1970~80년대 농촌근대화와 로컬시간의 재구성 - 『창평일기』 분석을 중심으로 -

Abstract

This study analyzed local time of agricultural communities experienced modernization in the 1970s to 1980s. Local time was defined as ‘a unique local rhythm or time.’ This time is made in the process of local members’ daily life, which constitutes the implicit local property, that is, energy. Local time exists in various ways and shows aspects such as crashes, subsumption and reconstitution with national time or capital time operating outside the local area. This study analyzed Changpyung Diary written by Nae-u Choi who lived in Chang-in-ri, Imsil-gun, Jeollabuk-do Province in order to explore local time. This diary records the process of the modernization of agricultural communities in the 1970s and 1980s in detail. Since the village people worked in agriculture, they had a time dependent to nature. However, the state would dominate them by taking over the peasants’ time. There are increasing cases of the collision of local time, the rhythm of the peasants’ life to national time, characterized by the performance principle. Village people were persuaded by national time, while they constituted their own time by which they could move around national time. The national time during this period made the rhythms of village people’s life faster on the one hand and made it economically more difficult on the other hand. Studies of local time raise the necessity of a time peculiar to the individual, not absorbed into the fast time in the global era, unconditionally. It is because this can be a safety net that can make local people’s life safe.