Forces of nature : new perspectives on Korean environments

Forces of nature : new perspectives on Korean environments /

"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.
Corée > Conditions environnementales.
Corée du Sud > Conditions environnementales.
Korea
Korea (North)
Korea (South)
environmental history of Korea, Korean environmentalism, environmental politics in Korea, nature and wildlife in Korea, industrial pollution, climate change in Korea, Korean environmental humanities, natural disaster in Korea, Korean beef industry.
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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