Re-Imagining North Korea in International Politics
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Downloaded by [University of Connecticut] at 01:15 10 January 2017 Re-imagining North Korea in International Politics The global consensus in academic, specialist and public realms is that North Korea is a problem: its nuclear ambitions pose a threat to international security, its levels of poverty indicate a humanitarian crisis, and its political repression signals a failed state. This book examines the cultural dimensions of the international problem of North Korea through contemporary South Korean and Western popular imagination’s engagement with North Korea. Building on works by feminist- postcolonial thinkers, in particular Trinh Minh-ha, Rey Chow and Gayatri Spivak, it examines novels, films, photography and memoirs for how they engage with issues of security, human rights, humanitarianism and political agency from an intercultural perspective. By doing so, the author challenges the key assumptions that underpin the prevailing realist and liberal approaches to North Korea. This research attends not only to alternative framings, narratives and images of North Korea, but also to alternative modes of knowing, loving and responding, and will be of interest to students of critical international relations, Korean studies, cultural studies and Asian studies. Shine Choi is Korea Foundation Visiting Professor at University of Mississippi, USA. Downloaded by [University of Connecticut] at 01:15 10 January 2017 Interventions Edited by: Jenny Edkins, Aberystwyth University and Nick Vaughan-Williams, University of Warwick As Michel Foucault has famously stated, ‘knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting’. In this spirit the Edkins–Vaughan- Williams Interventions series solicits cutting edge, critical works that challenge mainstream understandings in international relations. It is the best place to contribute post disciplinary works that think rather than merely recognize and affirm the world recycled in IR’s traditional geopolitical imaginary. 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Rai and International Intervention in a Janelle Reinelt Secular Age Re-enchanting humanity? Audra Mitchell War, Police and Assemblages Re-imagining North Korea in of Intervention International Politics Edited by Jan Bachman, Colleen Problems and alternatives Bell and Caroline Holmqvist Shine Choi Downloaded by [University of Connecticut] at 01:15 10 January 2017 Re-imagining North Korea in International Politics Problems and alternatives Shine Choi Downloaded by [University of Connecticut] at 01:15 10 January 2017 Routledge Routledge Routledge RoutledgeRoutledge First published 2015 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2015 Shine Choi The right of Shine Choi to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988. All rights reserved. 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