Environment, Politics, and Ideology in North Korea: Landscape as Political Project

Robert Winstanley-Chesters

Environment, Politics, and Ideology in North Korea: Landscape as Political Project
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Lexington Books
Country
United States
Published
12 November 2014
Pages
122
ISBN
9780739187777

Environment, Politics, and Ideology in North Korea: Landscape as Political Project

Robert Winstanley-Chesters

Environmental and developmental matters have long proved key to North Korea’s revolutionary industrial and economic strategies. They have equally been important to Pyongyang’s diplomatic and geo-political efforts both during the Warsaw Pact period and in our contemporary era following the collapse of its supportive and collaborative partners. However, while environmental issues have been very important to North Korea, academic analysis and commentary addressing this field of governmental and institutional functionality has been almost entirely lacking.

This book fills this analytical void. Taking a narrative view of developmental approach throughout the political and ideological history of North Korea, Winstanley-Chesters first considers its impact on its landscapes and topographies in general throughout the era of the Kim dynasty. Second, in light of recent academic analysis suggesting North Korea as a space of Charismatic politics, the book focuses on the specificity of individual developmental sectors and projects, such as those addressing forestry and hydrology, seeking to trace general trends into these more particular environmental fields.

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