"Everyday Politics" in North Korea
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3629985 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Changyong Choi (0000-0002-9158-4333), Chang‐yong Choi (0000-0002-4519-7957, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 655-673 |
| Publication date | 2013-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021911813000545 |
| OpenAlex | W2117873018 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 20 |
This article examines daily life in North Korea from the perspectives of recent North Korean defectors from a variety of social backgrounds. The following three questions are explored: how does the individual live from day to day; what tactics does one continuously evolve in order to survive; and, most importantly, what theoretical and methodological frameworks are available to explain the strategies for survival employed by the country's population? Employing the concept of "everyday politics," this study argues that state-society interactions once constrained by a highly centralized regime, characterized by an emphasis on political and moral motivations, have yielded to more fragmented and autonomous systems strengthened by realization of individual self-interest. In the process, the state and society have reshaped patterns of interaction regarding information flow structures, rules of behavior, and motivations. That is, both the state and society seek coexistence, and the "market" spontaneously developed by the population functions as a shock absorber
Economic system · Economics · Everyday life · Order (exchange) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Positive economics · Realization (probability) · Shock (circulatory) · Sociology · State (computer science) · Variety (cybernetics) · Computer Science · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies · Law
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Evaluating Everyday Politics in North Korea
Collective Memory and Everyday Politics in North Korea
Everyday Bribery in North Korea as Moral Economy
North Korea’s Shadow Economy
Everyday Authoritarianism in North Korea
A cultural neuroscience perspective on North Korean strategic culture
State, Society and Markets in North Korea
What autocracies say (and what citizens hear)
Tourism as political theatre in North Korea
The Socialist System
The theory of communicative action
On Human Beings and their Emotions
Domination and the Arts of Resistance
Making Sense of North Korea
The socialist system
A Semantic Network Analysis of Changes in North Korea's Economic Policy
Making sense of North Korea
What the Change of System From Socialism to Capitalism Does and Does Not Mean
Power, Civil Society, and an Inchoate Politics of the Daily in Burma/Myanmar
The Cultural Cold War in Korea, 1945-1950
The Politics of Everyday Life in Twenty-First Century Myanmar
Trends in the Study of North Korea
North Korean Perceptions of Self and Others
Marx and Mead
Marx and Mead
Theories of Everyday Life
Critical Reflexivity, Contradictions and Modern Cuban Consciousness
The decline of communist power
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2024 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |