Base Encounters

The US Armed Forces in South Korea

AvElisabeth Schober

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

Del i serien Anthropology, Culture and Society

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Beskrivning

Base Encounters explores the social friction that US bases have caused in South Korea, where the entertainment districts next to American military installations have come under much scrutiny.The Korean peninsula is one of the most heavily militarised regions in the world and the conflict between the North and South is continually exacerbated by the presence of nearly 30,000 US soldiers in the area. Crimes committed in GI entertainment areas have been amplified by an outraged public as both a symbol for, and a symptom of, the uneven relationship between the United States and the small East Asian nation.Elisabeth Schober's ethnographic history scrutinises these controversial zones in and near Seoul. Sharing the lives of soldiers, female entertainers and anti-base activists, she gives a comprehensive introduction to the social, economic and political factors that have contributed to the tensions over US bases in South Korea.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-04-20
Mått:135 x 215 x 18 mm
Vikt:303 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Anthropology, Culture and Society
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Pluto Press
ISBN:9780745336053

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Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Elisabeth Schober is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo, where she is affiliated with the 'Overheating' project. She is also the author of Base Encounters: The US Armed Forces in South Korea (Pluto Press, 2016).

Recensioner i media

'A very powerful book which deserves a broad readership. Eloquently written, ethnographically rich and theoretically sophisticated'

Innehållsförteckning

List of FiguresSeries PrefaceNotes on the TextNotes on TransliterationAcknowledgements 1. Introduction: Violent Imaginaries and Base Encounters in Seoul2. Capitalism of the Barracks: Korea’s Long March to the Twenty-First Century3. 'The Colonized Bodies of Our Women...': Camptown Spaces as Vital Zones of the National Imagination4. Vil(l)e Encounters: Transnational Militarized Entertainment Areas on the Fringes of Korea5. It‘aewon's Suspense: Of American Dreams, Violent Nightmares and Guilty Pleasures in the City 6. Demilitarizing the Urban Entertainment Zone?: Hongdae and the U.S. Armed Forces in the Seoul Capital Area7. Conclusion: Seeds of Antagonism, Children of Discord NotesReferencesIndex