Category: papers
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The Black Body as a feared Necessity in the Post-Industrial Urban Economy
response paper to the Sixth Annual African American Studies Conference at Macalester College Freedom Movements February 16, 2005 Yongho Kim In her keynote speech Democracy and Captivity, Joy Ann James argues that the prison-state constitutes the institution through which neoslave narratives are embodied in the United States. A neoslave narrative, James argues, is “a recycling…
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Contested Bodies: Immigrants as a Singularity in Minnesota's Political Terrain
Contested Bodies: Immigrants as a Singularity in Minnesota’s Political Terrain Minnesota Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride Internship Paper January 27, 2004 Yongho Kim The Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride of 2003 was a national movement aimed at claiming immigrants’ rights in the legislative branches of the United States. It gathered a critical mass of religious, labor, progressive…
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Strategic repositioning within academia
arguing for the statement that Cultural Anthropology belongs to the humanities and not to the social sciences December 20, 2004 History of Anthropological Ideas Yongho Kim This paper defends the position that Cultural Anthropology, as a field of study, belongs (and should belong) to the humanities division. In so doing, I argue along two main…
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Individual agency as a postmodern project in Anthropology
December 9, 2004 History of Anthropological Ideas Second essay, on the idea of agency in anthropological thought Yongho Kim This essay addresses the notion agency as a contended concept in the development of anthropological thought, from Durkheim and Kroeber to Rosaldo and D’Andrade.
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Private Property in social evolutionary theory from Weber to Enlightenment
October 15, 2004 History of Anthropological Ideas Essay 1 Yongho Kim Private Property in social evolutionary theory from Weber to Enlightenment In this essay I examine different usages of the concept of property and private ownership in a variety of theories with particular social evolutionary agenda in Western Europe from Locke to Weber. The driving…
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Coalition-making in The Fuse’s Seattle 1919
Yongho Kim Labor’s Story through Music February 25, 2004 Coalition-making in The Fuse’s Seattle 1919: Class Solidarity and Divisiveness, and Incorporation of the Other in post-World War I Unionism. Seattle 1919 addresses issues of class solidarity frequently present in the newly emerging U.S. unionism and attempts to unite workers from different race, gender, and skill…