Forces of Nature : New Perspectives on Korean Environments

Forces of Nature New Perspectives on Korean Environments

Bringing together a multidisciplinary conversation about the entanglement of nature and society in the Korean peninsula, Forces of Nature aims to define and develop the field of the Korean environmental humanities. At its core, the volume works to foreground non-human agents that have long been marg...

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Autor Corporativo: Luce Foundation funder (funder)
Otros Autores: Eriksson Fortier, Ewa, contributor (contributor), Fedman, David, contributor (editor), Fedman, David, editor, McCormick, Sooa, contributor, Jolivette, Lindsay S. R., contributor, Kim, Eleana Jean, 1971- contributor, Kim, Eleana Jean, 1971- editor, Kim, Nan, 1969- contributor, Kim, Suzy, 1972- contributor, Lee, John S., contributor, Los Huertos, Marc, contributor, Paik, Yonjae, contributor, Pak, Hyojin, contributor, Park, Albert L., contributor, Park, Albert L., editor, Müller, Anders Riel, contributor, Seeley, Joseph, contributor, Sherif, Ann, contributor, Shin, Jeongsu, contributor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press [2023]
Colección:The Environments of East Asia
Materias:
Human beings > Effect of environment on > Korea (North) > History.
Human beings > Effect of environment on > Korea (South) > History.
Human beings > Effect of environment on > Korea > History.
Human ecology > Korea (North) > History.
Human ecology > Korea (South) > History.
Human ecology > Korea > History.
Nature and civilization > Korea (North) > History.
Nature and civilization > Korea (South) > History.
Nature and civilization > Korea > History.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > Korea (North) > History.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > Korea (South) > History.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > Korea > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration and Terminology
  • General Introduction: Whose Nature? Centering the Environment in Korean Studies
  • Geographical Introduction: A Biography of the Korean Peninsula in Maps
  • Part 1 IMPERIAL INTERVENTIONS
  • Introduction
  • 1. A State of Ranches and Forests: The Environmental Legacy of the Mongol Empire in Korea
  • 2. Dammed Fish: Piscatorial Developmentalism and the Remaking of the Yalu River
  • Part 2 CRISIS AND RESPONSE
  • Introduction
  • 3. The Politics of Frugality: Environmental Crisis and Artistic Production in Eighteenth-Century Korea
  • 4. Between Memory and Amnesia: Seoul’s Nanjido Landfill, 1978–1993
  • 5. North Korea Caught between Developmentalism and Humanitarianism
  • Par t 3 PROCESSES OF DISPOSSESSION
  • Introduction
  • 6. Rice Fields, Mountains, and the Invisible Meatification of Korean Agriculture
  • 7. The Eco-zombies of South Korean Cinema: Consumerism, Carnivores, and Eco-criticism
  • Par t 4 RECLAIMING LIFE
  • Introduction
  • 8. Communal Environmentalism in the History of the Organic Farming Movement in South Korea
  • 9. Gotjawal: The Promise of Becoming Wild
  • 10. South Korea’s Nuclear-Energy Entanglements and the Timescales of Ecological Democracy
  • Epilogue: On Everyday Ecologies and Systems of Mediation
  • Notes
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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