L5 -Colonial modernity and the body politic Flashcards
What is “the body politic”
Definition of body politic:
- a group of persons politically organized under a single governmental authority
- a people considered as a collective unit
What is Modern Body Politic? How bodies become a population?
achieved through administrative strategies (population management), discourse, and biopolitics
（How power works on bodies?）
Bodies are complex, fluctuating and interrelated meaning production [where] relation of power are constructed, enforced, and resisted
Japanese perspective on Korean colony?
“Koreana”
How characteristics does Japanese see Koreans in the Choson?
Ancient, timeless, primitive
Who and What is the modern girl?
A clear-thinking person with the courage to be different and the cleverness to avoid extremes
What is biopolitics?
Biopolitics and biopower are not just as individual necessarily; it’s more about the population
*What does “discourse” do?
- Discourse: communication in speech and / or writing
- *discourse (produces)–> knowledge–> works on (bio)power (power relations are supported by various knowledge and their statuses)
- it is also techniques of managing populations through discipline and punishment
Main purpose of Hyaeweol Choi’s chapter?
-strict gender-divided culture in Choson society created opportunities for expanding a women’s public sphere, both for missionary women and for Korean women
What does “social gospel” do to the missionary women?
- create opportunities: that Korean women’s lives are elevated
- rehabilitate life traditions and give the message of improving people’s health and etc.
What does “bible” women and evanelism as modernization mean and what do they do?
- opened public sphere like church activities for women: Korean women trained by women missionaries to evangelize福音传道者
- Bible women: Korean women
- taught women Bible+ housekeeping, (hygine + public health)
- gave opportunity to gain literacy
?+? =ideal, educated wife & mother?
