The State, Class and Developmentalism in South Korea: Development as Fetish

ISBN-13: 9781032087672 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 304 str.

Hae-Yung Song

Opis

This book problematises the statist underpinnings of the concept of the ‘developmental state,’ both in terms of state-society and national-global relations, challenging the notion that the state is the agent of national development qua being autonomous from the domestic and global economies.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Introduction: the developmental state, ‘Third World developmentalism’ and the fetishism of national development

PART I

Forging, reinforcing and reproducing the statist concept of the developmental state

1 Antithesising the state and the market, and the national and the global: forging the statist concept of the developmental state

2 Linking the state and the market: reinforcing the statist concept of the developmental state’

3 Old assumptions in new debates: reproducing the statist concept of the developmental state

PART II

Theorising the developmental state beyond statism

4 Traditional Marxist theories of the state as class content analysis and their application to the Korean developmental state

5 An alternative Marxist theory of the state: social form critique and its application to the Korean developmental state

6 Theorising the developmental state beyond statism: a critique of the fetishism of national development

PART III

The global and social origins of the Korean developmental state and its transformation

7 The rise of the modern Korean state: capitalism by imperialism and capitalism from above

8 The global and social origins of the Korean developmental state

9 The dialectic of political and economic liberalisation, and the transition of the Korean developmental state

Conclusion: democratisation, fetishisation and the transformation of the developmental state

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Index

O autorze

Hae-Yung Song works on political theory, development theory and the political economy of South Korea. She has taught at Warwick University and worked for the South Korean government in the areas of international relations and diplomacy. She currently teaches at  Graduate School of International Studies, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea.