The white-clad people: The white hanbok and Korean nationalism

The paper diachronically examines the white hanbok as material and symbolic site of interaction between hegemonising hegemonised in Korea. It traces changing status from end 19th century to present—from being part unconscious culture, synecdoche colonised nation, symbol resistance, membrane a ‘homogeneous nation’, democracy. analyses paradoxical skin—at once inclusive exclusive—of Korean ethnonationalism, well permeable self other national identity. By exploring relation ongoing movement towards decolonised democratic reveals entwined relations objects, practices, nationalism