Jie-Hyun Lim
Jie-Hyun Lim (Korean: 임지현 [im-chi-hyŏn]; Hanja: 林志弦; born 1959) is a South Korean historian, writer, and "memory activist." He is a full professor of transnational history and the director of the Critical Global Studies Institute at Sogang University, Seoul, who conceptualized paradigms of "Mass Dictatorship" and "Victimhood Nationalism." Since Lim founded the Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture in 2004, he has carried out a series of international projects, including the "East Asian History Forum for Criticism and Solidarity" and the "Flying University of Transnational Humanities."
Jie-Hyun Lim | |
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| Born | 1959 Seoul, South Korea |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Sogang University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | Marxism, Western history, Polish history |
| Main interests | Transnational history, Global history, Global memory, Critical historiography |
| Notable ideas | Victimhood Nationalism, Mass Dictatorship, Everyday Fascism, Global Memory Formation |
Lim has written and edited around two dozen books, including Global Easts: Remembering, Imagining, Mobilizing (Columbia University Press, 2022), Everyday Fascism (우리 안의 파시즘, 2000), and Victimhood Nationalism (희생자의식 민족주의, 2021). He is a co-editor of Gender Politics and Mass Dictatorship: Global Perspectives (2011), Mass Dictatorship and Memory as Ever Present Past: Mass Dictatorship in the 20th Century (2014), The Palgrave Handbook of Mass Dictatorship (2016), and Mnemonic Solidarity: Global Interventions (2021), among other works.
Lately, Lim has been delving into the field of “transnational history [and memory] as an alternative narrative to the national [one],” asserting that memory beneath history should be deterritorialized. He is also conceptualizing "Global Easts" that are neither Global North nor Global South, thereby developing the problem consciousness of his 2022 publication from the perspective of the global history of modernity.