Living on Your Own: Single Women, Rental Housing, and Post-Revolutionary Affect in Contemporary South Korea - Couverture souple

Song, Jesook

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1438450125 ISBN 13 : 9781438450124

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2015

Synopsis

An ethnography of young, single women struggling to live independently in South Korea.

Living on Your Own is an ethnography of young, single women in South Korea who seek to live independently. Using extensive interviews, along with media analysis and archival research, Jesook Song traces the women’s difficulties in achieving residential autonomy. Song exposes the clash between the women’s burgeoning desire for independent lives and the ongoing incursion of traditional, conservative family ideology and marriage pressure into housing practices and financial institutions. She pays particular attention to the Korean rent system and the reliance on lump-sum cash even for basic subsistence, which promotes tight control of young adults’ lives by family and kinship networks. The young women whose voices feature prominently in this book are a prototype of global youth in crisis: caught between aspirations for the self-development and flexible lifestyle championed by globalizing media and communication technology and the reality of their position as flexible labor in a neoliberal economy.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jesook Song is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. She is the author of South Koreans in the Debt Crisis: The Creation of a Neoliberal Welfare Society and the editor of New Millennium South Korea: Neoliberal Capitalism and Tr

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1438450125
• ISBN 13: 9781438450124
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 164
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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