The Organizational Life: Daily Surveillance and Daily Resistance in North Korea

2012/05/01 by Andrei Lankov, In-ok Kwak, Choong-Bin Cho · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Economic growth #Economics #Ideology #Indoctrination #Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies #Law #Multitude #Participant observation #Political science #Politics #Public relations #Refugee #Resistance (ecology) #Social science #Sociology

paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/s1598240800007839

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Abstract

The “organizational life” is an important part of the daily existence of North Koreans. Every adult in North Korea has to be a participant in a multitude of rituals that serve a dual purpose of surveillance and indoctrination. In this article, we describe how the organizational life is arranged and also explain the ways it contributes to maintaining the domestic stability of North Korea and to manufacturing consent for the current regime. The study is based largely on refugee interviews.

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