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North Korea's Politics of Longing / Kwon, Heonik

Kwon, Heonik	Journal Article
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2010.

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Kim Il Sung's death in 1994 was a critical event in modern North Korea. This article examines how the North Korean state has struggled to reinvent itself since the death event; in particular, how it has faced the challenging task of turning the country's founding hero and supreme leader into a physically absent yet spiritually omnipresent ancestral figure. The article focuses on the norms of commemoration and ideas of kinship that have emerged in the process of national bereavement, partly in relation to the existing characterization of the North Korean polity as a family or neo-Confucian state.

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North Korea ; Kim Il Sung ; National Bereavement ; Indian Politics - 1921-1971

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Rethinking traumas of war / Kwon, Heonik

Kwon, Heonik	Journal Article
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2012.

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The experience of the Vietnam War provoked, first in the USA and later more broadly, strong clinical and public interest in invisible, psychological war wounds. In post-war Vietnam, however, the traumas of war had quite different meanings. At grass-roots level, these were focused on the sufferings endured by the human soul after tragic or violent death. This article explores the idea that memories of the violent past may captivate and continue to torment the spirits of the dead.

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Vietnam War ; Vietnam - History ; Memory ; Popular Religion ; Trauma

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