BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.4//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Central Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Central Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Central Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Jong Bum Kwon\, Webster University\nIt’s bee n two decades since the disastrous Asian financial crisis\; it’s been two decades since the dismantling of South Korea’s authoritarian\, Fordist dev elopmental regime. The ensuing decades have been broadly characterized as neoliberal\, precarious\, and compressed\, as scholars have sought to capt ure the celerity and welter of social-cultural change related to stark eco nomic inequality\, casualization of employment\, and deepened global conne ction. Much of the recent anthropological attention has focused on the bro ad category of youth (as emergent generations of loss)\, documenting the p roduction of new subjectivities through their navigation of heightened com petition\, foreclosed social mobility\, and illusory promises of global co smopolitanism. This presentation aims to shift attention back to an earlie r “lost generation” – predominantly male\, industrial workers\, who (as I have argued elsewhere) have become anachronisms in both public and scholar ly imaginaries. \nDrawing upon recent anthropological thinking on post-For dist affect and precarity I examine the particular articulations of loss\, longing\, and “cruel optimism” (Berlant 2011) shared by Korea’s new primi tives. My aim is to contribute to a comparative understanding of the effec ts and affects of deindustrialization\, shedding light on non-Western expe riences\, to develop a more complex consideration of Korean working class masculinities and highlight native Korean affective cultural forms. My pre sentation\, then\, explores under-studied dimensions of Korea’s neoliberal turn\, emphasizing not the production of new subjectivities but strained attachments to the past.\nCost: Free\nContact: Alex Lee\n217-372-1673\nlee 828@illinois.edu\nSponsor: Center for East Asian &\; Pacific Studies\nR EGISTER DTEND:20180406T183000Z DTSTAMP:20261006T113753Z DTSTART:20180406T170000Z LOCATION:IL\,USA\,Champaign\,1080 Foreign Languages Building\, Lucy Ellis L ounge (707 S. Mathews Ave.\, Urbana) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Homeless\, Abandoned: Affective Lives in Post-industrial South Kore a With Dr. Jong Bum Kwon UID:RFCALITEM639268654731477138 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Speaker: Professor Jong Bum Kwon\, Webster Universit y

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It’s been two decades since the disastrous Asian financial crisi s\; it’s been two decades since the dismantling of South Korea’s authorita rian\, Fordist developmental regime. The ensuing decades have been broadly characterized as neoliberal\, precarious\, and compressed\, as scholars h ave sought to capture the celerity and welter of social-cultural change re lated to stark economic inequality\, casualization of employment\, and dee pened global connection. Much of the recent anthropological attention has focused on the broad category of youth (as emergent generations of loss)\, documenting the production of new subjectivities through their navigation of heightened competition\, foreclosed social mobility\, and illusory pro mises of global cosmopolitanism. This presentation aims to shift attention back to an earlier “lost generation” – predominantly male\, industrial wo rkers\, who (as I have argued elsewhere) have become anachronisms in both public and scholarly imaginaries.

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Drawing upon recent anthropolog ical thinking on post-Fordist affect and precarity I examine the particula r articulations of loss\, longing\, and “cruel optimism” (Berlant 2011) sh ared by Korea’s new primitives. My aim is to contribute to a comparative u nderstanding of the effects and affects of deindustrialization\, shedding light on non-Western experiences\, to develop a more complex consideration of Korean working class masculinities and highlight native Korean affecti ve cultural forms. My presentation\, then\, explores under-studied dimensi ons of Korea’s neoliberal turn\, emphasizing not the production of new sub jectivities but strained attachments to the past.

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Cost: Free

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Contact: Alex Lee
\n217-372-16 73
\nlee828@illinois.edu

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