03305nam 2200661 a 450 991079157580332120230207232713.01-282-91930-X97866129193050-231-52670-910.7312/kwon15304(CKB)2560000000053933(EBL)908799(OCoLC)695655088(SSID)ssj0000486347(PQKBManifestationID)12230524(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000486347(PQKBWorkID)10430382(PQKB)10648981(MiAaPQ)EBC908799(DE-B1597)459035(OCoLC)979742370(DE-B1597)9780231526708(Au-PeEL)EBL908799(CaPaEBR)ebr10432072(CaONFJC)MIL291930(EXLCZ)99256000000005393320100428d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe other Cold War[electronic resource] /Heonik KwonNew York Columbia University Pressc20101 online resource (233 p.)Columbia studies in international and global historyDescription based upon print version of record.0-231-15304-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- The idea of the end -- Color lines of the twentieth century -- American orientalism -- The ambidextrous body -- The democratic family -- Rethinking postcolonial history -- Cold War culture in perspective -- Conclusion.In this conceptually bold project, Heonik Kwon uses anthropology to interrogate the cold war's cultural and historical narratives. Adopting a truly panoramic view of local politics and international events, he challenges the notion that the cold war was a global struggle fought uniformly around the world and that the end of the war marked a radical, universal rupture in modern history.Incorporating comparative ethnographic study into a thorough analysis of the period, Kwon upends cherished ideas about the global and their hold on contemporary social science. His narrative describes the slow decomposition of a complex social and political order involving a number of local and culturally creative processes. While the nations of Europe and North America experienced the cold war as a time of "long peace," postcolonial nations entered a different reality altogether, characterized by vicious civil wars and other exceptional forms of violence. Arguing that these events should be integrated into any account of the era, Kwon captures the first sociocultural portrait of the cold war in all its subtlety and diversity.Columbia studies in international and global history.Cold WarSocial aspectsWorld politics1945-1989History, Modern1945-1989Cold WarSocial aspects.World politicsHistory, Modern909.82/5Kwon Heonik1962-1230317MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791575803321The other Cold War3865230UNINA