The Melodrama of Mobility
Women, Talk, and Class in Contemporary South Korea
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7533014 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nancy Abelmann (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 344 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-18 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Melodrama of Mobility (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Hawaii Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9780824864859 |
| OpenAlex | W615577863 |
| Open Library | OL29357731M |
| ISBN | 9780824864859 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 66 |
| References cited | 1 |
Through the lives and narratives of eight women, The Melodrama of Mobility chronicles South Korea's experience of dizzyingly rapid development. Nancy Abelmann captures the mood, feeling, and language of a generation and an era while providing a rare window on the personal and social struggles of South Korean modernity. Drawing also from television soap operas and films, she argues that a melodramatic sensibility speaks to South Korea's transformation because it preserves the tension and ambivalence of daily life in unsettled times
Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Art · Feeling · Literature · Modernity · Narrative · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Sensibility · Sociology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Cinema and Media Studies · Gender Studies · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Economic conditions · Employment · Korea · Middle-aged women · Social classes · Social conditions · Social mobility · Women
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Girls’ Generation? Gender, (Dis)Empowerment, and K-pop
South Korean Advertising as Popular Culture
As Seen on the Internet
It All Started with a Bang
Compressed Modernity in South Korea
The Global Hansik Campaign and the Commodification of Korean Cuisine
Introduction
The Popularity of Individualism
Border Children
Negotiating a Korean National Myth
Encore
Shifting Agencies through New Media
Think rich, feel hurt
K-Drama 2.0
Something Old … Remembering Korean Wedding Hall Photographs from the 1980s
In Defiance of School Education
Divergent Paths toward Militarized Citizenship
In Sickness and in Love? Autumn in My Heart and the Embodiment of Morality in Korean Television Drama
In Liberation Village
Evidentiality and morality in a Korean heritage language school
Educational aspirations on the move
Dual Consciousness, Social Mobility, and the Experiences of Middle-Income African Americans in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Loser” aesthetics
Politicizing youth in South Korea – the role of Seoul’s educational institutions
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The Limits of Family
Precarious Seoul
Labor Games
Eros and Modernity
A room of one's own’
Remembering Sacrifices
Female individualization
Sewing their way up the social ladder? Paths to social mobility and empowerment among Sri Lanka’s global factory workers
Transnational migration and gender capital
Speculative homemaking
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Like Audrey
Nancy Abelmann
Class and Cosmopolitan Striving
Embodied Narrative Inquiry
Basic Kinship Terms
Of hungry ghosts and other matters of consumption in the Republic of Korea
Core and Peripheral Features of the Cross-Cultural Model of Romantic Love
Decompressing Modernity
The Changing Faces of Inequality in South Korea in the Age of Globalization
Wedding Citizenship and Culture
Why Social Relations Matter for Politics and Successful Societies
Negotiating Patriarchy
Governing the middle-class family in urban China
Doing being middle-class in the global South
Neo-liberalism in post-crisis South Korea
Introduction
Crossing Boundaries
KirŏgiFamilies in the US
The contradictory effects of South Korean resettlement policy on North Koreans in South Korea
Viral Entanglements
The Male Malady of Globalization
I heard a dog cry
Goddess with a Picasso face
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Cancer, Stress, and Ironies of Cancer Understanding in South Korea
| Unique citing works | 66 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,87 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 65 |