Joanna Elfving-Hwang
Biographic Data
| ID | 290811 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joanna Elfving-Hwang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Elfving-Hwang |
| SIGNATURE | ELFVING-HWANG J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9751-2077 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
“My wife made me”: Motivations for body and beauty work among older Korean and Chinese migrant adults in Australia
This article examines how older Korean and Chinese migrants living in Perth, Australia, engage in various beauty, grooming and fitness practices to negotiate "successful ageing" in transnational contexts. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 30 men and women aged between 60 and 89, we examine what social meanings are attached to these practices, and how the transnational context of living in Australia has influenced the participants' percep…
Why aid diplomacy eventually pays off: Lessons from Australia’s Sheep Demonstration Farm Project in 1970s South Korea
When two Kelpie sheepdogs and the first consignment of 2,500 Australian sheep arrived in a remote Korean village of Unbong in the summer of 1972, few would have imagined it would lay the foundations for one of the most successful yet forgotten episodes in Australian aid diplomacy. Our research on a hitherto unresearched history of Republic of Korea-Australia foreign aid engagement in the 1970s has found that relatively small projects which focus …
Man Made Beautiful: The Social Role of Grooming and Body Work in Performing Middle-aged Corporate Masculinity in South Korea
This article examines how middle-aged urban men in South Korea relate to age-relevant ideas of beauty in a society in which youthful muscular bodies are increasingly presented as the ideal or, arguably, even as a norm. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 13 male participants aged 36-56 years residing in the Seoul metropolitan area, it seeks to outline what role grooming and aesthetic labor play in their everyday social interactions. The findings …
Media, Cosmetic Surgery and Aspirational Beauty Aesthetics of the Ageing Body in South Korea
This article examines how thinking about technologies of the body and beauty outside mainstream youth-focussed discourses complicates prevalent media arguments that posit aesthetic preferences in South Korean society as primarily driven by a desire to radically alter or to “Westernise” Korean bodies. This article draws on in-depth qualitative interview data, examining aspirational beauty aesthetics of a sample of 20 urban Korean women between the…
K-pop idols, artificial beauty and affective fan relationships in South Korea
This chapter discusses the K-pop celebrity idol and parasocial interaction between idols and fans, concentrating specifically on the position of the idol as a 'parasocial kin' in contemporary South Korean society. It shows that the position that the celebrity occupies in the contemporary Korean mediascape makes them an object of both consumption and parasocial interaction in ways that construct the celebrity as an imagined 'parasocial kin'. The c…
Deracializing Asian Australia? Cosmetic surgery and the question of race in Australian television
This paper examines the ways in which the discourse of ‘deracialization’ is consistently used in Australian media to posit the surgically modified Asian–Australian body as a site of national concern and anxiety. Through close readings of two major Australian factual television programmes on the topic of race and cosmetic surgery, we show how this discourse is deployed to uphold a form of somatic multiculturalism that continues to centre whiteness…
Old, down and out? Appearance, body work and positive ageing among elderly South Korean women
Disaster Narratives in the South Korean Cultural Imaginary
Cosmetic Surgery and Embodying the Moral Self in South Korean Popular Makeover Culture
You only have to spend a day in Seoul to realize that appearances do matter in contemporary South Korean society. Advertisements for various cosmetic surgeries are conspicuous everywhere-from taxis (fig. 1) to public transport and underground stations (figs. 2 and 3), all evidence that the industry is booming
Gender, Globalization and Aesthetic Surgery in South Korea
This article explores the unusually high levels of cosmetic surgery in South Korea - for both women and men. We argue that existing explanations, which draw on feminist and postcolonial positions, presenting cosmetic surgery as pertinent only to female and non-western bodies found lacking by patriarchal and racist/imperialist economies, miss important cultural influences. In particular, focus on western cultural hegemony misses the influence in K…
Representations of Femininity in Contemporary South Korean Women's Literature
This book discusses perceptions of 'femininity' in contemporary South Korea and the extent to which fictional representations in South Korean women's fiction of the 1990s challenges the enduring association of the feminine with domesticity, docility and passivity. While existing literature addresses Korean women's legal, educational, political and employment issues, this study is the first to analyse the cultural values that define femininity in …
Gender, Globalization and Aesthetic Surgery in South Korea
This article explores the unusually high levels of cosmetic surgery in South Korea - for both women and men. We argue that existing explanations, which draw on feminist and postcolonial positions, presenting cosmetic surgery as pertinent only to female and non-western bodies found lacking by patriarchal and racist/imperialist economies, miss important cultural influences. In particular, focus on western cultural hegemony misses the influence in K…
Old, down and out? Appearance, body work and positive ageing among elderly South Korean women
Media, Cosmetic Surgery and Aspirational Beauty Aesthetics of the Ageing Body in South Korea
This article examines how thinking about technologies of the body and beauty outside mainstream youth-focussed discourses complicates prevalent media arguments that posit aesthetic preferences in South Korean society as primarily driven by a desire to radically alter or to “Westernise” Korean bodies. This article draws on in-depth qualitative interview data, examining aspirational beauty aesthetics of a sample of 20 urban Korean women between the…
Man Made Beautiful: The Social Role of Grooming and Body Work in Performing Middle-aged Corporate Masculinity in South Korea
