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Forces of nature : new perspectives on Korean environments / edited by David Fedman, Eleana J. Kim, and Albert L. Park.

Other author/creatorFedman, David, editor.
Other author/creatorKim, Eleana Jean, 1971- editor.
Other author/creatorPark, Albert L., editor.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2023.
Description258 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps ; 23 cm.
Subject(s)
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.
Korea--Environmental conditions.
Korea (South)--Environmental conditions.
Korea (North)--Environmental conditions.
Series The environments of East Asia
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.
Abstract "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Forces of nature Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2023 9781501768804
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2022034304
ISBN9781501768798
ISBN9781501768781 (hardcover)
ISBN1501768786
ISBN1501768794
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