Measured Excess

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Status, Gender, and Consumer Nationalism in South Korea

Laura C. Nelson

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English

Columbia University Press
06 December 2000

Consumerism; Social classes; Gender studies, gender groups; Nationalism

This insightful analysis of the ways in which South Korean economic development strategies have reshaped the country's national identity gives specific attention to the manner in which women, as the primary agents of consumption, have been affected by this transformation. Past scholarship on the culture of nationalism has largely focused on the ways in which institutions utilize memory and ""history"" to construct national identity. In a provocative departure, 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.

Following a backlash against consumerism in the late 1980s, the government spearheaded a program of frugality that eschewed imported goods and foreign travel in order to strengthen South Korea's national identity. Consumption-with its focus on immediate gratification-threatened the state's future-oriented 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.

By: Laura C. Nelson
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 368g
ISBN: 9780231116176
ISBN 10: 0231116179
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 06 December 2000
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Laura C. Nelson is an associate at MDRC, a nonprofit research organization, where she currently focuses on poverty, employment, and social policy in the United States.

Reviews for Measured Excess: Status, Gender, and Consumer Nationalism in South Korea

Provides an insightful analysis of the ambivalent attitude of the residents of Seoul to South Korea's growing material prosperity through the decades of the 1980s and 1990s. Journal of Asian Studies Nelson's eloquent writing style allows the rare pleasure of readfing social science research that comes through factually as well as emotionally... highly recommended. Gender & Society An insightful analysis of the ways in which South Korean economic development strategies have reshaped the country's national identity. -- Mikyeong Bae Acta Koreana Vol. 6.1.2003