Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. 1. Introduction — Constructed Places, Contested Spaces Critical Geographies and Korea 1
5. Part 1: Geographies of the (Colonial) City
6. 2. Respatializing Chosŏn’s Royal Capital The Politics of Japanese Urban Reforms in Early Colonial Seoul, 1905–1919 15
7. 3. Demolishing Colony The Demolition of the Old Government-General Building of Chosŏn 39
8. Part 2: Geographies of the ( Imagined ) Village
9. 4. Chosŏn Memories Spectatorship, Ideology, and the Korean Folk Village 61
10. 5. Blame Walt Rostow The Sacrifice of South Korea’s Natural Villages 83
11. Part 3: Geographies of Religion
12. 6. Auspicious Places in a Mobile Landscape Of Shamans, Shrines, and Dreams 101
13. 7. Kyeryong Mountain as a Contested Place 121
14. 8. Kyŏngju Namsan Heterotopia, Place-Agency, and Historiographic Leverage 141
15. Part 4 :Geographies of the Margin
16. 9. The Seoul Train Station Square and Homeless Shelters Thoughts on Geographical History Regarding Welfare Citizenship 159
17. 10. Cyberspace and a Space for Gays in South Korea 173
18. 11. Marginality, Transgression, and Transnational Identity Negotiations in Korea’s Kijich’on 186
19. Works Cited 205
20. Contributors 229
21. Index 231