<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello,</div><div><br></div><div>Could you please share a gentle reminder about our CFP for a special issue with the list? Thank you!</div><div><br></div><div><p align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><b><span style="color:black">Call for Papers for a Special Issue</span></b></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><u><span style="color:black">Special issue title</span></u></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><b><span style="color:black">Decolonizing Agriculture: Land, Seeds, and Transformative Futures in and beyond Korea</span></b></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,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" target="_blank" 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:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="color:black">Hyojeong Kim, <span aria-invalid="spelling" class="LI ng" style="border-style:none;background:none">Myungji</span> University | </span><span style="color:blue"><a href="mailto:sheenkimm@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:blue">sheenkimm@gmail.com</a></span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><b><span style="color:black"> </span></b></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><u><span style="color:black">Deadline</span></u></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="color:black">Abstracts (maximum 500 words) due by April <span class="gmail-il">1</span>5, 2026</span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="color:black"> </span><br><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><br>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><br><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><br></span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="color:black">Topics might include, but are not limited to:<br><br></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,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:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">  </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:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,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:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">  </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><p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,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:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">  </span></span><span style="color:black">Developmentalism</span><span style="color:black">, Urbanization, and Agrarian Transformation</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,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:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">  </span></span><span style="color:black">Biopolitics, St</span><span style="color:black">ate Control, and Agrarian Social Relations</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,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:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">  </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:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,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:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">  </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><p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,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:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">  </span></span><span style="color:black">Indigenous Knowledge and Practices Involving Land and Seeds</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,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:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">  </span></span><span style="color:black">Transnational and Global Solidarity in Agrarian Struggles</span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><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:&quot;Times New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ion:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,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:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,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 <span class="gmail-il">1</span>5, 2027</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"></span></li><ul type="circle" style="margin-bottom:0in"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;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;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,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">Authors will submit full drafts (8,000-9,000 words) by June <span class="gmail-il">1</span>5, 2027, and present their work at the second workshop on July <span class="gmail-il">1</span>5, 2027. The workshop will be facilitated in a hybrid format.<br><br></span><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"></span></li></ul><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;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;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,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:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,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 3<span class="gmail-il">1</span>, 2027</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"></span></li><ul type="circle" style="margin-bottom:0in"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;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;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,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">The manuscript will be submitted to the Korea Journal to undergo peer review.</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"></span></li></ul></ul><p style="margin:6pt 0in 6pt 0.5in;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,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:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">       </span></span><span style="color:black">The special issue has an anticipated 2028 publication date.</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"><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"></span><span sty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