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 imaginations 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.
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 EdkinsVaughan-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 IRs traditional geopolitical imaginary.
Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawaii at Mnoa, USA
The series aims to advance understanding of the key areas in which scholars working within broad critical post-structural and post-colonial traditions have chosen to make their interventions, and to present innovative analyses of important topics.
Titles in the series engage with critical thinkers in philosophy, sociology, politics and other disciplines, and provide situated historical, empirical and textual studies in international politics.
Critical Theorists and International Relations
Edited by Jenny Edkins and Nick Vaughan-Williams
Ethics as Foreign Policy
Britain, the EU and the other
Dan Bulley
Universality, Ethics and International Relations
A grammatical reading
Vronique Pin-Fat
The Time of the City
Politics, philosophy, and genre
Michael J. Shapiro
Governing Sustainable Development
Partnership, protest and power at the world summit
Carl Death
Insuring Security
Biopolitics, security and risk
Luis Lobo-Guerrero
Foucault and International Relations
New critical engagements
Edited by Nicholas J. Kiersey and Doug Stokes
International Relations and Non-Western Thought
Imperialism, colonialism and investigations of global modernity
Edited by Robbie Shilliam
Autobiographical International Relations
I, IR
Edited by Naeem Inayatullah
War and Rape
Law, memory and justice
Nicola Henry
Madness in International Relations
Psychology, security and the global governance of mental health
Alison Howell
Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt
Geographies of the nomos
Edited by Stephen Legg
Politics of Urbanism
Seeing like a city
Warren Magnusson
Beyond Biopolitics
Theory, violence and horror in world politics
Franois Debrix and Alexander D. Barder
The Politics of Speed
Capitalism, the state and war in an accelerating world
Simon Glezos
Politics and the Art of Commemoration
Memorials to struggle in Latin America and Spain
Katherine Hite
Indian Foreign Policy
The politics of postcolonial identity
Priya Chacko
Politics of the Event
Time, movement, becoming
Tom Lundborg
Theorising Post-Conflict Reconciliation
Agonism, restitution and repair
Edited by Alexander Keller Hirsch
Europes Encounter with Islam
The secular and the postsecular
Luca Mavelli
Re-thinking International Relations Theory via Deconstruction
Badredine Arfi
The New Violent Cartography
Geo-analysis after the aesthetic turn
Edited by Sam Okoth Opondo and Michael J. Shapiro
Insuring War
Sovereignty, security and risk
Luis Lobo-Guerrero
International Relations, Meaning and Mimesis
Necati Polat
The Postcolonial Subject
Claiming politics/governing others in late modernity
Vivienne Jabri
Foucault and the Politics of Hearing
Lauri Siisiinen
Volunteer Tourism in the Global South
Giving back in neoliberal times
Wanda Vrasti
Cosmopolitan Government in Europe
Citizens and entrepreneurs in postnational politics
Owen Parker
Studies in the Trans-disciplinary Method
After the aesthetic turn
Michael J. Shapiro
Alternative Accountabilities in Global Politics
The scars of violence
Brent J. Steele
Celebrity Humanitarianism
The ideology of global charity
Ilan Kapoor
Deconstructing International Politics
Michael Dillon
The Politics of Exile
Elizabeth Dauphinee
Democratic Futures
Revisioning democracy promotion
Milja Kurki
Postcolonial Theory
A critical introduction
Edited by Sanjay Seth
More than Just War
Narratives of the just war and military life
Charles A. Jones
Deleuze & Fascism
Security: war: aesthetics
Edited by Brad Evans and Julian Reid
Feminist International Relations
Exquisite corpse
Marysia Zalewski
The Persistence of Nationalism
From imagined communities to urban encounters
Angharad Closs Stephens
Interpretive Approaches to Global Climate Governance
Reconstructing the greenhouse
Edited by Chris Methmann, Delf Rothe and Benjamin Stephan
Postcolonial Encounters in International Relations
The politics of transgression in the Maghreb
Alina Sajed
Post-tsunami Reconstruction in Indonesia
Negotiating normativity through gender mainstreaming initiatives in Aceh
Marjaana Jauhola
Leo Strauss and the Invasion of Iraq
Encountering the abyss
Aggie Hirst
Production of Postcolonial India and Pakistan
Meanings of partition
Ted Svensson
War, Identity and the Liberal State
Everyday experiences of the geopolitical in the armed forces
Victoria M. Basham
Writing Global Trade Governance
Discourse and the WTO
Michael Strange
Politics of Violence
Militancy, international politics, killing in the name
Charlotte Heath-Kelly
Ontology and World Politics
Void universalism I
Sergei Prozorov
Theory of the Political Subject
Void universalism II
Sergei Prozorov
