{"title":"Chang Kyung-Sup","description":"\u003cp\u003eChang Kyung-Sup’s works explore the complexities of modern societies through a critical lens, focusing on the dynamics of rapid change and globalisation. Readers can expect incisive analysis on political structures, social transformations, and the tensions that arise in compressed modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlending insights from \u003cem\u003ePolitics \u0026amp; Current Affairs\u003c\/em\u003e with academic rigour, his books offer valuable perspectives for those interested in understanding contemporary challenges and the evolving nature of modern institutions.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-logic-of-compressed-modernity-by-chang-kyung-sup-9781509552894","title":"The Logic of Compressed Modernity","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 24th Korean Sociological Association Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMost theories of modernity are based, explicitly or implicitly, on the development of Western societies since the late medieval period. However, these theories are of limited value for understanding the development of societies in Asia and other parts of the world, where the process of modernization took place under different circumstances, often in a rapid and highly compressed fashion—not over centuries but in decades. Asian societies have been propelled into modernity too, but theirs is a compressed modernity, which displays very different traits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this important book, \u003cem\u003eThe Logic of Compressed Modernity\u003c\/em\u003e, Chang Kyung-Sup provides a systematic account of this compressed modernity and uses it to analyse the extreme social changes, complexities, and imbalances found in South Korea and other East Asian societies. While these changes enabled South Korea to modernize very quickly and achieve high levels of economic growth, they also created a society that is haunted by various developmental and civilizational costs, such as endemic generational conflicts, overloaded family responsibilities, and exceptionally high suicide rates. As with other societies that have experienced compressed modernity, the South Korean \"miracle\" is replete with extreme and contradictory social traits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis pioneering work on the nature and consequences of compressed modernity will be of great interest to students and scholars of sociology, politics, and development studies, as well as anyone interested in South Korea, Asia, and postcolonial societies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47428285071596,"sku":"9781509552894","price":42.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509552894.jpg?v=1774497234"},{"product_id":"the-risk-of-compressed-modernity-by-chang-kyung-sup-9781509560493","title":"The Risk of Compressed Modernity","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn many Asian societies, the process of modernisation often took place in a rapid and highly compressed fashion – not over centuries, as had happened in most Western societies, but in several decades. This enabled Asian societies to achieve high levels of economic growth very quickly, but it also harboured unexpected risks and costs that threatened further development.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe very mechanisms and strategies that made their explosive modernisation possible tended to produce existentially hazardous consequences in virtually all areas of public and private life, and seemingly insurmountable obstacles to sustained advances in the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFocusing on South Korea and other Asian countries, \u003cem\u003eThe Risk of Compressed Modernity\u003c\/em\u003e presents a critical account of compressed modernity and its key structural risks. These include endemic political crises, distorted industrial governance, widespread labour displacement, worsening intellectual and cultural dependency, rampant environmental and physical hazards, and even abrupt demographic meltdown. However, these risks and contradictions have also stimulated structural reforms and adaptations, opening up the possibility for the kind of radical change that Ulrich Beck described as “the metamorphosis of the world.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47428311187692,"sku":"9781509560493","price":42.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509560493.jpg?v=1774497074"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/chang-kyung-sup.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}