Nancy Abelmann
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 143323 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nancy Abelmann |
| PRENOMES | Nancy |
| SOBRENOME | Abelmann |
| ASSINATURA | ABELMANN N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 278 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The Intimate University
The majority of the 30,000-plus undergraduates at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign-including the large population of Korean American students-come from nearby metropolitan Chicago. Among the campus's largest non-white ethnicities, Korean American students arrive at college hoping to realize the liberal ideals of the modern American university, in which individuals can exit their comfort zones to realize their full potential regardless…
Women, Mobility, and Desire
South Korea's Minjung Movement
The minjung (people's) movement stood at the forefront of the June 1987 nationwide tide that swept away the military in South Korea and opened up space for relatively democratic politics, a more responsible economy, and new directions in culture. This volume is the first in English to grapple specifically with the nature of a national development that lies at the center of the last three decades of tumult and change in South Korea
The Melodrama of Mobility
Through the lives and narratives of eight women, The Melodrama of Mobility chronicles South Korea's experience of dizzyingly rapid development. Nancy Abelmann captures the mood, feeling, and language of a generation and an era while providing a rare window on the personal and social struggles of South Korean modernity. Drawing also from television soap operas and films, she argues that a melodramatic sensibility speaks to South Korea's transforma…
South Korea's Education Exodus
The Domestication of South Korean Early Study Abroad in the First Decade of the Millennium
Memoir/manuals of South Korean pre-college study abroad
In this article, we analyse the memoir/manuals of three 'goose' families. These are South Koreans whose children participate in pre-college study abroad (PSA). One parent (typically the mother) accompanies the child while the other (usually the father) remains at home to support the venture. Although many South Koreans aspire to study abroad, both the mothers and children of goose families have attracted wide criticism - the mothers for being nar…
The Ethnography of the University Initiative
Welcome to this special issue of Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences. As guest editors, we are delighted to be able to share the experiences of the Ethnography of the University Initiative (EUI, www.eui.uiuc.edu), a multi-disciplinary course-based initiative that fosters student research on their own universities and is housed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (U of I). EUI i…
The Domestication of South Korean Pre-College Study Abroad in the First Decade of the Millennium
This essay examines a shift in the newspaper discourse on South Korean pre-college study abroad (chogi yuhak)—the education exodus of pre-college students—in order to consider how South Koreans are managing the considerable social pressure to globalize their children. While in the early years of Pre-College Study Abroad (PSA) in the 1990s, there was a robust media discourse about the promise of alternative human development through PSA, as the ph…
Redeeming Immigrant Parents
Korean American youth experience immigration-related parent-child challenges including language barriers, parent-child conflicts, and generational cultural divides. Using grounded theory methods, this article examines the ways in which 18 Korean American college-enrolled emerging adults retrospectively made sense out of their experiences of immigrant family hardships. Of those who narrated childhood hardship, over half narrated positive change in…
What is StoryCorps, Anyway
This review draws on conversations the four coauthors had about the StoryCorps phenomenon, which we appreciate as a provocative, contemporary example of the public use of oral narratives. Like many...
College rank and neo-liberal subjectivity in South Korea
This paper explores the ways in which contemporary college students in South Korea inhabit new discourses of human development in the context of South Korea's neo-liberal turn and globalization. By using ethnographic methods, we examine the lives of college students across three campuses, a top-tier private school and two mid-tier schools. The college students who we introduce all aspire to and accept the burden of managing their personal formati…
Legacies of Struggle
Christian Universalism and U.S. Multiculturalism
In this paper, we observe a burgeoning Asian campus Christian church (AAC), which until recently was almost exclusively American. In the name of Christian universalism, the AAC is critically transforming itself into an Asian American-led, multicultural church. In spite of its changing composition, some congregants remain unconvinced that the church is really so transformed; in fact, some members continue to think of the church as a Korean America…
Alma Mater
Research Article| March 01 2006 Alma Mater: College, Kinship, and The Pursuit of Diversity Catherine Prendergast; Catherine Prendergast Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nancy Abelmann Nancy Abelmann Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2006) 24 (1 (86)): 37–53. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-24-1_86-37 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search…
Social Science Book Awardee
Brokered Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan, by Joshua Hotaka Roth (Cornell University Press, 2002). Joshua Hotaka Roth's Brokered Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan is an elegant and parsimonious ethnography of Asian Americans - specifically Japanese Brazilians - who find their way to Japan working in the blue-collar sector. Having carefully sketched the political economic structures conditioning this particular migration…
East Asia Section
Class and Cosmopolitan Striving
