Alek Sigley
Biographic Data
| ID | 906362 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alek Sigley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alek |
| FAMILY NAME | Sigley |
| SIGNATURE | SIGLEY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanley Foundation |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2031-2821 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Life behind a mosquito net
North Korea-based foreign students enjoy unique circumstances as long-term foreign residents of Pyongyang. In contrast to short-term outside visitors such as international tourists, they partake in freedoms and privileges that the xenophobic North Korean state seldom grants to foreigners, such as the ability to walk the streets of Pyongyang unaccompanied. They also interact extensively with local Koreans such as the North Korean students who live…
Sojourn in Paradise
North Korea is well-known for the intense social control it imposes upon its citizens and foreign visitors. This social control serves to circumscribe interactions between the two groups, limit the flow of information in either direction which may be detrimental to North Korea’s propaganda narrative, and maintain North Korea’s isolation from the outside world. Foreign students in Pyongyang are not exempt from such social control. However, they ar…
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Sojourn in Paradise
North Korea is well-known for the intense social control it imposes upon its citizens and foreign visitors. This social control serves to circumscribe interactions between the two groups, limit the flow of information in either direction which may be detrimental to North Korea’s propaganda narrative, and maintain North Korea’s isolation from the outside world. Foreign students in Pyongyang are not exempt from such social control. However, they ar…
Life behind a mosquito net
North Korea-based foreign students enjoy unique circumstances as long-term foreign residents of Pyongyang. In contrast to short-term outside visitors such as international tourists, they partake in freedoms and privileges that the xenophobic North Korean state seldom grants to foreigners, such as the ability to walk the streets of Pyongyang unaccompanied. They also interact extensively with local Koreans such as the North Korean students who live…
Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Agency (philosophy) (1 work) · Control (management) (1 work) · Geography (1 work) · History (1 work) · Isolation (microbiology) (1 work) · Law (1 work) · Management (1 work)