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Forces of Nature: New Perspectives on Korean Environments
Auflage
1
Ort / Verlag
Ithaca: Cornell University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2023
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Beschreibungen/Notizen
Bringing together a multidisciplinary conversation about
the entanglement of nature and society in the Korean
peninsula, Forces of Nature
aims to define and develop the field of the Korean
environmental humanities. At its core, the volume works to
foreground non-human agents that have long been marginalized in
Korean studies, placing flora, fauna, mineral deposits, and
climatic conditions that have hitherto been confined to footnotes
front and center. In the process, the authors blaze new trails
through Korea's social and physical landscapes.
What emerges is a deeper appreciation of the environmental
conflicts that have animated life in Korea. The authors show how
natural processes have continually shaped the course of events on
the peninsula-how floods, droughts, famines, fires, and pests have
inexorably impinged on human affairs-and how different forces have
been mobilized by the state to variously, control, extract,
modernize, and showcase the Korean landscape. Forces of
Nature suggestively reveals Korea's physical landscape to be
not so much a passive context to Korea's history, but an active
agent in its transformation and reinvention across centuries.