Visual Politics and North Korea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Visual Politics and North Korea write by David Shim. This book was released on 2013-10-15. Visual Politics and North Korea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the realm of international relations, there are seemingly few states like North Korea. Whether it is the country’s human rights situation, its precarious everyday life or its so-called foreign policy of coercion and nuclear brinkmanship, no matter what this ‘pariah’ nation says and does it affects the state and stability of regional and global politics. But what do we know about North Korea and how do we come to know it? This book argues that visual imagery plays a decisive role in this operation. By discussing two exemplary areas – everyday photography and satellite imagery – the book takes into account the role of images in the way that particular issues related to North Korea are understood in contemporary geopolitics. Images work. They do something by evoking a particular perspective of what is shown in them, allowing only specific ways of seeing and knowing. In this sense, images are deeply political. Individual methodological usages in the book can provide a procedural basis from which to start or rethink further studies on visuality, both in IR and beyond. It also opens an innovative path for future studies on East Asia, making the book attractive to a range of specialists and thus holding an appeal beyond the boundaries of a single discipline.
Art Under Control in North Korea
Art Under Control in North Korea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Art Under Control in North Korea write by Jane Portal. This book was released on 2005-08-15. Art Under Control in North Korea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Art Under Control in North Korea is the first publication in the West to explore the role of art in one of the world's most isolated nations. This timely publication places North Korean art in its historical, political and social contexts, discusses the state system of producing, employing, promoting and honouring artists, and examines the range of art produced, from painting and calligraphy to architecture and applied art. Jane Portal also compares the control exerted over artists by North Korean leaders to that of other absolute dictatorships, and looks at the way in which archaeology has been employed for political ends to justify the present leadership and its lineage."--BOOK JACKET.
Visual Politics and North Korea
Visual Politics and North Korea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Visual Politics and North Korea write by David Shim. This book was released on 2013-10-15. Visual Politics and North Korea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the realm of international relations, there are seemingly few states like North Korea. Whether it is the country’s human rights situation, its precarious everyday life or its so-called foreign policy of coercion and nuclear brinkmanship, no matter what this ‘pariah’ nation says and does it affects the state and stability of regional and global politics. But what do we know about North Korea and how do we come to know it? This book argues that visual imagery plays a decisive role in this operation. By discussing two exemplary areas – everyday photography and satellite imagery – the book takes into account the role of images in the way that particular issues related to North Korea are understood in contemporary geopolitics. Images work. They do something by evoking a particular perspective of what is shown in them, allowing only specific ways of seeing and knowing. In this sense, images are deeply political. Individual methodological usages in the book can provide a procedural basis from which to start or rethink further studies on visuality, both in IR and beyond. It also opens an innovative path for future studies on East Asia, making the book attractive to a range of specialists and thus holding an appeal beyond the boundaries of a single discipline.
North Korea
North Korea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook North Korea write by Heonik Kwon. This book was released on 2012-03-12. North Korea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This timely, pathbreaking study of North Korea’s political history and culture sheds invaluable light on the country’s unique leadership continuity and succession. Leading scholars Heonik Kwon and Byung-Ho Chung begin by tracing Kim Il Sung’s rise to power during the Cold War. They show how his successor, his eldest son, Kim Jong Il, sponsored the production of revolutionary art to unleash a public political culture that would consolidate Kim’s charismatic power and his own hereditary authority. The result was the birth of a powerful modern theater state that sustains North Korean leaders’ sovereignty now to a third generation. In defiance of the instability to which so many revolutionary states eventually succumb, the durability of charismatic politics in North Korea defines its exceptional place in modern history. Kwon and Chung make an innovative contribution to comparative socialism and postsocialism as well as to the anthropology of the state. Their pioneering work is essential for all readers interested in understanding North Korea’s past and future, the destiny of charismatic power in modern politics, the role of art in enabling this power.
North Korea and the Politics of Visual Representation
North Korea and the Politics of Visual Representation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook North Korea and the Politics of Visual Representation write by David Shim. This book was released on 2022. North Korea and the Politics of Visual Representation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
