Faculty Associate
hopark[at]yorku.ca
Professor
Department of Sociology, York University
Research Keywords:
Global capitalism; political transformation; nationalism; democracy; socialism; social, economic and political transformations
Research Region(s):
DPR Korea, Korea
Research Diaspora(s):
Korean Diaspora
Hyun Ok Park is Full Professor of Sociology at York University and is the past Director of the Korean Office for Research and Education (KORE). She joined York University in 2007 after receiving her PhD in Sociology from the University of California at Berkeley and teaching at New York University. Her research interests concern broad questions on the dynamics of global capitalism in colonial, industrial, and financial forms, in the shape of two entwined inquiries. The first strand investigates the constitutive effect of global capitalism on political transformation, including nationalism, democracy, and socialism. The second inquiry focuses on the experience of such social, economic, and political transformation by labourers, ethnic and diasporic minorities, and refugees. She is the author of Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria (Duke University Press 2005) and The Capitalist Unconscious: From Korean Unification to Transnational Korea (Columbia University Press 2015; paperback 2018; Korean translation forthcoming from Chŏnnyŏn ŭi sangsang).