Chungse Jung

My research focuses on the structure and dynamics of social exclusion based on racial and ethnic inequalities within the capitalist world-economy. From the world-historical perspective, I strive to integrate my various academic interests into two themes: ethnic/racial mobilizations and violence, as well as hate crimes and racialization. 

In my book project, The Age of Protest: World-Historical Structure and Dynamics of Protest Waves in the Global South in the Long Twentieth Century, I explore the world-historical trajectory of anti-systemic movements, popular protests, and mass violence in the global South during the period of U.S. hegemony. By manifesting four great protest waves between 1870 and 2016, I examine how protests located in different countries and regions are linked by long-term capitalist dynamics, various themes in struggles, and the hierarchy of the world-economy. 

My recent research explores how ethnonationalism and racism associate to create various forms of social exclusion, such as marginalization and racialization. Based on my investigation of the experiences of Korean Americans facing anti-Asian violence and hate crimes during the pandemic and the post-pandemic eras, my new book project examines how a resurgence of hate and violence reproduces different forms of racialization and victimization and how minority groups could internalize racialization and social exclusion within their praxis as offenders vis-à-vis defenders of racism. This study further delves into how Asian migrants redefine their national and ethnic identities within a lasting racial and ethnic hierarchy structure through the processes of racial/ethnic inclusion and exclusion, as well as how they perpetuate transnational racialization and marginalization within the global political economy.