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Global Easts - Remembering, Imagining, Mobilizing (Paperback)
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Global Easts - Remembering, Imagining, Mobilizing (Paperback)
Series: Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
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South Korean historian Jie-Hyun Lim, raised under an anticommunist
dictatorship, turned to Marxian thought to explain his country's
development, even as he came to struggle with its Eurocentrism. As
a transnational scholar working in postcommunist Poland, Lim
recognized striking similarities between Korean and Polish history
and politics. One realization stood out: Both Korea and Poland-at
once the "West" for Asia yet "Eastern" Europe-had been assigned the
role of "East." This book explores entangled Easts to reconsider
global history from the margins. Examining the politics of history
and memory, Lim reveals the affinities linking Eastern Europe and
East Asia. He draws out commonalities in their experiences of
modernity, in their transitions from dictatorship to democracy, and
in the shaping of collective memory. Ranging across Poland,
Germany, Israel, Japan, and Korea, Lim traces the global history of
how notions of victimhood have become central to nationalism. He
criticizes mass dictatorships of right and left in the Global
Easts, considering Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt's notion of sovereign
dictatorship and the concept of decisionist democracy. Lim argues
that nationalism is inherently transnational, critiquing how the
nationalist imagination of the Global East has influenced countries
across borders. Theoretically sophisticated and conceptually
innovative, this book sheds new light on the transnational
complexity of historical memory and imagination, the boundaries
between democracy and mass dictatorship, and the fluidity of East
and West.
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