ORCID Profile
0000-0003-0176-1744
Current Organisations
The University of Edinburgh
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York St John University
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University of Leeds
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Publisher: BRILL
Date: 2013
Publisher: S/N Korean Humanities
Date: 15-03-2016
Publisher: The British Association for Korean Studies
Date: 10-2019
DOI: 10.33526/EJKS.20191901.87
Abstract: With recent work in mind from the fields of Critical and Human Geography and Philosophy on webs of political life and ruins as lively matters, in process and becoming the paper considers the futures for North Korean non-urban landscapes from a temporal (and spatial) frame beyond that of Pyongyang’s present. Following a change of status quo on the Korean Peninsula in which North Korea as we know now it ceases to exist, how will both state bureaucracy and popular cultural power impact on terrains so heavily transformed by the ideology and political culture of North Korea? Will post-transformation forces consider architectures of ideological memory entirely ruined, attempt to write their own cultures and memories on these spaces, or unwrite previous ones, co-producing new landscapes of memory on the Korean Peninsula? In particular, this paper examines the physical and material futures for two important sites in North Korea. Firstly, the Samjiyon Grand Monument and the Birch Trees of Lake Samji, representative within North Korea’s historical narrative of both military struggles in the area and the first acknowledgement of Kim Il Sung and his first wife, Kim Jong Suk’s relationship. Secondly the paper considers Mt. Paektu and very specifically the Secret Guerrilla C below it, and Jong Il Peak, part of the mountain now graced by Kim Jong Il’s signature written in huge Korean script. Both sites, along with North Korea’s wider rural and wild spaces are in a sense ruined by their enmeshing with the political narratives of Pyongyang. However, in their ruination the paper sees the unpicking and untwining of this state, through the processes of time and culturalpolitical re-configurations.
Publisher: S/N Korean Humanities
Date: 16-09-2015
Publisher: The British Association for Korean Studies
Date: 10-2021
DOI: 10.33526/EJKS.20212002.345
Abstract: The long controversy and struggle over Charles Armstrong’s Tyranny of the Weak may have, for the Korean Studies community felt uniquely transgressive and offensive, but the malfeasance and academic corruption of the episode is not by far the only instance of productive difficulty in the recent history of the academic field. This paper not only attempts to think through questions of authenticity and intellectual ownership in Korean Studies’ difficulties with the writer formerly known as Professor Charles Armstrong, but also to explore other moments of complexity, both historical and contemporary, in the discipline.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-05-2016
Publisher: The Center for Asia and Diaspora
Date: 31-07-2020
Publisher: S/N Korean Humanities
Date: 30-09-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-11-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2017
Publisher: S/N Korean Humanities
Date: 15-03-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2017
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: No location found
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: Russian Federation
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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