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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"-- [Provided by publisher]

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.

Contributors:

Fedman, David , editor

Kim, Eleana Jean, 1971- , editor

Park, Albert L. , editor

Sherif, Ann , writer of foreward

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Forces of nature (Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2023 — ISBN 9781501768781; LCCN 2022034304)

Related 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

Korea — Environmental conditions

Korea (South) — Environmental conditions

Korea (North) — Environmental conditions

Ecology

Human beings — Effect of environment on

Human ecology

Nature and civilization

Nature — Effect of human beings on

Korea

Korea (North)

Korea (South)

Nature

Human beings

Environmental conditions

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

GF659 .F673 2023eb

ISBNs:

9781501768811 (pdf)
1501768816
9781501768804 (epub)
1501768808
9781501768781 (hardcover) [Invalid]
9781501768798 (paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2022034305

OCLC Numbers:

1351567186