings of the minimum livelihood guarantee ( dibao ) through mundane interactions between street-level officials and poor residents in a workers' village on the periphery of Harbin. As the party-state's primary policy for urban poverty, dibao has introduced a new …
We Are the State: An Entrepreneurial Mission to Serve the People in Harbin, Northeast China
How can we explain market actors’ desire to use the state as a model for their entrepreneurial efforts? This article examines the varied and uneven ways in which the state is mimicked and appropriated by China’s market actors in the health care sector. A massage franchiser, which doubles as a job-training center in Harbin, serves as an ethnographic instance. By invoking a scene where the persistent appeal to the state is bound up with volatile ma…
Dividing the poor: State governance of differential impoverishment in northeast China
How is poverty being managed in China when pauperization of some has become an unavoidable condition of the market economy and when the poor, nevertheless, attempt to make legitimate claims that cannot be overlooked by the developmental and officially socialist state? In this article, I examine "dividing the poor" as a project of governing urban laid-off workers and rural migrants in postreform China. This project has been made possible through a…
Acknowledging the 2014 Anthony Leeds Prize in Urban Anthropology
The Neoliberal Production of a “Culture of Poverty” in a Korean Migrant Enclave in Northeast China
Research Article| August 01 2018 The Neoliberal Production of a “Culture of Poverty” in a Korean Migrant Enclave in Northeast China Mun Young Cho Mun Young Cho Mun Young Cho is an associate professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Yonsei University, South Korea. Her research focuses on poverty, labor, activism, development, and youth in China and South Korea. She is the author of the book The Specter of “the People”: Urban Poverty …
The Precariat That Can Speak: The Politics of Encounters between the Educated Youth and the Urban Poor in Seoul
In this article, I explore how different groups of the precariat endure and struggle with specific and hierarchical forms of precarity in Seoul. By paying attention to which precarity matters, and to whom it belongs, I examine the friction between the educated youth-the "deserving" precariat that can speak-and the urban poor, who endure abandonment. This collaborative project, in which university students encountered welfare recipients and homele…
Intersecting Labor in the Social Factory: Trajectory of a Migrant Woman in South China
With the simultaneous growth of the manufacturing and service industries and the rapid expansion of information and communication technology, what do Chinese workers actually do in order to survive, and what methodological approaches are useful for exploring their subjectivity? In this article, the labor trajectory of Zuo Mei, a young migrant woman, is traced over six and a half years. The author relates Zuo's experience to what Mario Tronti call…
We Are All Implicated: An Interview With Korean Anthropologist Mun Young Cho
This interview with Professor Mun Young Cho, a leading cultural anthropologist at Yonsei University, explores her intellectual journey and research on poverty, labor, development, and youth in China and South Korea. Trained in South Korea and the United States, Professor Cho reflects on her encounters with socialism, neoliberal reforms, and the intellectual shifts between these contexts. The conversation delves into her work bridging academic sch…
Political science (7 works) · China (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Political economy (3 works)