Sitings : : Critical Approaches to Korean Geography /

Sitings : : Critical Approaches to Korean Geography / / ed. by Sallie Yea, Timothy R. Tangherlini.

Arranged around a set of provocative themes, the essays in this volume engage in the discussion from various critical perspectives on Korean geography. Part One, "Geographies of the (Colonial) City," focuses on Seoul during the Japanese colonial occupation from 1910-1945 and the lasting im...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
MitwirkendeR:
Jin, Jong-Heon,
Kendall, Laurel,
Nemeth, David J.,
Oppenheim, Robert,
Pettid, Michael J.,
Ryu, Je-Hun,
Song, Jesook,
Yea, Sallie,
HerausgeberIn:
Tangherlini, Timothy R.,
Yea, Sallie,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2007]
©2007
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:Hawai'i Studies on Korea
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 9 illus., 7 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction - Constructed Places, Contested Spaces Critical Geographies and Korea
  • Part 1: Geographies of the (Colonial) City
  • 2. Respatializing Chosŏn's Royal Capital The Politics of Japanese Urban Reforms in Early Colonial Seoul, 1905-1919
  • 3. Demolishing Colony The Demolition of the Old Government-General Building of Chosŏn
  • Part 2: Geographies of the ( Imagined ) Village
  • 4. Chosŏn Memories Spectatorship, Ideology, and the Korean Folk Village
  • 5. Blame Walt Rostow The Sacrifice of South Korea's Natural Villages
  • Part 3: Geographies of Religion
  • 6. Auspicious Places in a Mobile Landscape Of Shamans, Shrines, and Dreams
  • 7. Kyeryong Mountain as a Contested Place
  • 8. Kyŏngju Namsan Heterotopia, Place-Agency, and Historiographic Leverage
  • Part 4 :Geographies of the Margin
  • 9. The Seoul Train Station Square and Homeless Shelters Thoughts on Geographical History Regarding Welfare Citizenship
  • 10. Cyberspace and a Space for Gays in South Korea
  • 11. Marginality, Transgression, and Transnational Identity Negotiations in Korea's Kijich'on
  • Works Cited
  • Contributors
  • Index

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