{"product_id":"contested-embrace-jaeeun-kim-9780804797627","title":"Contested Embrace: Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea","description":"\u003cp\u003eScholars have long examined the relationship between nation-states and their \"internal others,\" such as immigrants and ethnoracial minorities. \u003ci\u003eContested Embrace\u003c\/i\u003e shifts the analytic focus to explore how a state relates to people it views as \"external members\" such as emigrants and diasporas. Specifically, Jaeeun Kim analyzes disputes over the belonging of Koreans in Japan and China, focusing on their contested relationship with the colonial and postcolonial states in the Korean peninsula.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExtending the constructivist approach to nationalisms and the culturalist view of the modern state to a transnational context, \u003ci\u003eContested Embrace\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the political and bureaucratic construction of ethno-national populations beyond the territorial boundary of the state. Through a comparative analysis of transborder membership politics in the colonial, Cold War, and post-Cold War periods, the book shows how the configuration of geopolitics, bureaucratic techniques, and actors' agency shapes the making, unmaking, and remaking of transborder ties. Kim demonstrates that being a \"homeland\" state or a member of the \"transborder nation\" is a precarious, arduous, and revocable political achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jaeeun Kim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804797625\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804797627\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/20\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Jaeeun Kim","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065153695999,"sku":"9780804797627","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_29be88db-5088-499a-addf-2e4696fd7feb.jpg?v=1768673351","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/contested-embrace-jaeeun-kim-9780804797627","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}