Presented by Dr. Albert L. Park
Mond ay October 26\, 2020 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. (PDT)
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Talk Summary:
How should we read the environment? How does reading the environment help us t o locate the origins of modern Korea’s environmental problems? How should w e organize and narrate the events\, occurrences and entities of environment al history in Korea? This presentation traces the origins of environmental issues in the late nineteenth century\, when Chosŏn Korea joined transnatio nal\, top-down drives to modernize its agriculture. Going beyond the simpli stic binary of the exploitative cities (and industrialists) vs. exploited a grarian areas (and farmers)\, this presentation aims to illuminate how powe r\, the ecological environment\, and agricultural practices have shaped eac h other since the late nineteenth century in ways that set the stage for wh at came to be identified as environmental problems since the 1960s. Overall \, this presentation calls for spatially reconceptualizing “environmental p roblems” and using the paradigm of “everyday ecology” to shift our focus fr om industrialization in cities to agriculture and the rural in reading the environment and writing a critical environmental history of Korea.
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