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Arranged around a set of provocative themes, the essays in this volume engage in the discussion from various critical pe

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Sitings: Critical Approaches to Korean Geography
 9780824864323

Table of contents :
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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