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Base encounters : the US Armed Forces in South Korea /
Ethnographic introduction to the social, economic and political factors that have contributed to tensions on the ground over US bases in South Korea.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Pluto Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Anthropology, culture, and society.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Series Preface; Notes on the Text; Notes on Transliteration; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Violent Imaginaries and Base Encounters in Seoul; "A Certain Neighborhood ... "; An Anthropology of Militarism; GI Crimes and the Public Imagination; The Urban Setting of Seoul; Violent Imaginaries as Social Practice; Soldiers and Contentious Sexual Encounters; The Structure of this Book; 2 Capitalism of the Barracks: Korea's Long March to the 21st Century; Nation(s)-in-Arms; "A Shrimp Amongst Whales" (1895-1960).
- Militarized Modernity and Capitalism of the Barracks (1961-87)De-militarizing the Garrison State? (1980- ); 3 "The Colonized Bodies of Our Women ... ": Camptown Spaces as Vital Zones of the National Imagination; "Our People United!"; "Our Nation's Daughter"-The Yun Kŭm-i Murder; Tongduch'ŏn as Endangering and Endangered Space; Camptown Fiction: Minjung Appropriations of US Entertainment Spaces; Amplifying the Camptowns: Women's Bodies and National Boundaries; The Stigma of Miscegenation; Remembering Yun Kŭm-i, Forgetting her Sisters?
- 4 Vil(l)e Encounters: Transnational Militarized Entertainment Areas on the Fringes of KoreaIn the Shadow of the Base; Camptown Residents: Hopeful Actors or Preoccupied Persons?; Transnational Migration Circuits into the Entertainment Industry and Debates on Sex Trafficking; Foreign Camptown Women and their Management of Stigma: "Until the Whole House Is Finished"; Camptown Preoccupations: "Marry a Nice GI ... "; Villes as Captured Spaces; 5 It'aewŏn's Suspense: Of American Dreams, Violent Nightmares, and Guilty Pleasures in the City; Militarized Masculinities at Play.
- "Special District It'aewŏn": Of Containment and FermentationLiberalizing It'aewŏn: A Street of One's Own?; It'aewŏn Suspense: Space of Pleasure, Realm of Fear; A Really Violent Bunch?; It'aewŏn('s) Freedom; 6 Demilitarizing the Urban Entertainment Zone? Hongdae and the US Armed Forces in the Seoul Capital Area; Spoiling the Show?; Hongdae's Forbidden Fruits; Yanggongju Revisited: "Are Western Bastards that Good?"; "Sexual Harassment of National Proportions"; Anti-militarist Punks in Hongdae; From Hongdae to Taechuri; Exit the Demilitarized Zone, Enter the Temporary Autonomous Zone?
- 7 Conclusion: Seeds of Antagonism, Children of DiscordNotes; References; Index.