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Seeds of Control - Japan's Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea (Hardcover)
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Seeds of Control - Japan's Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea (Hardcover)
Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
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Japanese colonial rule in Korea (1905-1945) ushered in natural
resource management programs that profoundly altered access to and
ownership of the peninsula's extensive mountains and forests. Under
the banner of "forest love," the colonial government set out to
restructure the rhythms and routines of agrarian life, targeting
everything from home heating to food preparation. Timber
industrialists, meanwhile, channeled Korea's forest resources into
supply chains that grew in tandem with Japan's imperial sphere.
These mechanisms of resource control were only fortified after
1937, when the peninsula and its forests were mobilized for total
war. In this wide-ranging study David Fedman explores Japanese
imperialism through the lens of forest conservation in colonial
Korea-a project of environmental rule that outlived the empire
itself. Holding up for scrutiny the notion of conservation, Seeds
of Control examines the roots of Japanese ideas about the Korean
landscape, as well as the consequences and aftermath of Japanese
approaches to Korea's "greenification." Drawing from sources in
Japanese and Korean, Fedman writes colonized lands into Japanese
environmental history, revealing a largely untold story of green
imperialism in Asia.
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