Book/Printed Material Forces of nature : new perspectives on Korean environments

Title

• Forces of nature : new perspectives on Korean environments

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.

Names

• Fedman, David, editor
• Kim, Eleana Jean, 1971- editor
• Park, Albert L., editor
• Sherif, Ann, writer of foreword

Created / Published

• Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2023.

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.

Headings

• -  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

Notes

• -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
• -  Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

Medium

• 1 online resource

Call Number/Physical Location

• GF659

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2022034305

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2022034305

Rights Advisory

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode External

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access.

Online Format

• epub
• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2022034305

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