Forces of nature : new perspectives on Korean environments

Forces of nature : new perspectives on Korean environments / edited by David Fedman, Eleana J. Kim, and Albert L. Park ; Foreward by Ann Sherif.

"Brings together scholars at the forefront of the emerging field of Korean environmental humanities to offer a multidisciplinary and transhistorical account of the Korean peninsula that centers the dynamic entanglements of human and nonhuman forces--flora, fauna, mineral deposits, and climatic...

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Other Authors: Fedman, David (Editor), Kim, Eleana Jean, 1971- (Editor), Park, Albert L. (Editor), Sherif, Ann (writer of foreward.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2023.
Series:The environments of East Asia
Subjects:
Human ecology > Korea > History.
Human ecology > Korea (South) > History.
Human ecology > Korea (North) > History.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > Korea > History.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > Korea (South) > History.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > Korea (North) > History.
Human beings > Effect of environment on > Korea > History.
Human beings > Effect of environment on > Korea (South) > History.
Human beings > Effect of environment on > Korea (North) > History.
Nature and civilization > Korea > History.
Nature and civilization > Korea (South) > History.
Nature and civilization > Korea (North) > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies.
Ecology
Human beings > Effect of environment on
Human ecology
Nature and civilization
Nature > Effect of human beings on
Korea > Environmental conditions.
Korea (South) > Environmental conditions.
Korea (North) > Environmental conditions.
Korea
Korea (North)
Korea (South)
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Whose Nature? Centering the Environment in Korean Studies / David Fedman
  • The Korean Peninsula : A Brief Biography in Maps / Marc Los Huertos and Albert L. Park
  • A State of Ranches and Forests : The Environmental Legacy of the Mongolian Empire / John S. Lee
  • Dammed Fish : Piscatorial Developmentalism and the Remaking of the Yalu River / Joseph Seeley
  • The Politics of Frugality : Environmental Crisis and Artistic Production in Eighteenth Century Korea / Sooa Im McCormick
  • Between Memory and Amnesia : Seoul's Nanjido Landfill, 1978-1993 / Hyojin Pak
  • North Korea Caught Between Developmentalism and Humanitarianism / Ewa Eriksson Fortier & Suzy Kim
  • Rice Fields, Mountains, and the Invisible Meatification of Korean Agriculture / Anders Riel Muller (Yeonjun Song)
  • The "Ecozombies" of South Korean Cinema : Consumerism, Carnivores, and Ecocriticism / Lindsey Jolivette
  • Communal Environmentalism in the History of the Organic Farming Movement in South Korea / Yonjae Paik
  • Gotjawal : The Promise of Becoming Wild / Jeongsu Shin
  • South Korea's Nuclear-Energy Entanglements : Contested 'Long-term Stewardship' and the Ethical Timescales of Ecological Democracy / Nan Kim
  • Epilogue : On Everyday Ecologies and Systems of Mediation / Albert L. Park and Eleana J. Kim.

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