The Other Cold War - Couverture rigide

Kwon, Heonik

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 023115304X ISBN 13 : 9780231153041

Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2010

Synopsis

In this conceptually bold project, Heonik Kwon uses anthropology to interrogate the cold war's cultural and historical narratives. Adopting a truly panoramic view of local politics and international events, he challenges the notion that the cold war was a global struggle fought uniformly around the world and that the end of the war marked a radical, universal rupture in modern history.

Incorporating comparative ethnographic study into a thorough analysis of the period, Kwon upends cherished ideas about the global and their hold on contemporary social science. His narrative describes the slow decomposition of a complex social and political order involving a number of local and culturally creative processes. While the nations of Europe and North America experienced the cold war as a time of "long peace," postcolonial nations entered a different reality altogether, characterized by vicious civil wars and other exceptional forms of violence. Arguing that these events should be integrated into any account of the era, Kwon captures the first sociocultural portrait of the cold war in all its subtlety and diversity.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Heonik Kwon is reader in anthropology at the London School of Economics and previously taught at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Ghosts of War in Vietnam and After the Massacre: Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Columbia University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 023115304X
• ISBN 13: 9780231153041
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 211
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