Self-Referentiality of Cognition and (De)Formation of Ethnic Boundaries

Part I Formation of Korean ModernitiesPart II Korean Diaspora and (Post) Socialist Modernization in Russia and China 1."National (Dis) Unity" of Korean Diaspora in Russia 1-1.Expansion of State Power and Politicization Soviet Korean Diaspora 1-2. Narrowing of State Power and Soviet Korean Compensation of Political Vacuum 1-3. Russian Korean Diaspora and Post-Socialist Dynamic of Power 2. "Social (Dis) Harmony" of Korean Diaspora in China 2-1. Formation of Chinese Korean Political Subjectivity 2-2. Socialism and Antagonistic (Dis) Solidarity of Chinese Korean Diaspora 2-3. Capitalism and "Social (Dis) Harmony"of Chinese Korean DiasporaPart III Korean Diaspora and Capitalist Modernization in the United States and Japan 3. Ethnic (Dis) Balance of Korean Diaspora in the United States3-1. Korean American Concentration of Economic Resources 3-2. Korean American Diversification of Economic Resources 3-3. Korean American Compensation of Social Inequalities 3-4. Korean American Imagination: Between Nature and Culture3-5. Korean American "Bittersweet Life" 4. Moral (Dis) Content Korean Diaspora in Japan 4-1. Moralization of Japanese Korean Diaspora4-2. Japanese Korean Protest Movement 4-3. Counter Protest against the Japanese Korean Diaspora4-4. Japanese Korean Cultivation of Persons for Protest Part IV. Socialist and Capitalist Modernization of Nation of Origin and Formation of Diaspora Politics 5. North Korea and Political (Dis) Loyalty of Korean Diaspora 6. South Korea and Social (In) Equality of Korean DiasporaConclusion NotesBibliography 

Dr. Oleg Pakhomov graduated from the International Relations Faculty, Far Eastern National University, in 2003. He received his PhD in Anthropology from the School of Integrated Human Studies, Kyoto University in 2011. He currently works at the Institute of Oriental Studies and International Relations, Kazan Federal University. His research interests focus on complex approach towards interrelation between cognition and ethnic/national culture on the example of North East Asia (China, Japan, North and South Korea, Russia)