Heonik Kwon, "After The Korean War: An Intimate History," (Cambridge University Press, 2020)

Following his prizewinning studies of the Vietnam War, renowned anthropologist Heonik Kwon presents this ground-breaking study of the Korean War's enduring legacies seen through the realm of intimate human experience. Kwon boldly reclaims kinship as a vital category in historical and political enquiry and probes the grey zone between the modern and the traditional (and between the civil and the social) in the lived reality of Korea's civil war and the Cold War more broadly. With captivating historical detail and innovative conceptual frames, Kwon's moving, creative analysis provides fresh insights into the Korean conflict, civil war and reconciliation, history and memory and critical political theory. Korean War legacies Heonik Kwon Korean War kinship in historical analysis civil war and Cold War Korea Korea conflict reconciliation Korean War memory studies Cold War anthropology traditional vs modern Korea civil and social boundaries Korea historical impact of Korean War Korean War and kinship Korea civil war analysis historical memory Korea Korean conflict political theory Heonik Kwon anthropological studies East Asian Studies Podcast Korean History Podcast Modern Korean Studies