Forces of Nature

"Brings together scholars at the forefront of the emerging field of Korean environmental humanities to offer a multidisciplinary and transhistorical account of the Korean peninsula that centers the dynamic entanglements of human and nonhuman forces--flora, fauna, mineral deposits, and climatic conditions"--

General Introduction: Whose Nature? Centering the Environment in Korean Studies
Geographical Introduction: Biography of the Korean Peninsula in Maps
Imperial Interventions: Introduction To Part I
1. A State of Ranches and Forests: The Environmental Legacy of the Mongol Empire in Korea
2. Dammed Fish: Piscatorial Developmentalism and the Remaking of the Yalu River
Crisis and Repsonse: Introduction to Part II
3. The Politics of Frugality: Environmental Crisis and Artistic Production in Eighteenth-Century Korea
4. Between Memory and Amnesia: Seoul's Nanjido Landfill, 1978-1993
5. North Korea Caught between Developmentalism and Humanitarianism
Processes of Disposession: Introduction to Part III
6. Rice Fields, Mountains, and the Invisible Meatification of Korean Agriculture
7. The Eco-zombies of South Korean Cinema: Consumerism, Carnivores, and Eco-criticism
Reclaiming Life: Introduction to Part IV
8. Communal Environmentalism in the History of the Organic Farming Movement in South Korea
9. Gotjawal: The Promise of Becoming Wild
10. South Korea's Nuclear-Energy Entanglements and the Timescales of Ecological Democracy
Epilogue: On Everyday Ecologies and Systems of Mediation