This article considers the practical and symbolic value of English in South Korea. We argue that English works as an index of South Korea's and South Koreans' cosmopolitan striving in the global order. We assert, however, that the values of English diverge across the class spectrum. We thus examine the life of English and cosmopolitanism through the narratives of three mothers with distinct class positions on their management of their children's …
An Ambitious Counter-Interpretive Tale
Sherry B. Ortner. New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of '58. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, August 2003. pp. 344 In this review essay we are particularly intrigued by the New Jersey Dreaming's theoretical and historical arguments in relation to its mode of ethnographic representation and writing. We admire the book's enormous ambition—to sketch the history of class in the second half of the twentieth century in t…
Under Construction
Korean American Economy and Society
Echoes of the Past, Epics of Dissent
Towards a Transnational Perspective on Migration
Towards. Transnational Perspective on Migration: Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Nationalism Reconsidered. Nina Glick Schiller. Linda Basch. and Cristina Blanc-szanton. eds. New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1992. xv. 259 pp., contributors, references
Korean American Economy and Society
Changes and Conflicts: Korean Immigrant Families in New York. Pyong Gap Min. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1998.134pp.The Korean American Dream: Immigrants and Small Business in New York City. Kyeyoung Park. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997.228 pp.On My Own: Korean Businesses and Race Relations in America. In-Jin Yoon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.274 pp
Ethnography and Social Movements
Class and Cosmopolitan Striving
This article considers the practical and symbolic value of English in South Korea. We argue that English works as an index of South Korea's and South Koreans' cosmopolitan striving in the global order. We assert, however, that the values of English diverge across the class spectrum. We thus examine the life of English and cosmopolitanism through the narratives of three mothers with distinct class positions on their management of their children's …
College rank and neo-liberal subjectivity in South Korea
This paper explores the ways in which contemporary college students in South Korea inhabit new discourses of human development in the context of South Korea's neo-liberal turn and globalization. By using ethnographic methods, we examine the lives of college students across three campuses, a top-tier private school and two mid-tier schools. The college students who we introduce all aspire to and accept the burden of managing their personal formati…
The Melodrama of Mobility
Through the lives and narratives of eight women, The Melodrama of Mobility chronicles South Korea's experience of dizzyingly rapid development. Nancy Abelmann captures the mood, feeling, and language of a generation and an era while providing a rare window on the personal and social struggles of South Korean modernity. Drawing also from television soap operas and films, she argues that a melodramatic sensibility speaks to South Korea's transforma…
Redeeming Immigrant Parents
Korean American youth experience immigration-related parent-child challenges including language barriers, parent-child conflicts, and generational cultural divides. Using grounded theory methods, this article examines the ways in which 18 Korean American college-enrolled emerging adults retrospectively made sense out of their experiences of immigrant family hardships. Of those who narrated childhood hardship, over half narrated positive change in…
Memoir/manuals of South Korean pre-college study abroad
In this article, we analyse the memoir/manuals of three 'goose' families. These are South Koreans whose children participate in pre-college study abroad (PSA). One parent (typically the mother) accompanies the child while the other (usually the father) remains at home to support the venture. Although many South Koreans aspire to study abroad, both the mothers and children of goose families have attracted wide criticism - the mothers for being nar…
Narrating selfhood and personality in South Korea
In this article I analyze the constitution of selfhood by exploring those narratives about personality that are at the heart of middle‐aged South Korean women's social mobility stories. In this project I consider agency as a discursive phenomenon: it is not an asset but is instead a particular narrative convention. Thus selfhoods are variously fortified by agency or overdetermined by larger social and historical forces. This article thereby contr…
Women's Class Mobility and Identities in South Korea A Gendered, Transnational, Narrative Approach
In examining post-war south korea, we cannot but be struck by the rapid decrease of farm work and the dizzying increases in urban production and petty-entrepreneurial work over the course of a single generation. It is remarkable, for example, that from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s the farming population declined by almost 50 percent. Indeed, South Korea is an exemplar in the development industry and a popular example in the annals of developmen…
Towards a Transnational Perspective on Migration
Towards. Transnational Perspective on Migration: Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Nationalism Reconsidered. Nina Glick Schiller. Linda Basch. and Cristina Blanc-szanton. eds. New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1992. xv. 259 pp., contributors, references
Christian Universalism and U.S. Multiculturalism
In this paper, we observe a burgeoning Asian campus Christian church (AAC), which until recently was almost exclusively American. In the name of Christian universalism, the AAC is critically transforming itself into an Asian American-led, multicultural church. In spite of its changing composition, some congregants remain unconvinced that the church is really so transformed; in fact, some members continue to think of the church as a Korean America…
Kankō to Ongaku
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Korea Briefing, 1993
Blue Dreams
