Seeds of Control: Toward a Timberline View of Japanese Colonial Rule in Korea

Seeds of Control: Toward a Timberline View of Japanese Colonial Rule in Korea

February 11, 2022

EVENT DESCRIPTION

This talk will introduce the core arguments and interventions that animate Seeds of Control, one of the first English-language studies of the environmental impacts and legacies of Japan's colonial occupation of Korea. By outlining some of the central themes of the book, the author hopes to stimulate a broader conversation about green governmentality and colonial power, as well as the growth of Korean environmental history as a field.

SPEAKER
DAVID FEDMAN

David Fedman is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Seeds of Control: Japan's Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea (University of Washington Press, 2020), which received the American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch Book Award and the Forest History Society's Weyerhaeuser Book Award. His most recent publication, as co-editor, is Forces of Nature: New Approaches to Korean Environments (Cornell University Press, forthcoming 2022).

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This virtual event is organized by Min-Jung Kwak (Geography and Environmental Studies, Saint Mary’s University).

This virtual event is presented by the Korean Office for Research and Education (KORE) which is funded by the Academy of Korean Studies. It is co-sponsored by the Asian Studies Program at Saint Mary’s University.