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Environment, Politics, and Ideology in North Korea: Landscape as Political Project - Kindle edition by Robert Winstanley-Chesters. Politics & Social Sciences Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.




Environment, Politics, and Ideology in North Korea: Landscape as Political Project Reprint Edition, Kindle Edition
by Robert Winstanley-Chesters (Author)


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ISBN-13: 978-1498507462


Environmental and developmental matters have long proved key to North Korea’s “revolutionary” industrial and economic strategies. They have equally been important to Pyongyang’s diplomatic and geo-political efforts both during the Warsaw Pact period and in our contemporary era following the collapse of its supportive and collaborative partners. However, while environmental issues have been very important to North Korea, academic analysis and commentary addressing this field of governmental and institutional functionality has been almost entirely lacking. 

This book fills this analytical void. Taking a narrative view of developmental approach throughout the political and ideological history of North Korea, Winstanley-Chesters first considers its impact on its landscapes and topographies in general throughout the era of the Kim dynasty. Second, in light of recent academic analysis suggesting North Korea as a space of Charismatic politics, the book focuses on the specificity of individual developmental sectors and projects, such as those addressing forestry and hydrology, seeking to trace general trends into these more particular environmental fields. 
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File Size: 706 KB
Print Length: 123 pages
Publisher: Lexington Books; Reprint edition (November 12, 2014)
Publication Date: November 12, 2014
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B00PV653PA
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Biography
Dr Robert Winstanley-Chesters is a Research Fellow at Australian National University, College of Asia and the Pacific as part of Professor Tessa Morris Suzuki’s ARC Laureate Fellowship ‘Informal Life Politics in North East Asia.’ At ANU Robert is primarily tasked with researching the topography and history of fishing and fishing infrastructures in North Korea and the communities which form part of those landscapes and topographies. 

Previously Robert was a Post-Doctoral Fellow of Cambridge University (Beyond the Korean War) and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Leeds (School of Geography) and Director of Research at SinoNK.com. 

Robert grew up in Hamburg, New York, Beijing and London and originally studied Theology at the University of Edinburgh. Robert obtained his second masters and doctorate from the University of Leeds with the Thesis “Ideology and the Production of Landscape in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea”, published as “Environment, Politics and Ideology in North Korea: Landscape as Political Project” in 2014. 

Robert’s second monograph “New Goddesses of Mt Paektu: Gender, Violence, Myth and Transformation in Korean Landscapes” will be published in April 2017 by Rowman and Littlefield. 

Robert is also a contributor to and co-editor of the edited volume "Change and Continuity in North Korean Politics" published by Routledge.Robert is currently also researching colonial mineralogical inheritances on the Korean peninsula, the historical geographies of Korean forestry, and animal/creaturely Geographies of North Korea.