[Linganth] Junehui Ahn discusses her new book on the CaMP blog

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Today on the blog, Junehui Ahn answers Hyemin Lee's questions about her new
book, *Between Self and Community: Children’s Personhood in a Globalized
South Korea*.

campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: *Between Self and Community* 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. *Between Self and Community* 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.
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