Hyun Ok Park

Biographic Data

ID255553
NAMEHyun Ok Park
GIVEN NAMESHyun Ok
FAMILY NAMEPark
SIGNATUREPARK H O
AFFILIATIONSYork University
ORCID0000-0003-0781-8764
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS6
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Reading Burawoy's The Politics of Production Now: On the Political after Post-Politics

    Open AccessHyun Ok ParkARTICLECritical Sociology2024References: 7

  • The Politics of Time: The Sewŏl Ferry Disaster and the Disaster of Democracy

    Open AccessHyun Ok ParkARTICLEThe Journal of Asian Studies2022Cited by: 1References: 5

    The vanishing critique of capitalism within the Sewŏl movement for truth finding has revealed the bare face of the current democratic order and its rule of law. This article presents the Sewŏl movement as the bellwether, in a synchronic sense, of the Candlelight Protests that have become a modality of direct action in South Korea. I seek to contribute to our understanding of the life politics that has become a key marker of struggles against the …

  • The Capitalist Unconscious

    Hyun Ok ParkCHAPTERCapitalist Unconscious2015

    Chapter 1 formulates a transnational approach to the Korea question and embeds it in the larger historical and theoretical inquiry into modern sovereignty, the crisis of capitalism, and the temporality of historical change.

  • The Capitalist Unconscious: From Korean Unification to Transnational Korea

    Hyun Ok ParkBOOKCapitalist Unconscious2015

    The unification of North and South Korea is widely considered an unresolved and volatile matter for the global order, but this book argues capital has already unified Korea in a transnational form. As Hyun Ok Park demonstrates, rather than territorial integration and family union, the capitalist unconscious drives the current unification, imagining the capitalist integration of the Korean peninsula and the Korean diaspora as a new democratic mome…

  • Two dreams in one bed: Empire, social life, and the origins of the North Korean revolution in Manchuria

    Hyun Ok ParkBOOKTwo dreams in one bed2005

  • Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria

    Hyun Ok Park, John Lie et al.BOOKTwo Dreams in One Bed2005

    Rethinking a key epoch in East Asian history, Hyun Ok Park formulates a new understanding of early-twentieth-century Manchuria. Most studies of the history of modern Manchuria examine the turbulent relations of the Chinese state and imperialist Japan in political, military, and economic terms. Park presents a compelling analysis of the constitutive effects of capitalist expansion on the social practices of Korean migrants in the region.Drawing on…

  • Repetition, Comparability, and Indeterminable Nation: Korean Migrants in the 1920s and 1990s

    Hyun Ok ParkARTICLEboundary 22005Cited by: 2

    Research Article| May 01 2005 Repetition, Comparability, and Indeterminable Nation: Korean Migrants in the 1920s and 1990s Hyun Ok Park Hyun Ok Park Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2005) 32 (2): 227–251. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-32-2-227 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Hyun Ok Park; Repetition, Comparability, and Indeterminable Nation: Korean Migrants in the 1…

  • Korean Manchuria: The Racial Politics of Territorial Osmosis

    Hyun Ok ParkARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly2000Cited by: 3

    The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 99, Number 1, Winter 2000

  • Peasant Protest and Social Change in Colonial Korea

    Hyun Ok Park, Gi-Wook Shin et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1998