Re-imagining North Korea in international politics : problems and alternatives
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Re-imagining North Korea in international politics : problems and alternatives
(Interventions)
Routledge, 2016, c2015
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Reimagining North Korea in international politics
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"First published 2015. First issued in paperback 2016"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The global consensus in academic, specialist and public realms is that North Korea is a problem: its nuclear ambitions pose a threat to international security, its levels of poverty indicate a humanitarian crisis and its political repression signals a failed state.
This book examines the cultural dimensions of the international problem of North Korea through contemporary South Korean and Western popular imagination's engagement with North Korea. Building on works by feminist-postcolonial thinkers, in particular Trinh Minh-ha, Rey Chow and Gayatri Spivak, it examines novels, films, photography and memoirs for how they engage with issues of security, human rights, humanitarianism and political agency from an intercultural perspective. By doing so the author challenges the key assumptions that underpin the prevailing realist and liberal approaches to North Korea.
This research attends not only to alternative framings, narratives and images of North Korea but also to alternative modes of knowing, loving and responding and will be of interest to students of critical international relations, Korean studies, cultural studies and Asian studies.
Table of Contents
Introduction: What North Korea Problem? Problematising the International in the 'North Korea Problem', 1. International Relations, Interrupted: Issues of Positionality and Intercultural Relations, 2. Displacing the Detective Eye/I: Seeing Translation and Mediation, 3. What 'Seeing' Suffering Demands of Us: Photographic Engagements with North Korea(ns), 4. I Love You, You Love me? Conflict, Melodrama and Reconciliation, South Korean Blockbuster Style, 5. Objecting Objects: Be(com)ing North Koreans in an Affective World, Conclusion: How Do You Solve a Problem Like North Korea? It Depends on Who You Are
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