Sitings : critical approaches to Korean geography / edited by Timothy R. Tangherlini and Sallie Yea.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tangherlini, Timothy R.

Yea, Sallie.

Series:

Hawaii studies on Korea.

Hawaii studies on Korea

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human geography--Korea (South).

Human geography.

Korea (South)--Social conditions.

Korea (South).

Korea--Civilization.

Korea.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press : Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaii, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Arranged around a set of provocative themes, the essays in this volume engage in the discussion from various critical perspectives on Korean geography. Part One, "Geographies of the (Colonial) City," focuses on Seoul during the Japanese colonial occupation from 1910-1945 and the lasting impact of that period on the construction of specific places in Seoul. In Part Two, "Geographies of the (Imagined) Village," the authors delve into the implications for the conceptions of the village of recent economic and industrial development. In this context, they examine both constructed space, such as the Korean Folk Village, and rural villages that were physically transformed through the processes of rapid modernization. The essays in "Geographies of Religion" (Part Three) reveal how religious sites are historically and environmentally contested as well as the high degree of mobility exhibited by sites themselves. Similarly, places that exist at the margins are powerful loci for the negotiation of identity and aspects of cultural ideology. The final section, "Geographies of the Margin," focuses on places that exist at the margins of Korean society.Contributors: Todd A. Henry, Jong-Heon Jin, Laurel Kendall, David J. Nemeth, Robert Oppenheim, Michael J. Pettid, Je-Hun Ryu, Jesook Song,Timothy R. Tangherlini, Sallie Yea.

Contents:

Introduction-Constructed places, contested spaces: critical geographies and Korea / Timothy R. Tangherlini and Sallie Yea

Respatializing Choson's royal capital: the politics of Japanese urban reforms and city life in early colonial Seoul, 1905-1919 / Todd A. Henry

Demolishing colony: the demolition of the old government-general building of Choson / Jongheon Jin

Choson memories: spectatorship, ideology, and the Korean folk village / Timothy R. Tangherlini

Blame walt rostow: the sacrifice of South Korea's natural villages / David J. Nemeth

Auspicious places in a mobile landscape: of shamans, shrines, and dreams / Laurel Kendall

Kyeryong Mountain as Contested Place / Je-Hun Ryu

Kyongju namsan: heterotopia, place-agency, and historiographic leverage / Robert Oppenheim Margin

The Seoul train station square and homeless shelters: thoughts on geographical history regarding welfare citizenship / Jesook Song

Cyberspace and a space for gays in South Korea / Michael J. Pettid

Marginality, transgression, and transnational identity negotiations in Korea's kijichon / Sallie Yea.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-227) and index.

ISBN:

9780824864323

0824864328

9781435666603

1435666607

OCLC:

259735416