[KS] 2020 Kyujanggak Booktalk Series: 4th Lecture

[icks at snu.ac.kr]

Dear All,

 

The International Center for Korean Studies, Kyujanggak, Seoul National
University is hosting a booktalk series, which introduces a work in Korean
studies to facilitate the exchange of views and information among scholars.

We will have our 4th booktalk via ZOOM on July 10, 10:30AM (KST). If you
would like to join, please register at https://forms.gle/6PrQbr3DHZHZxDjH8.
Please write your full name and affiliation correctly on the Google Form. We
will send you the details you need to log in one day in advance. Thanks in
advance!

 

 

About the Author

Robert Winstanley-Chesters is a geographer, Lecturer and Visiting Fellow at
Bath Spa University and the University of Leeds and formerly a Lecturer at
Birkbeck, University of London, a Research Fellow at Australian National
University and a Post-Doctoral Fellow of Cambridge University (Beyond the
Korean War). Robert is also the Managing Editor of the European Journal of
Korean Studies. Robert obtained his doctorate from the University of Leeds
in 2013 with a thesis published the following year as 'Environment, Politics
and Ideology in North Korea' by Lexington Press (Rowman and Littlefield).
Robert's second monograph 'Vibrant Matters(s): Fish, Fishing and Community
in North Korea and Neighbours' was published in December 2019 by Springer.
His third 'New Goddess of Mount Paektu: Myth and Transformation in North
Korean Landscape,' was published in June 2020. Robert is currently
researching the fishing and animal/creaturely geographies in North Korea,
colonial mineralogical and forest inheritances of the Korean peninsula and
necro-mobilities of North Korean Ghost Ships and other difficult or
unwelcome bodies and materials in Korean and East Asian historical
geography. 

 

 

About the Book

Fish, Fishing and Community in North Korea and Neighbours: Vibrant Matters,
published by Springer in December 2019 in hardback and as an open access
book (generously funded by the Academy of Korean Studies), explores the
histories and geographies of fishing in North Korea and the surrounding
nations. With the ideological and environmental history of North Korea in
mind, the book examines the complex interactions between local communities,
fish themselves, the wider ecosystems and the politics of Pyongyang through
the lens of critical geography, fisheries statistics and management science
as well as North Korean and more generally Korean and East Asian studies.
There is increasing global interest in North Korea, its politics, people and
landscapes, and as such, this book describes encounters with North Korean
fishing communities, as well as unusual moments in the field in the People's
Republic of China, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Korea (South
Korea). It addresses fish, fishing infrastructure, fishing science and
fishing statistics and other non-human elements of North Korean and other
nations' developmental regimes as actors and participants within them as
much as humans and their technologies. The book enables readers to gain
extensive insights into the aspirations and practices of fishing in North
Korea and its neighbours, the navigation of difficult political and
developmental situations and changing ecological realities in a time of
environmental and climate crisis familiar to many across the globe.

 

 
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