Based on long-term ethnographic research with labor and social movement activists, Against Abandonment: Repertoires of Solidarity in South Korean Protest is at once a chronicle of the life-and-death character of protesting precarity in South Korea and a searing examination of repertoires of solidarity for upending injustice.… more
There’s a new edited book out with the title of Challenges of Modernization and Governance in South Korea: The Sinking… more
As part of the Authors Meets Critics Book Discussion at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) in… more
Kang In-cheol, the renowned scholar of religion and politics in Korea has just published the latest of his 5-volume series. Certainly a must read for any student of contemporary religion in Korea.… more
Jin Y. Park, ed. Makers of Modern Korean Buddhism. Albany State University of New York Press, 2009. ix + 382… more
A helpful list of tips from the First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies blog. From Dissertation to Book: Advice… more
Queer Kaleidoscopes: Disturbing Canadian Homonationalisms Editors: OmiSoore H. Dryden and Suzanne Lenon Call for Chapter Proposals: “The question of just… more
Just out from Duke University Press. Looks like a must-read. Terrifying Muslims by Junaid Rana Terrifying Muslims highlights how transnational… more
AAS NEAC Book Subventions in Japanese and Korean Studies The Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies is… more
Political Emotions Edited by Janet Staiger, Ann Cvetkovich, Ann Reynolds Political Emotions (2010) explores the contributions that the study of… more