Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 363 g
Culture and Subjectivity in Hongdae, Seoul
Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 363 g
Reihe: Perspectives On Contemporary Korea
ISBN: 978-0-472-07416-7
Verlag: University of Michigan Press
By juxtaposing the cultural turn and cultural/creative city-making, Entrepreneurial Seoulite interrogates the formation of new citizen subjectivity, namely the enterprising self, in post-Fordist Seoul. What kinds of logic guide individuals in the engagement of new urban realities in rapidly liberalized Seoul—culturally and economically? In order to explore this query, Mihye Cho draws on Weber's concept of “the spirit of capitalism” on the formation of a new economic agency focusing on the re-configuration of meanings, and seeks to capture a transformative moment detailing when and how capitalism requests a different spirit and lifestyle of its participants. Likewise, this book approaches the enterprising self as the new spirit of post-Fordist Seoul and explores
the ways in which people in Seoul internalize and negotiate this new enterprising self.