Spaces of Possibility : In, Between, and Beyond Korea and Japan / edited by Clark W. Sorensen and Andrea Gevurtz Arai.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sorensen, Clark W., 1948- editor.

Arai, Andrea, 1956- editor.

Series:

Center for Korea Studies publication series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social conditions.

Difference (Psychology)--Social aspects.

Difference (Psychology).

Spatial behavior.

Public spaces.

Relations.

Korea--Relations--Japan--Congresses.

Korea.

Japan--Relations--Korea--Congresses.

Japan.

Public spaces--Korea--Congresses.

Public spaces--Japan--Congresses.

Spatial behavior--Korea--Congresses.

Spatial behavior--Japan--Congresses.

Difference (Psychology)--Social aspects--Korea--Congresses.

Difference (Psychology)--Social aspects--Japan--Congresses.

Korea--Social conditions--Congresses.

Japan--Social conditions--Congresses.

International relations.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xvii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2016]

Summary:

"Arising from a 2012 conference, this volume engages with spaces in, between, and beyond the national borders of Japan and Korea--what Henri Lefebvre has called 'social spaces of possibility in which difference suddenly arises.' Some of these spaces involve the ambiguous longings and aesthetic refigurings of the past in the present, the new social possibilities that emerge out of the seemingly impossible new spaces of development, the opportunities of genre. Museums, colonial remains, new architectural spaces, graffiti, street theater, popular song, recent films, photographic topography, and translated literature all serve as keys for unlocking the ambiguous and contradictory--yet powerful--emotions of spaces, whether in Tokyo, Seoul, or New York. Rather than emphasizing individual countries, chapters focus on the relationship between Korea and Japan. This volume will appeal to readers interested in urban studies, Korean and Japanese studies, popular culture, anthropology, social history, and literature. Contributors are Janet Poole, Tom Looser, Chris Nelson, Robert Oppenheim, Heather Hindman, Kyoung-Lae Kang, John Whittier Treat, Franz Prichard, and Heekyoung Cho"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Movement, collaboration, spaces of difference / Andrea Gevurtz Arai and Clark W. Sorensen

Part 1. Spaces of the colonial present

The remains of colonial history / Janet Poole

When is a prison like a folk art museum? : movement, affect, and the after-colonial in Seoul and Tokyo / Andrea Gevurtz Arai

Part 2. Landscapes of the possible

The global image : art, urbanism, and gathering politics in Korea, Japan, and the world / Tom Looser

You were right about the stars : reading a history of war and occupation in the streets of Koza / Christopher T. Nelson

Part 3. Restructuring place

Mokp'o's tears : marginality and historical consciousness in contemporary South Korea / Clark W. Sorensen

Economies of "soft power" : rereading waves from Nepal / Robert Oppenheim and Heather Hindman

Embracing postcolonial potentiality : new faces of pro-Japanese collaborators in contemporary Korea / Kyoung-Lae Kang

Part 4. Politics of the possible

Chang Hyokchu and Japan's Koma Shrine : Koreans in Japan, past and present / John Whittier Treat

Nakahira Takuma and the photographic topographies of possibility / Franz Prichard

Translation and censorship : colonial writing and anti-imperial imagination of Asia in 1910s Korea / Heekyoung Cho.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-339) and index.

ISBN:

9780295998411

0295998415

9780295998428

0295998423

OCLC:

933273578

Publisher Number:

40026578605