Jong Bum Kwon
Biographic Data
| ID | 91825 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jong Bum Kwon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jong Bum |
| FAMILY NAME | Kwon |
| SIGNATURE | KWON J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Global Languages, Cultures and Societies Webster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2199-0739 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mothers' Hopes and Domestic Magic
This article is a collaborative ethnographic examination of the formation of white, middle-class, suburban mothers' subjectivities and mothers' roles in the reproduction of racial inequity and structural violence. We focus on their affective labors transforming home spaces and suburban landscapes into white fantasies of childhood, which we describe as kind of domestic magic. We argue at the heart of this white racial habitus is the figure of the …
Paradoxes of white moral experience
Protesters at Canfield Green Apartments in Ferguson, August 14, 2014. (Lindy Drew) Racism is an evil, a willful lie, and simply immoral. Eva wrote this to me in an email the day after our second conversation.1 Eva is one of many white mothers who volunteered to speak with me about their growing understanding and experience of their whiteness. I met her through a program aimed at raising racial awareness among white people; I was following a few s…
Troubling whiteness
Protest at Keiner Plaza, downtown St. Louis, November 25, 2014. (Lindy Drew) High in the tower, where I sit above the loud complaining of the human sea, I know many souls that toss and whirl and pass, but none there are that intrigue me more than the Souls of White Folk. Perhaps at no other time in modern American history have white people been more fascinated (and anxiety-ridden) about their own whiteness. President Obama's election in 2008 appe…
Crime seen
Lezley McSpadden, Brown's mother, outside the crime scene as her son's dead body lay in the street, Ferguson, August 9, 2014. (Screenshot, "A Look Back at the Events after Michael Brown's Death," FOX 2 St. Louis, uploaded August 7, 2019, 5:04, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a86DHJGwi7U) They shot big Mike Mike. I saw him dead in the street. Saturday, August 9, 2014, at about noon, in Ferguson, Missouri: white police officer Darren Wilson shot Mi…
Anthropologies of Unemployment
Anthropologies of Unemployment offers accessible, theoretically innovative, and ethnographically rich examinations of unemployment in rural and urban regions across North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Severed in neoliberal South Korea
Unemployment hurts. Based on fieldwork with laid-off Daewoo autoworkers in South Korea in the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis (1997-2001), a tumultuous transitional period from the developmental state to post-Fordist neoliberal economy, I explore their experience and interpretation of bodily pain and suffering. The term they used is severed which while idiomatic, suggests actual corporeal violence. Pivoting around the analysis of cho ̆ngd…
Forging a Modern Democratic Imaginary
This article examines the formation of “Neo-Korea” —the constitution of the social and political imaginary of the present as a radical break from the dark past. Democracy and neoliberalism, dominant imaginaries of contemporary Korea, required forgetting. This article shows how new tactics of policing protest initiated in 2000, in the still-churning wake of the financial crisis, actively reprogrammed social memory, dramatizing a Korea of democracy…
Paradoxes of white moral experience
Protesters at Canfield Green Apartments in Ferguson, August 14, 2014. (Lindy Drew) Racism is an evil, a willful lie, and simply immoral. Eva wrote this to me in an email the day after our second conversation.1 Eva is one of many white mothers who volunteered to speak with me about their growing understanding and experience of their whiteness. I met her through a program aimed at raising racial awareness among white people; I was following a few s…
Crime seen
Lezley McSpadden, Brown's mother, outside the crime scene as her son's dead body lay in the street, Ferguson, August 9, 2014. (Screenshot, "A Look Back at the Events after Michael Brown's Death," FOX 2 St. Louis, uploaded August 7, 2019, 5:04, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a86DHJGwi7U) They shot big Mike Mike. I saw him dead in the street. Saturday, August 9, 2014, at about noon, in Ferguson, Missouri: white police officer Darren Wilson shot Mi…
Severed in neoliberal South Korea
Unemployment hurts. Based on fieldwork with laid-off Daewoo autoworkers in South Korea in the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis (1997-2001), a tumultuous transitional period from the developmental state to post-Fordist neoliberal economy, I explore their experience and interpretation of bodily pain and suffering. The term they used is severed which while idiomatic, suggests actual corporeal violence. Pivoting around the analysis of cho ̆ngd…
