Forces of Nature

David Fedman is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Seeds of Control.Eleana Kim is Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Adopted Territory and Making Peace with Nature.Albert L. Park is the Bank of America Associate Professor of Pacific Basin Studies at Claremont McKenna College of The Claremont Colleges. He is the author of Building a Heaven on Earth.

This volume is an invaluable starting place for those looking to expand their understanding of environmental issues to include a non-Western culture and part of the world that, as of yet, has few entries in the environmental humanities corpus.(Environment and History)

• General Introduction: Whose Nature? Centering the Environment in Korean StudiesGeographical Introduction: Biography of the Korean Peninsula in MapsImperial Interventions: Introduction To Part I1. A State of Ranches and Forests: The Environmental Legacy of the Mongol Empire in Korea2. Dammed Fish: Piscatorial Developmentalism and the Remaking of the Yalu RiverCrisis and Repsonse: Introduction to Part II3. The Politics of Frugality: Environmental Crisis and Artistic Production in Eighteenth-Century Korea4. Between Memory and Amnesia: Seoul's Nanjido Landfill, 1978–19935. North Korea Caught between Developmentalism and HumanitarianismProcesses of Disposession: Introduction to Part III6. Rice Fields, Mountains, and the Invisible Meatification of Korean Agriculture7. The Eco-zombies of South Korean Cinema: Consumerism, Carnivores, and Eco-criticismReclaiming Life: Introduction to Part IV8. Communal Environmentalism in the History of the Organic Farming Movement in South Korea9. Gotjawal: The Promise of Becoming Wild10. South Korea's Nuclear-Energy Entanglements and the Timescales of Ecological DemocracyEpilogue: On Everyday Ecologies and Systems of Mediation