#Fieldnotes: Dreams and Personal Pursuits in Seoul: Part I
In this piece, I document partial biographies of two residents of Seoul that were narrated across the course of fieldwork between 2019 …
Study Sessions for Grandmother: An Experiment with Repetition, Memory, and Dementia by Jieun Lee
“My grandmother does a lot of ‘study (gongbu)’. Those are just some activities, but we named them ‘study’. What motivates her [to …
Contested Memory. The ‘Comfort Women’ Statue in Berlin and Dealing with Sexual Violence in War
The unveiling of a statue in memory of the victims of sexual violence committed by the Japanese Army in World War II …
In the Journals – Conflict and Captivity
POW release to UN authorities was the first step in repatriation. Here, communists turn over UN troops at the POW receiving center …
Emergency Alerts for COVID-19 in South Korea by Bo Kyeong Seo
[Mapo District] The 15th confirmed case occurred (return from overseas, Sangsu-dong). For more info, please check on our website and blog. [Yeongdeungpo …
The Surveillance Cyborg
Editor’s Note: This post is part of our ongoing series, “Queering Surveillance,” and was co-written with Alexander Wolff. Surveillance is an embodied …
Towards a Queer Art of Surveillance in South Korea
Editor’s Note: This post was co-written with Timothy Gitzen. When is a face not a face? With the launch of the iPhone …
What are the Prospects for a US War with China?
Was Barack Obama’s “pivot to Asia” the signal for a coming US war on China? Is the current clash between the US …
Review of 2018, Part 2 (April–June): Dealing in Danger and Diplomacy
APRIL The Trade War Begins? April continued many of the same themes from March, beginning with the apparent start of a trade …
Book Review: Patriots, Traitors and Empires—The Story of Korea’s Struggle for Freedom, by Stephen Gowans
Review of: Patriots, Traitors and Empires: The Story of Korea’s Struggle for Freedom, by Stephen Gowans. Published by Baraka Books, Montreal, Quebec, …
North Korea: The Undaunted State Tests the Limits of Empire
North Korea is an exceptional state, but unlike an imperial power it lacks a doctrine of exceptionalism. It is exceptional in that …
Only looking forward?
“In front of the office of the NGO stood a traditional ‘hanok’ house which caved in just a few days before I …
Donald Trump, Empire, and Globalization: A Reassessment
“Hey, I’m a nationalist and a globalist,” Donald Trump recently declared, “I’m both”. The only way in which the two (seemingly contradictory) …
Donald Trump and Empire: An Assessment
“There is something unseemly about a nation conducting a foreign policy that involves it in the affairs of most of the nations …
In the Journals – June 2016
Welcome back to In the Journals, a monthly review of just a fraction of the most recent academic research on security, crime, …
In the Journals – May 2016
Summer is here and that means that most of us will no doubt be undertaking fieldwork of some sort. But fear not, …
Lived Theories: Hayek’s Neoliberalism and #Pragmatism
One way of characterizing Amy Levine’s rich ethnographic inquiry into pragmatism is to posit South Korean Civil Movement Organisations as a satisfyingly …