Sonn, JW;
Gimm, D-W;
(2013)
South Korea's Saemaul (New Village) movement: an organisational technology for the production of developmentalist subjects.
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES-REVUE CANADIENNE D ETUDES DU DEVELOPPEMENT
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10.1080/02255189.2013.755921.
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Abstract
This paper uses the Foucauldian concepts of governmentality and apparatus (dispositive) to understand how the state can use an organisational technology to penetrate everyday life through hegemonic discourse. With a case study of the Saemaul (New Village) movement, a rural development initiative in South Korea in the 1970s, we analyse how the state used half-civilian, half-bureaucratic agents called Saemaul leaders to inscribe the discourse of developmentalism in the peasants' bodies and souls. This article claims that organisational technology plays a critical role in the diffusion of hegemonic discourse during rapid structural transformations such as the industrialisation of South Korea.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | South Korea's Saemaul (New Village) movement: an organisational technology for the production of developmentalist subjects |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02255189.2013.755921 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2013.755921 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2013 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The moral rights of the named author(s) have been asserted. |
| Keywords: | developmental state, rural development, South Korea, Saemaul, Foucault |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1365385 |
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