The situation of Los Angeles’s Korean Americans touches on some of American society’s most vexing issues: ethnic conflict, urban poverty, immigration, multiculturalism, and ideological polarization. Combining interviews and sociohistorical analysis, Abelmann gives these problems a human face and clarifies the factors that render them so complex
Blue Dreams
Breaking the Silence
Echoes of thepast, epics of dissent
Culture” and capitalism in South Korea
Janelli, Roger L. (with Dawnhee Yim). Making Capitalism: The Social and Cultural Construction of a South Korean Conglomerate. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1993. x + 276 pp. including bibliography, romanizations, and index. $35.00 cloth. Kim, Choong Soon. The Culture of Korean Industry: An Ethnography of Poongsan Corporation. Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, 1992. xix + 248 pp. including references and index. $29.95 cloth
Ethnography and Social Movements
Echoes of the Past, Epics of Dissent
Echoes of the Past, Epics of Dissent , the story of a South Korean social movement, offers a window to a decade of tumultuous social protest in a postcolonial, divided nation. Abelmann brings a dramatic chapter of modern Korean history to life—a period in which farmers, student activists, and organizers joined to protest the corporate ownership of tenant plots never distributed in the 1949 Land Reform. From public sites of protest to backstage me…
Narrating selfhood and personality in South Korea
In this article I analyze the constitution of selfhood by exploring those narratives about personality that are at the heart of middle‐aged South Korean women's social mobility stories. In this project I consider agency as a discursive phenomenon: it is not an asset but is instead a particular narrative convention. Thus selfhoods are variously fortified by agency or overdetermined by larger social and historical forces. This article thereby contr…
Women's Class Mobility and Identities in South Korea A Gendered, Transnational, Narrative Approach
In examining post-war south korea, we cannot but be struck by the rapid decrease of farm work and the dizzying increases in urban production and petty-entrepreneurial work over the course of a single generation. It is remarkable, for example, that from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s the farming population declined by almost 50 percent. Indeed, South Korea is an exemplar in the development industry and a popular example in the annals of developmen…
Japanese Workers in Protest
Japanese Workers in Protest: An Ethnography of Consciousness and Experience. Christena L. Turner. Berkeley. University of California Press, 1995. 268 pp
Korean American Economy and Society
Echoes of the Past, Epics of Dissent
Towards a Transnational Perspective on Migration
Towards. Transnational Perspective on Migration: Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Nationalism Reconsidered. Nina Glick Schiller. Linda Basch. and Cristina Blanc-szanton. eds. New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1992. xv. 259 pp., contributors, references
Korean American Economy and Society
Changes and Conflicts: Korean Immigrant Families in New York. Pyong Gap Min. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1998.134pp.The Korean American Dream: Immigrants and Small Business in New York City. Kyeyoung Park. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997.228 pp.On My Own: Korean Businesses and Race Relations in America. In-Jin Yoon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.274 pp
Under Construction
An Ambitious Counter-Interpretive Tale
Sherry B. Ortner. New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of '58. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, August 2003. pp. 344 In this review essay we are particularly intrigued by the New Jersey Dreaming's theoretical and historical arguments in relation to its mode of ethnographic representation and writing. We admire the book's enormous ambition—to sketch the history of class in the second half of the twentieth century in t…
Social Science Book Awardee
Brokered Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan, by Joshua Hotaka Roth (Cornell University Press, 2002). Joshua Hotaka Roth's Brokered Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan is an elegant and parsimonious ethnography of Asian Americans - specifically Japanese Brazilians - who find their way to Japan working in the blue-collar sector. Having carefully sketched the political economic structures conditioning this particular migration…
East Asia Section
Class and Cosmopolitan Striving
This article considers the practical and symbolic value of English in South Korea. We argue that English works as an index of South Korea's and South Koreans' cosmopolitan striving in the global order. We assert, however, that the values of English diverge across the class spectrum. We thus examine the life of English and cosmopolitanism through the narratives of three mothers with distinct class positions on their management of their children's …
Alma Mater
Research Article| March 01 2006 Alma Mater: College, Kinship, and The Pursuit of Diversity Catherine Prendergast; Catherine Prendergast Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nancy Abelmann Nancy Abelmann Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2006) 24 (1 (86)): 37–53. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-24-1_86-37 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search…
Christian Universalism and U.S. Multiculturalism
In this paper, we observe a burgeoning Asian campus Christian church (AAC), which until recently was almost exclusively American. In the name of Christian universalism, the AAC is critically transforming itself into an Asian American-led, multicultural church. In spite of its changing composition, some congregants remain unconvinced that the church is really so transformed; in fact, some members continue to think of the church as a Korean America…
What is StoryCorps, Anyway
This review draws on conversations the four coauthors had about the StoryCorps phenomenon, which we appreciate as a provocative, contemporary example of the public use of oral narratives. Like many...
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