This article examines how middle-aged urban men in South Korea relate to age-relevant ideas of beauty in a society in which youthful muscular bodies are increasingly presented as the ideal or, arguably, even as a norm. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 13 male participants aged 36-56 years residing in the Seoul metropolitan area, it seeks to outline what role grooming and aesthetic labor play in their everyday social interactions. The findings …
Deracializing Asian Australia? Cosmetic surgery and the question of race in Australian television
This paper examines the ways in which the discourse of ‘deracialization’ is consistently used in Australian media to posit the surgically modified Asian–Australian body as a site of national concern and anxiety. Through close readings of two major Australian factual television programmes on the topic of race and cosmetic surgery, we show how this discourse is deployed to uphold a form of somatic multiculturalism that continues to centre whiteness…
Cosmetic Surgery and Embodying the Moral Self in South Korean Popular Makeover Culture
You only have to spend a day in Seoul to realize that appearances do matter in contemporary South Korean society. Advertisements for various cosmetic surgeries are conspicuous everywhere-from taxis (fig. 1) to public transport and underground stations (figs. 2 and 3), all evidence that the industry is booming
Representations of Femininity in Contemporary South Korean Women's Literature
This book discusses perceptions of 'femininity' in contemporary South Korea and the extent to which fictional representations in South Korean women's fiction of the 1990s challenges the enduring association of the feminine with domesticity, docility and passivity. While existing literature addresses Korean women's legal, educational, political and employment issues, this study is the first to analyse the cultural values that define femininity in …
Gender, Globalization and Aesthetic Surgery in South Korea
This article explores the unusually high levels of cosmetic surgery in South Korea - for both women and men. We argue that existing explanations, which draw on feminist and postcolonial positions, presenting cosmetic surgery as pertinent only to female and non-western bodies found lacking by patriarchal and racist/imperialist economies, miss important cultural influences. In particular, focus on western cultural hegemony misses the influence in K…
Cosmetic Surgery and Embodying the Moral Self in South Korean Popular Makeover Culture
You only have to spend a day in Seoul to realize that appearances do matter in contemporary South Korean society. Advertisements for various cosmetic surgeries are conspicuous everywhere-from taxis (fig. 1) to public transport and underground stations (figs. 2 and 3), all evidence that the industry is booming
Disaster Narratives in the South Korean Cultural Imaginary
Deracializing Asian Australia? Cosmetic surgery and the question of race in Australian television
This paper examines the ways in which the discourse of ‘deracialization’ is consistently used in Australian media to posit the surgically modified Asian–Australian body as a site of national concern and anxiety. Through close readings of two major Australian factual television programmes on the topic of race and cosmetic surgery, we show how this discourse is deployed to uphold a form of somatic multiculturalism that continues to centre whiteness…
Old, down and out? Appearance, body work and positive ageing among elderly South Korean women
K-pop idols, artificial beauty and affective fan relationships in South Korea
This chapter discusses the K-pop celebrity idol and parasocial interaction between idols and fans, concentrating specifically on the position of the idol as a 'parasocial kin' in contemporary South Korean society. It shows that the position that the celebrity occupies in the contemporary Korean mediascape makes them an object of both consumption and parasocial interaction in ways that construct the celebrity as an imagined 'parasocial kin'. The c…
Media, Cosmetic Surgery and Aspirational Beauty Aesthetics of the Ageing Body in South Korea
This article examines how thinking about technologies of the body and beauty outside mainstream youth-focussed discourses complicates prevalent media arguments that posit aesthetic preferences in South Korean society as primarily driven by a desire to radically alter or to “Westernise” Korean bodies. This article draws on in-depth qualitative interview data, examining aspirational beauty aesthetics of a sample of 20 urban Korean women between the…
Man Made Beautiful: The Social Role of Grooming and Body Work in Performing Middle-aged Corporate Masculinity in South Korea
This article examines how middle-aged urban men in South Korea relate to age-relevant ideas of beauty in a society in which youthful muscular bodies are increasingly presented as the ideal or, arguably, even as a norm. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 13 male participants aged 36-56 years residing in the Seoul metropolitan area, it seeks to outline what role grooming and aesthetic labor play in their everyday social interactions. The findings …
Why aid diplomacy eventually pays off: Lessons from Australia’s Sheep Demonstration Farm Project in 1970s South Korea
When two Kelpie sheepdogs and the first consignment of 2,500 Australian sheep arrived in a remote Korean village of Unbong in the summer of 1972, few would have imagined it would lay the foundations for one of the most successful yet forgotten episodes in Australian aid diplomacy. Our research on a hitherto unresearched history of Republic of Korea-Australia foreign aid engagement in the 1970s has found that relatively small projects which focus …
“My wife made me”: Motivations for body and beauty work among older Korean and Chinese migrant adults in Australia
This article examines how older Korean and Chinese migrants living in Perth, Australia, engage in various beauty, grooming and fitness practices to negotiate "successful ageing" in transnational contexts. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 30 men and women aged between 60 and 89, we examine what social meanings are attached to these practices, and how the transnational context of living in Australia has influenced the participants' percep…
Aesthetics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Beauty (5 works) · Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies (4 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)