After the Korean War
An Intimate History

The first comprehensive analysis of the Korean War and its enduring legacies through the lenses of intimate human and social experience.

Heonik Kwon (Author)

9781108487924, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 16 April 2020

246 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 1.5 cm, 0.47 kg

'… After the Korean War stands as one of the most innovative treatments of the Korean War to appear in recent years … It is Kwon's capacity to look at the Korean War in a way that also sheds light on some of the other horrors of the modern era that makes his work such a compelling and valuable contribution.' Gregg A. Brazinsky, Acta Koreana

Following his prizewinning studies of the Vietnam War, renowned anthropologist Heonik Kwon presents this ground-breaking study of the Korean War's enduring legacies seen through the realm of intimate human experience. Kwon boldly reclaims kinship as a vital category in historical and political enquiry and probes the grey zone between the modern and the traditional (and between the civil and the social) in the lived reality of Korea's civil war and the Cold War more broadly. With captivating historical detail and innovative conceptual frames, Kwon's moving, creative analysis provides fresh insights into the Korean conflict, civil war and reconciliation, history and memory and critical political theory.

Introduction
1. Massacres in Korea
2. Bad gemeinschaft
3. Peace in the feud
4. Guilt by association
5. Morality and ideology
6. The quiet revolution
Conclusion.

Subject Areas: Social & cultural history [HBTB], 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW], Asian history [HBJF]