Capitalist Unconscious
Subtitle: From Korean Unification to Transnational Korea
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780231171922
Subjects: Capitalism; Socialism; Korean reunification question (1945-); Korea, social conditions
Description: The unification of North and South Korea is widely considered an unresolved and volatile matter for the global order, but this book argues capital has already unified Korea in a transnational form. As Hyun Ok Park demonstrates, rather than territorial integration and family union, the capitalist unconscious drives the current unification, imagining the capitalist integration of the Korean peninsula and the Korean diaspora as a new democratic moment.