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Forces of Nature : New Perspectives on Korean Environments / edited by David Fedman [and three others].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- The environments of East Asia
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human beings--Effect of environment on--Korea.
- Human beings.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on.
- Nature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (258 p.) ill
- Other Title:
- Forces of Nature
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2023.
- 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"--
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781501768804
- 1501768808
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