[KS] CFP for a Special Issue

[Ga Young Chung]

*Call for Papers for a Special Issue*



*Special issue title*

*Decolonizing Agriculture: Land, Seeds, and Transformative Futures in and
beyond Korea*



*Guest editors*
Ga Young Chung, University of California Davis | gachung at ucdavis.edu

Hyojeong Kim, Myungji University | sheenkimm at gmail.com



*Deadline*

Abstracts (maximum 500 words) due by April 15, 2026


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 “developmentalism” 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.

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.

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 and farmers, and researchers of indigenous knowledge. These
contributions may take the form of interviews, artwork, or other creative
outputs.

Topics might include, but are not limited to:

§  Colonialism, Commodification of Land, and State/Capitalist Agrarian
Regulation

§  War, Imperial Transition, and Transformation of Agriculture and Rurality

§  Developmentalism, Urbanization, and Agrarian Transformation

§  Biopolitics, State Control, and Agrarian Social Relations

§  Uneven Globalization, Transnational and Comparative Agrarian
Configurations

§  Militarization, (Gendered) Agrarian Resistance, and Health Equity

§  Indigenous Knowledge and Practices Involving Land and Seeds

§  Transnational and Global Solidarity in Agrarian Struggles



*Submission Guidelines*

   - *Abstract submission deadline:* April 15, 2026
      - Your proposal should include: Title, Abstract (500 words), and CV.
      Send your proposal to the editors at: sheenkimm at gmail.com and
      gachung at ucdavis.edu

      - *Notification of acceptance:* May 15, 2026

   - *Working paper submission deadline:* October 15, 2026
      - Authors 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).


   - *Revised paper submission deadline: *June 15, 2027
      - Authors 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.

      - *Submission of final manuscripts*: August 31, 2027
      - The manuscript will be submitted to the Korea Journal to undergo
      peer review.

·       The special issue has an anticipated 2028 publication date.


-- 
Ga Young Chung, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Asian American Studies
University of California, Davis

To schedule a meeting with me, please click here
<https://gychung.youcanbook.me/>.
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