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Title Forces of nature : new perspectives on Korean environments / edited by David Fedman, Eleana J. Kim, and Albert L. Park ; Foreward by Ann Sherif
Published Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2023

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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
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
Analysis environmental history of Korea, Korean environmentalism, environmental politics in Korea, nature and wildlife in Korea, industrial pollution, climate change in Korea, Korean environmental humanities, natural disaster in Korea, Korean beef industry
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject 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
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies.
Ecology
Human beings -- Effect of environment on
Human ecology
Nature and civilization
Nature -- Effect of human beings on
SUBJECT Korea -- Environmental conditions
Korea (South) -- Environmental conditions
Korea (North) -- Environmental conditions
Subject Korea
Korea (North)
Korea (South)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Fedman, David, editor
Kim, Eleana Jean, 1971- editor.
Park, Albert L., editor
Sherif, Ann, writer of foreward
LC no. 2022034305
ISBN 9781501768804
1501768808
9781501768811
1501768816