Lines of Labor and Desire: “Korean Quality” in Contemporary Kathmandu
Lines of Labor and Desire: “Korean Quality” in Contemporary Kathmandu
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劳动与欲望的界限：当代加德满都的“韩国品质”
DOI：
10.1353/anq.2014.0022
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发表时间：
2014
影响因子：
0.9
通讯作者：
R. Oppenheim
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文献类型：
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作者：
H. Hindman;R. Oppenheim
本文运用“韩国品质”的理论和经验多重概念，考察了当代尼泊尔的消费、流行文化和劳动力迁移之间的关系。2010年，有超过4万名尼泊尔人参加了就业许可制度的韩语考试，我们将这一时刻嵌入到渴望和纪律的更悠久历史中。在这个系统中部署的资格机制既变化，又被尼泊尔的风险景观、阶级习惯和期望所横切。我们认为，超越通常考虑这种现象的框架，对于绘制跨国过程中经常隐藏的纠缠是必要的。
Using the theoretically and empirically multivalent concept of “Korean quality,” this article examines articulations of consumption, popular culture, and labor migration in contemporary Nepal. Drawing on the anticipation surrounding the 2010 administration of the Employment Permit System-Korean Language Test, for which over 40,000 Nepalis were candidates, we embed this moment in longer histories of desire and discipline. The qualification mechanism deployed in this system both shifts and is crosscut by Nepali landscapes of risk, class habitus, and expectation. Going beyond the frames in which such phenomena are usually considered, we suggest, is necessary for mapping oft-hidden entanglements of transnational processes.