Industrial heritage conservation advocates cultural, historical and economic significance of
obsolete spaces and transforms them into viable places. Thus, it is often adopted in urban …

This is the first English-language book on cultural policy in Korea, which critically historicises
and analyses the contentious and dynamic development of the policy. It highlights that the …

This paper examines ways in which tourism can create a safe area where political
contestations can be expressed and communicated. Utilising a longer-term ethnographic …

Amid increasing interest in city branding in East Asia, the municipalities of Gunsan (South
Korea) and Chiayi (Taiwan) chose colonial heritage-making as their city branding strategies …

This paper explores the challenges and potentialities of establishing a shared paradigm of
transformative knowledge based on the dialogue between East Asian experiences and the …

This study aimed to investigate the disparities and inequalities in food accessibility in
colonial Seoul (Keijo [京城] in Japanese, and Gyeongseong [경성] in Korean) in the 1930s …

This study explores how a zainichi (residing in Japan) Korean athlete reveals often-
concealed postcolonial and post-Cold War tensions revolving around ethnic essentialism …

A crisis narrative dominates current public discourse about the artisanal sector in Fes,
Morocco. Through historical and ethnographic research on Fessi crafts and craftspeople …

Since it was first introduced to American universities some sixty years ago, Korean Studies
in the United States has developed from an obscure area of interest into a robust field of …

This essay considers the possibility of what I would call conjunctural translation. While literal
translation has accelerated cultural ethnocentrism as well as settler colonial violence …