Mothers' Hopes and Domestic Magic
This article is a collaborative ethnographic examination of the formation of white, middle-class, suburban mothers' subjectivities and mothers' roles in the reproduction of racial inequity and structural violence. We focus on their affective labors transforming home spaces and suburban landscapes into white fantasies of childhood, which we describe as kind of domestic magic. We argue at the heart of this white racial habitus is the figure of the …
Forging a Modern Democratic Imaginary
This article examines the formation of “Neo-Korea” —the constitution of the social and political imaginary of the present as a radical break from the dark past. Democracy and neoliberalism, dominant imaginaries of contemporary Korea, required forgetting. This article shows how new tactics of policing protest initiated in 2000, in the still-churning wake of the financial crisis, actively reprogrammed social memory, dramatizing a Korea of democracy…
Troubling whiteness
Protest at Keiner Plaza, downtown St. Louis, November 25, 2014. (Lindy Drew) High in the tower, where I sit above the loud complaining of the human sea, I know many souls that toss and whirl and pass, but none there are that intrigue me more than the Souls of White Folk. Perhaps at no other time in modern American history have white people been more fascinated (and anxiety-ridden) about their own whiteness. President Obama's election in 2008 appe…
Forging a Modern Democratic Imaginary
This article examines the formation of “Neo-Korea” —the constitution of the social and political imaginary of the present as a radical break from the dark past. Democracy and neoliberalism, dominant imaginaries of contemporary Korea, required forgetting. This article shows how new tactics of policing protest initiated in 2000, in the still-churning wake of the financial crisis, actively reprogrammed social memory, dramatizing a Korea of democracy…
Severed in neoliberal South Korea
Unemployment hurts. Based on fieldwork with laid-off Daewoo autoworkers in South Korea in the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis (1997-2001), a tumultuous transitional period from the developmental state to post-Fordist neoliberal economy, I explore their experience and interpretation of bodily pain and suffering. The term they used is severed which while idiomatic, suggests actual corporeal violence. Pivoting around the analysis of cho ̆ngd…
Anthropologies of Unemployment
Anthropologies of Unemployment offers accessible, theoretically innovative, and ethnographically rich examinations of unemployment in rural and urban regions across North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Paradoxes of white moral experience
Protesters at Canfield Green Apartments in Ferguson, August 14, 2014. (Lindy Drew) Racism is an evil, a willful lie, and simply immoral. Eva wrote this to me in an email the day after our second conversation.1 Eva is one of many white mothers who volunteered to speak with me about their growing understanding and experience of their whiteness. I met her through a program aimed at raising racial awareness among white people; I was following a few s…
Troubling whiteness
Protest at Keiner Plaza, downtown St. Louis, November 25, 2014. (Lindy Drew) High in the tower, where I sit above the loud complaining of the human sea, I know many souls that toss and whirl and pass, but none there are that intrigue me more than the Souls of White Folk. Perhaps at no other time in modern American history have white people been more fascinated (and anxiety-ridden) about their own whiteness. President Obama's election in 2008 appe…
Crime seen
Lezley McSpadden, Brown's mother, outside the crime scene as her son's dead body lay in the street, Ferguson, August 9, 2014. (Screenshot, "A Look Back at the Events after Michael Brown's Death," FOX 2 St. Louis, uploaded August 7, 2019, 5:04, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a86DHJGwi7U) They shot big Mike Mike. I saw him dead in the street. Saturday, August 9, 2014, at about noon, in Ferguson, Missouri: white police officer Darren Wilson shot Mi…
Mothers' Hopes and Domestic Magic
This article is a collaborative ethnographic examination of the formation of white, middle-class, suburban mothers' subjectivities and mothers' roles in the reproduction of racial inequity and structural violence. We focus on their affective labors transforming home spaces and suburban landscapes into white fantasies of childhood, which we describe as kind of domestic magic. We argue at the heart of this white racial habitus is the figure of the …
Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · State (computer science (3 works)