Posts Tagged ‘Anthony Giddens and North Korea’
Challenges to Reform in North Korea: Structure, Agency and the Constitution of the Selectorate
Have the reported changes in policy or new media flows rebalanced the North Korean state and society in an observable way? In a paper from the Spring/Summer 2013 issue of the Yonsei Journal of International Studies, James Burt uses Giddens’ Structuration Theory to refocus the lens on the Juche’s relationship to agents and structures.
North Korea’s Reform Straitjacket: Impossible Choices for Kim Jong-un & Co.
The quotidian matters, argues London School of Economics graduate Alexander James. His trifurcated sociological approach suggets that both those in positions of power and ordinary folk haven’t so much “freedom to choose.”
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