Article ID: CBB470265372

Wartime Forestry and the “Low Temperature Lifestyle” in Late Colonial Korea, 1937–1945 (2018)

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This article examines the emergence in colonial Korea of a command economy for forestry products following the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–45). It does so, first, by tracing the policy mechanisms through which the colonial state commandeered forest products, especially timber, firewood, and charcoal. Second, through an analysis of the wartime promotion of a “low temperature lifestyle,” it offers a thumbnail sketch of the lived experiences and corporeal consequences of state-led efforts to rationalize fuel consumption. Considered together, these lines of analysis offer insight into not only the ecological implications of war on the Korean landscape, but also the bodily privations that defined everyday life under total war—what might be called the “slow violence” of caloric control.

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Article Albert L. Park (2018) Introduction to a Forum on War and Environment on the Korean Peninsula, 1598–1965. Journal of Asian Studies (pp. 315-318). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Lee, Jung
Brady, Lisa M.
Caffrey, Patrick J.
Iriarte-Goñi, Iñaki
Kim, Jeong-Ran
Miyagawa, Takuya
Journals
Journal of Asian Studies
Korean Journal of Medical History
Environmental History
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
History of Psychiatry
Science in Context
Publishers
Harvard University Asia Center
University of California Press
Concepts
Colonialism
Japan, colonies
Forests and forestry
Science and war; science and the military
Environmental history
Public health
People
Foucault, Michel
Ishidoya, Tsutomu (1884-1958)
Chung Tyaihyon (1883–1971)
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
17th century
Places
Korea
Japan
China
India
Mexico
Taiwan
Institutions
United Nations
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