Delissen Alain - De-bordering Korea : tangible and intangible legacies of the sunshine policy

As tensions remain on the Korean Peninsula, this book looks back on the decade of improved inter-Korean relations and engagement between 1998 and 2008, now known as the Sunshine Policy era. Moving beyond traditional economic and political perspectives, it explores how this decade of intensified cooperation both affected and reshaped existing physical, social and mental boundaries between the two Koreas, and how this de-bordering and re-bordering has changed the respective attitudes towards the other.

Based around three key themes, Places, People and Representations, this book looks at the tangible and intangible areas of contact created by NorthSouth engagement during the years of the Sunshine Policy. Places focuses on the border regions and discusses how the border reflects the dynamics of multiple types of exchanges and connections between the two Koreas, as well as the new territorial structures these have created. People addresses issues in human interactions and social organizations, looking at North Korean defectors in the South, shifting patterns of NorthSouth competition in the Korean diaspora of post-Soviet Central Asia, and the actual and physical presence of the Other in various social settings. Finally, Representations analyses the image of the other Korea as it is produced, circulated, altered/falsified and received (or not) on either side of the Korean border.

The contributors to this volume draw on a broad spectrum of disciplines ranging from geography, anthropology and archaeology, to media studies, history and sociology, in order to show how the division between North and South Korea functions as an essential matrix for geographical, social and psychological structures on both sides of the border. As such, this book will appeal to students and scholars from numerous fields of study, including Korean studies, Korean culture and society, and international relations more broadly.

Valrie Gelzeau is Associate Professor at the cole des hautes tudes en sciences sociales (EHESS, Paris), and Director of EHESS Center for Korean Studies, France.

Koen De Ceuster is Associate Professor at the Centre for Korean Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands.

Alain Delissen is Korea Foundation Professor of Modern Korean History at EHESS, Paris and Director of the Institute of Korean Studies at the Collge de France.

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Edited by Valrie Gelzeau, Koen De Ceuster and Alain Delissen

Edited by Valrie Gelzeau,
Koen De Ceuster and Alain Delissen

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De-bordering Korea : tangible and intangible legacies of the sunshine policy / edited by Valrie Gelzeau, Koen De Ceuster and Alain Delissen. p. cm. -- (Routledge advances in Korean studies ; v. 27) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Korea (South)--Foreign relations--Korea (North) 2. Korea (North)-- Foreign relations--Korea (South) I. Gelzeau, Valrie, editor of compilation. II. Ceuster, Koen de, editor of compilation. III. Delissen, Alain, editor of compilation. IV. Gelzeau, Valrie. Life on the lines.