Transformative Citizenship in South Korea

South Korea¿s postcolonial history has been replete with dramatic societal transformations through which it has emerged with a fully blown modernity, or compressed modernity. There have arisen the transformation-oriented state, society, and citizenry for which each transformation becomes an ultimate purpose in itself, its processes and means constitute the main sociopolitical order, and the transformation-embedded interests form the core social identity. A distinct mode of citizenship has thereby arisen as transformative contributory rights, namely, effective or legitimate claims to national and social resources, opportunities, and respects that accrue to each citizen¿s contributions to the nation¿s or society¿s collective transformative goals. South Koreans have been exhorted or have exhorted themselves to intensely engage in such collective transformations, so that their citizenship is framed and substantiated by the conditions, processes, and outcomes of such transformative engagements. This book concretely and systematically analyzes how this transformative dynamic has shaped South Koreans¿ developmental, social, educational, reproductive, and cultural citizenship.

Chang Kyung-Sup teaches sociology at Seoul National University, holding Distinguished Professorship.

Part I. Historico-Political Contours of Citizenship.- Chapter 1: Introduction: Transformative Citizenship in Perspective.- Chapter 2: State-Society Relations and Citizenship Regimes in East Asia.- Chapter 3: Political Citizenship without Democratic Social Representation.- Part II. Citizenship as Transformative Contributory Rights.- Chapter 4: Developmental Citizenship and Its Discontents.- Chapter 5: Social Citizenship between Developmental Liberalism and Neoliberalism.- Chapter 6: Education as Citizenship, or Citizenship by Education.- Chapter 7: Reproductive Contributory Rights: From Patriarchal to Patriotic Fertility?.- Chapter 8: Ad Hoc Cultural Citizenship: Neotraditional to Multicultural (Non)transition.- Chapter 9: Risk Citizenship in Complex Risk Society.- Part III. Whither Post-Transformative Citizenship.- Chapter 10: Transformative Citizenship, Transformative Victimhood.