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Marching Through Suffering: Loss and Survival in North Korea
Sandra Fahy
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Description for Marching Through Suffering: Loss and Survival in North Korea
Hardback. Series: Contemporary Asia in the World. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPKN; 3JJPR; HBJF; HBLW3; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 150 x 26. Weight in Grams: 432.
Marching Through Suffering is a deeply personal portrait of the ravages of famine and totalitarian politics in modern North Korea since the 1990s. Featuring interviews with more than thirty North Koreans who defected to Seoul and Tokyo, the book explores the subjective experience of the nation's famine and its citizens' social and psychological strategies for coping with the regime. These oral testimonies show how ordinary North Koreans, from farmers and soldiers to students and diplomats, framed the mounting struggles and deaths surrounding them as the famine progressed. Following the development of the disaster, North Koreans deployed complex discursive strategies ... Read more
Marching Through Suffering is a deeply personal portrait of the ravages of famine and totalitarian politics in modern North Korea since the 1990s. Featuring interviews with more than thirty North Koreans who defected to Seoul and Tokyo, the book explores the subjective experience of the nation's famine and its citizens' social and psychological strategies for coping with the regime. These oral testimonies show how ordinary North Koreans, from farmers and soldiers to students and diplomats, framed the mounting struggles and deaths surrounding them as the famine progressed. Following the development of the disaster, North Koreans deployed complex discursive strategies ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Contemporary Asia in the World
Condition
New
Weight
470g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231171342
SKU
V9780231171342
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About Sandra Fahy
Sandra Fahy is assistant professor of anthropology at Sophia University in Tokyo and a fellow at the Korean Studies Institute at the University of Southern California. She has been a Sejong Society Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Southern California and earned her Ph.D. at the School for Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Reviews for Marching Through Suffering: Loss and Survival in North Korea
Marching Through Suffering is a really moving book. It is partly the subject matter, to be sure, but it is also Sandra Fahy's sensitivity to what her subjects are saying and their psychological state. That is what ethnography should be doing for us.
Stephan Haggard, University of California, San Diego Sandra Fahy offers a unique, penetrating, and informative ethnography ... Read more
Stephan Haggard, University of California, San Diego Sandra Fahy offers a unique, penetrating, and informative ethnography ... Read more