Congrats to Samuel Gerald Collins for winning the 2014 Battisti Award for best article in 'Utopian Studies' (2013, 24:1)! #susmtl14 — SUS (@utopianstudies) October 25, 2014 Goes to an article I published in Utopian Studies: Train to Pyongyang: Imagination, Utopia, and Korean Unification Samuel Gerald Collins From: Utopian Studies Volume 24, Number 1, 2013 pp. 119-143 | 10.1353/utp.2013.0013 Abstract Abstract: This essay is motivated by the seeming contradiction that Korean unification is sought after by most Koreans yet speculations about the social and cultural changes it might bring are almost absent. This may be because Korean unification denotes a series of differences contrasted to the present—because it is a potent “master symbol” with one foot in utopian speculation and the other in policy studies. In this essay, I outline some of the complexities, starting with an examination of illustrations of unification in textbooks for the tensions and co...
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