New Millennium South Korea

Jesook Song is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. As an anthropologist of Korea and a gender studies scholar, her interests include liberal governmentality, financialization, and youth education.

• Introduction: Why Korea in the New Millennium? Part I: Economic and Sociological Accounts 1. Globalization and Social Inequality in South Korea 2. Neoliberalism, the Financial Crisis and Economic Restructuring in Korea 3. Neoliberalism in South Korea: The Dynamics of Financialization Part II: Ethnographic and Historical Accounts 4. Contesting Legal Liminality: The Gendered Labor Politics of Irregular Workers in South Korea 5. The Will to Self-Managing, the Will to Freedom: The Self-managing Ethic and the Spirit of Flexible Capitalism in South Korea 6. Educational Manager Mothers As Neoliberal Maternal Subjects 7. For the Rights of "Colonial Returnees": Korean Chinese, Decolonization and Neoliberal Democracy in South Korea 8. "Not-Quite Korean" Children in "Almost Korean" Families: The Fear of Decreasing Population and State Multiculturalism in South Korea 9. "If you don’t work, you don’t eat": Evangelizing Development in Africa

Select Guide Rating