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oapen-20.500.12657-747722023-08-03T09:20:34Z Forces of Nature Fedman, David Kim, Eleana J. Park, Albert L. 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 bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RN The environment::RNK Conservation of the environment bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government 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. 2023-08-03T09:20:32Z 2023-08-03T09:20:32Z 2023 book ONIX_20230803_9781501768811_9 9781501768811 9781501768804 9781501768798 9781501768781 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/74772 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781501768811.pdf http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501768781/forces-of-nature Cornell University Press Cornell University Press 06a447d4-1d09-460f-8b1d-3b4b09d64407 aa4a0306-f5fb-450e-bcfb-ecec4f18dd04 9781501768811 9781501768804 9781501768798 9781501768781 Cornell University Press 258 Ithaca [...] open access
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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.
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