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- catalog abstract ""Past scholarship on the culture of nationalism has largely focused on the ways in which institutions utilize memory and "history" to construct national identity. Laura C. Nelson challenges these assumptions with regard to South Korea, arguing that its identity has been as much tied to notions of the future as rooted in a recollection of the past. Measured Excess offers an analysis of the ways in which South Korean economic development strategies have reshaped the country's national identity - giving specific attention to the manner in which women, as the primary agents of consumption, have been affected by this transformation." "Following a backlash against consumerism in the late 1980s, the government spearheaded a program of frugality that eschewed imported goods and foreign travel in favor of strengthening South Korea's national identity. Consumption - with its focus on immediate gratification - threatened those future-oriented aspects of the state's discourse of national unity. In response to this perceived danger, Nelson asserts, the government cast women as the group whose "excessive desires" for material goods were endangering the nation."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Status, gender, and consumer nationalism in South Korea".
- catalog contributor b11942872.
- catalog coverage "Korea (South) Economic policy.".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""Past scholarship on the culture of nationalism has largely focused on the ways in which institutions utilize memory and "history" to construct national identity. Laura C. Nelson challenges these assumptions with regard to South Korea, arguing that its identity has been as much tied to notions of the future as rooted in a recollection of the past. Measured Excess offers an analysis of the ways in which South Korean economic development strategies have reshaped the country's national identity - giving specific attention to the manner in which women, as the primary agents of consumption, have been affected by this transformation." "Following a backlash against consumerism in the late 1980s, the government spearheaded a program of frugality that eschewed imported goods and foreign travel in favor of strengthening South Korea's national identity. Consumption - with its focus on immediate gratification - threatened those future-oriented aspects of the state's discourse of national unity. In response to this perceived danger, Nelson asserts, the government cast women as the group whose "excessive desires" for material goods were endangering the nation."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Consumer Nationalism. First Vignette: 1992 --- 2. "Seoul to The World, The World to Seoul''. Second Vignette: 1985 --- 3. Producing New Consumption. Third Vignette: 1991--- 4. "Kwasobi Ch'ubang": Measuring Excess. Fourth Vignette: 1993--- 5. Endangering the Nation, Consuming the Future. Fifth Vignette: 1991--- 6. Coda.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-233) and index.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 246 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0231116160 (cloth)".
- catalog identifier "0231116179 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Columbia University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Korea (South) Economic policy.".
- catalog spatial "Korea (South)".
- catalog subject "339.4/7/095195 21".
- catalog subject "Consumption (Economics) Korea (South)".
- catalog subject "HC470.C6 N45 2000".
- catalog subject "Women consumers Korea (South)".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Consumer Nationalism. First Vignette: 1992 --- 2. "Seoul to The World, The World to Seoul''. Second Vignette: 1985 --- 3. Producing New Consumption. Third Vignette: 1991--- 4. "Kwasobi Ch'ubang": Measuring Excess. Fourth Vignette: 1993--- 5. Endangering the Nation, Consuming the Future. Fifth Vignette: 1991--- 6. Coda.".
- catalog title "Measured excess : status, gender, and consumer nationalism in South Korea / Laura C. Nelson.".
- catalog title "Status, gender, and consumer nationalism in South Korea".
- catalog type "text".