Queer Throughlines examines transnational Korean LGBTQ+ activism since the 1990s, mapping sites of struggle across South Korea and the United States and showing how activism reveals powerful throughlines of solidarity, community, and political imagination.
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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
“Politically and theologically conservative Korean Protestantism — which constitutes the dominant mainstream and political leadership of Korean Christianity, and is especially prominent among immigrant Korean Americans in the United States — is inextricable from its Cold War collusion with religious and geopolitical-economic reaches of the American empire. This discussion of history — not as a bygone past but as an enduring present — gestures toward my contention that Korean evangelicals are producing Islamophobia as a geopolitical-religious and world orientation project. By aligning Korea with the “Free World†even as Korea reaches out to the developing world, world evangelical missions not only consolidate and reinforce existing affinities and alliances, but also engage in an ongoing calibration of distance and proximity in relation to the empire.”… more
A short primer on my ongoing/upcoming work on queer geopolitics in East Asia Forum Quarterly, published by the Australian National University. I highlighted the Christian Liberal Party (CLP), military conscription system, HIV/AIDS, and Islamophobia on the rise.… more
Two articles recently published. ‘Our Past, Your Future’ discusses Korean missionaries’ work in East Africa and ‘Urban megachurches and contentious religious politics in Seoul’ is about E.Land labour organizing and connections to Somang Church.… more
In addition to Part 1 in Critical Asian Studies 45:4 (December 2013), Part 2 of Reframing North Korean Human Rights… more
The following articles in the thematic issue of Critical Asian Studies on Reframing North Korean Human Rights (part 1) are free to… more
The cool thing is that my 2010 article in Geoforum, “Neither friends or foes: Thoughts on ethnographic distance” (PDF) was… more
I have a new article in a monograph published by mediabus. This was my “fun writing project” for the year… more