<div dir="ltr"><div><p align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="color:black">Call for Papers for a Special Issue</span></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u><span style="color:black">Special issue title</span></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="color:black">Decolonizing Agriculture: Land,
Seeds, and Transformative Futures in and beyond Korea</span></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u><span style="color:black">Guest editors</span></u><span style="color:blue"><br>
</span><span style="color:black">Ga Young Chung, University of California Davis
| </span><span style="color:rgb(0,112,192)"><a href="mailto:gachung@ucdavis.edu" style="color:blue">gachung@ucdavis.edu</a></span><span style="color:rgb(0,112,192)"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black">Hyojeong Kim, Myungji
University | </span><span style="color:blue"><a href="mailto:sheenkimm@gmail.com" style="color:blue">sheenkimm@gmail.com</a> </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u><span style="color:black">Deadline</span></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black">Abstracts (maximum 500 words)
due by April 15, 2026 </span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Land and seeds are not merely resources for
production and harvest; they are living repositories of knowledge, community
life, and intergenerational relations. By centering land and seeds in our
research, we aim to expose the violent, understudied aspects of life, labor,
and gendered relations throughout modern Korean history. Narratives of \u201cdevelopmentalism\u201d
in the two Koreas and much of Asia have frequently depicted the exploitative
utilization of land and seeds as indisputable advancement, effectively
obscuring the destruction of sustainable, communitarian connections between
humans and the land. Indeed, issues involving land and seeds lie at the core of
broader contemporary struggles over food security, sovereignty, environmental
sustainability, and gender justice.<br>
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This special issue represents a timely effort to revitalize research and
practices aimed at decolonizing the oppressive systems surrounding land and
seeds. To that end, we seek to rethink the violent and exploitative forces
ushered in by colonization, imperialist interventions, militarization,
patriarchal developmentalism, and, more recently, neoliberal restructuring in
Korea and other parts of Asia. By engaging interdisciplinary work that
scrutinizes domination, subordination, and inequality in and beyond Korea, we
intend to highlight efforts to envision and build alternative, radical
approaches. These approaches should allow communities to live in symbiosis with
the land, with the ultimate goal of collectively building a liberatory future
accessible to all.</span><br>
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<span style="color:black">We welcome submissions that utilize innovative
approaches to understanding and interrogating the politics of land and seeds
across varied historical and political settings in Korea and wider Asia. We
invite contributors from diverse disciplinary backgrounds who seek to
interrogate and dismantle colonial and capitalist agricultural praxes. In
addition to academic papers, we accept creative dialogues between scholars and
activists, seed savers</span><span style="color:black"> and farmers</span><span style="color:black">, and researchers of indigenous knowledge. These
contributions may take the form of interviews, artwork, or other creative
outputs.<br>
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<p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black">Topics might include, but are
not limited to:<br>
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</span></span><span style="color:black">Colonialism</span><span style="color:black">, </span><span style="color:black">Commodification of Land</span><span style="color:black">, and </span><span style="color:black">State/Capitalist </span><span style="color:black">Agrarian Regulation</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Wingdings">§<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">War</span><span style="color:black">, Imperial Transition,</span><span style="color:black"> and </span><span style="color:black">Transformation</span><span style="color:black"> of Agriculture and
Rurality </span></p>
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</span></span><span style="color:black">Developmentalism</span><span style="color:black">, Urbanization, and Agrarian Transformation</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="color:black">Biopolitics, St</span><span style="color:black">ate Control, and Agrarian Social Relations</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="color:black">Uneven Globalization, </span><span style="color:black">Transnational and Comparative Agrarian Configurations</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Wingdings">§<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">Militarization, (</span><span style="color:black">Gendered</span><span style="color:black">)</span><span style="color:black"> Agrarian Resistance</span><span style="color:black">, </span><span style="color:black">and Health Equity</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="color:black">Indigenous Knowledge
and Practices Involving Land and Seeds</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="color:black">Transnational and
Global Solidarity in Agrarian Struggles</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Submission Guidelines</span></u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Abstract submission deadline:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">April 15</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, 2026</span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Your proposal should include:
Title, Abstract (500 words), and CV. Send your proposal to the editors
at: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,112,192)"><a href="mailto:sheenkimm@gmail.com" title="mailto:sheenkimm@gmail.com" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,112,192);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">sheenkimm@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,112,192)"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">and</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,112,192)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,112,192)"><a href="mailto:gachung@ucdavis.edu" title="mailto:gachung@ucdavis.edu" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,112,192);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">gachung@ucdavis.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Notification of acceptance:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> May 15, 2026<br>
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paper submission deadline:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> October 15, 2026</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li>
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whose proposals are selected will submit their working drafts (3,000
words) to the editors by October 15, 2026, and present their work at the
workshop organized by the editors on November 13, 2026. The workshop will
be facilitated in a hybrid format (conducted both online and in-person).</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Revised
paper submission deadline: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">June 15, 2027</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li>
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will submit full drafts (8,000-9,000 words) by June 15, 2027, and present
their work at the second workshop on July 15, 2027. The workshop will be
facilitated in a hybrid format.<br>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Submission
of final manuscripts</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">: August 31, 2027</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li>
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manuscript will be submitted to the Korea Journal to undergo peer review.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li>
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<p style="margin:6pt 0in 6pt 0.5in;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="color:black">The special issue has an anticipated
2028 publication date.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Ga Young Chung, Ph.D.</font></div><div style="font-size:small"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Assistant Professor</font></div><div style="font-size:small"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Department of Asian American Studies</font></div><div><div style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">University of California, Davis</span></div></div><div style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:small"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:10pt">To schedule a meeting with me, please click </span><a href="https://gychung.youcanbook.me/" style="font-size:12pt" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt">here</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt">.</span><br></p><div><span style="font-size:10pt"><br><br></span></div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>