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The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) has been off-limits to human
habitation for nearly seventy years, and in that time, biodiverse
forms of life have flourished in and around the DMZ as
beneficiaries of an unresolved war. In Making Peace with Nature
Eleana J. Kim shows how a closer examination of the DMZ in South
Korea reveals that the area's biodiversity is inseparable from
scientific practices and geopolitical, capitalist, and ecological
dynamics. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with ecologists,
scientists, and local residents, Kim focuses on irrigation ponds,
migratory bird flyways, and land mines in the South Korean DMZ
area, demonstrating how human and nonhuman ecologies interact and
transform in spaces defined by war and militarization. In so doing,
Kim reframes peace away from a human-oriented political or economic
peace and toward a more-than-human, biological peace. Such a peace
recognizes the reality of war while pointing to potential forms of
human and nonhuman relations.
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.
The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) has been off-limits to human
habitation for nearly seventy years, and in that time, biodiverse
forms of life have flourished in and around the DMZ as
beneficiaries of an unresolved war. In Making Peace with Nature
Eleana J. Kim shows how a closer examination of the DMZ in South
Korea reveals that the area's biodiversity is inseparable from
scientific practices and geopolitical, capitalist, and ecological
dynamics. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with ecologists,
scientists, and local residents, Kim focuses on irrigation ponds,
migratory bird flyways, and land mines in the South Korean DMZ
area, demonstrating how human and nonhuman ecologies interact and
transform in spaces defined by war and militarization. In so doing,
Kim reframes peace away from a human-oriented political or economic
peace and toward a more-than-human, biological peace. Such a peace
recognizes the reality of war while pointing to potential forms of
human and nonhuman relations.
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.
When Emily Martin delivered the annual Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
at the University of Rochester in 1986, she took as her subject the
meaning of money in China and the United States. Though the topic
is of perennial interest - and never more so than in our era, when
economic forecasts of China's growing economy generate shallow news
stories and public fear - the lectures were never edited for
publication, so their rich analysis has been unavailable to
anthropologists ever since. With this book - the first volume in a
collaboration between HAU Books and the University of Rochester -
Martin's lectures are brought back, fully edited and richly
illustrated. It features a new introduction by Martin herself
brings her analysis wholly up to date, while an afterword by Sidney
Mintz and Jane I. Guyer discusses Martin's work, influence, and
legacy. The Meaning of Money in China and the United States will
instantly assume its rightful place as a classic in the field, with
Martin's insights as germane and productive as they were nearly
thirty years ago.
Since the end of the Korean War, an estimated 200,000 children from
South Korea have been adopted into white families in North America,
Europe, and Australia. While these transnational adoptions were
initiated as an emergency measure to find homes for mixed-race
children born in the aftermath of the war, the practice grew
exponentially from the 1960s through the 1980s. At the height of
South Korea's "economic miracle," adoption became an
institutionalized way of dealing with poor and illegitimate
children. Most of the adoptees were raised with little exposure to
Koreans or other Korean adoptees, but as adults, through global
flows of communication, media, and travel, they have come into
increasing contact with each other, Korean culture, and the South
Korean state. Since the 1990s, as Korean children have continued to
leave to be adopted in the West, a growing number of adult adoptees
have been returning to Korea to seek their cultural and biological
origins. In this fascinating ethnography, Eleana J. Kim examines
the history of Korean adoption, the emergence of a distinctive
adoptee collective identity, and adoptee returns to Korea in
relation to South Korean modernity and globalization. Kim draws on
interviews with adult adoptees, social workers, NGO volunteers,
adoptee activists, scholars, and journalists in the U.S., Europe,
and South Korea, as well as on observations at international
adoptee conferences, regional organization meetings, and
government-sponsored motherland tours.
Since the end of the Korean War, an estimated 200,000 children from
South Korea have been adopted into white families in North America,
Europe, and Australia. While these transnational adoptions were
initiated as an emergency measure to find homes for mixed-race
children born in the aftermath of the war, the practice grew
exponentially from the 1960s through the 1980s. At the height of
South Korea's "economic miracle," adoption became an
institutionalized way of dealing with poor and illegitimate
children. Most of the adoptees were raised with little exposure to
Koreans or other Korean adoptees, but as adults, through global
flows of communication, media, and travel, they have come into
increasing contact with each other, Korean culture, and the South
Korean state. Since the 1990s, as Korean children have continued to
leave to be adopted in the West, a growing number of adult adoptees
have been returning to Korea to seek their cultural and biological
origins. In this fascinating ethnography, Eleana J. Kim examines
the history of Korean adoption, the emergence of a distinctive
adoptee collective identity, and adoptee returns to Korea in
relation to South Korean modernity and globalization. Kim draws on
interviews with adult adoptees, social workers, NGO volunteers,
adoptee activists, scholars, and journalists in the U.S., Europe,
and South Korea, as well as on observations at international
adoptee conferences, regional organization meetings, and
government-sponsored motherland tours.
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