Forces of Nature : New Perspectives on Korean Environments / edited by David Fedman, Eleana J. Kim, and Albert L. Park.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The environments of East Asia | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2023Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resource (258 pages): illustrations (black and white, and colour), mapsContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501768811
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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.
Summary: "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 conditions"-- Provided by publisher.
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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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"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 conditions"-- Provided by publisher.

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