<div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues,<div>Today on the blog, Junehui Ahn answers Hyemin Lee's questions about her new book,<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"> </span><i style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Between Self and
Community: Children’s Personhood in a Globalized South Korea</i><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><a href="http://campanthropology.org">campanthropology.org</a></span></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Ilana</div><div><br></div><div>Press blurb: <em style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(13,13,13);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.23px">Between Self and Community</em><span style="color:rgb(13,13,13);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.23px"> investigates the early childhood socialization process in a rapidly changing, globalizing South Korea. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in a South Korean preschool, it shows how both children and teachers interactively navigate, construct, and reconstruct their own multifaceted and sometimes conflicting models of what makes “a good child” amid Korea’s shifting educational and social contexts. Junehui Ahn details the conflicting and competing ways in which the ideologies of new personhood are enacted in actual everyday socialization contexts and reveals the confusions, dilemmas, and ruptures that occur when globally dominant ideals of childhood development are superimposed onto local experiences. </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(13,13,13);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.23px">Between Self and Community</em><span style="color:rgb(13,13,13);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.23px"> pays special attention to the way children, as active agents of socialization, create, construe, and sustain their own meanings of their personhood, thereby highlighting the dynamism children and their culturally rich peer world create in South Korea’s shifting socialization terrain. </span></div></div>