Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Note on Transliteration and Terminology xiii
6. General Introduction: Whose Nature? Centering the Environment in Korean Studies 1
7. Geographical Introduction: A Biography of the Korean Peninsula in Maps 15
8. Part 1 IMPERIAL INTERVENTIONS
9. Introduction 33
10. 1. A State of Ranches and Forests: The Environmental Legacy of the Mongol Empire in Korea 37
11. 2. Dammed Fish: Piscatorial Developmentalism and the Remaking of the Yalu River 48
12. Part 2 CRISIS AND RESPONSE
13. Introduction 61
14. 3. The Politics of Frugality: Environmental Crisis and Artistic Production in Eighteenth-Century Korea 65
15. 4. Between Memory and Amnesia: Seoul’s Nanjido Landfill, 1978–1993 76
16. 5. North Korea Caught between Developmentalism and Humanitarianism 87
17. Par t 3 PROCESSES OF DISPOSSESSION
18. Introduction 105
19. 6. Rice Fields, Mountains, and the Invisible Meatification of Korean Agriculture 109
20. 7. The Eco-zombies of South Korean Cinema: Consumerism, Carnivores, and Eco-criticism 122
21. Par t 4 RECLAIMING LIFE
22. Introduction 135
23. 8. Communal Environmentalism in the History of the Organic Farming Movement in South Korea 139
24. 9. Gotjawal: The Promise of Becoming Wild 149
25. 10. South Korea’s Nuclear-Energy Entanglements and the Timescales of Ecological Democracy 164
26. Epilogue: On Everyday Ecologies and Systems of Mediation 178
27. Notes 191
28. List of Contributors 229
29. Index 231