TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schober,Elisabeth
TI  - Base encounters: the US Armed Forces in South Korea 
T2  - Anthropology, culture, and society
SN  - 9781783717705
AV  - UA26.K6 S36 2016eb
U1  - 355/.033073 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Pluto Press
KW  - Military bases, American
KW  - Korea (South)
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Sex-oriented businesses
KW  - Bases militaires américaines
KW  - Corée du Sud
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Industrie pornographique
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Military
KW  - Other
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
KW  - Military Science
KW  - Armed Forces
KW  - fast
KW  - Diplomatic relations
KW  - United States
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Forces armées
KW  - Relations extérieures
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Series Preface; Notes on the Text; Notes on Transliteration; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Violent Imaginaries and Base Encounters in Seoul; "A Certain Neighborhood ... "; An Anthropology of Militarism; GI Crimes and the Public Imagination; The Urban Setting of Seoul; Violent Imaginaries as Social Practice; Soldiers and Contentious Sexual Encounters; The Structure of this Book; 2 Capitalism of the Barracks: Korea's Long March to the 21st Century; Nation(s)-in-Arms; "A Shrimp Amongst Whales" (1895-1960); Militarized Modernity and Capitalism of the Barracks (1961-87)De-militarizing the Garrison State? (1980- ); 3 "The Colonized Bodies of Our Women ... ": Camptown Spaces as Vital Zones of the National Imagination; "Our People United!"; "Our Nation's Daughter"-The Yun Kŭm-i Murder; Tongduch'ŏn as Endangering and Endangered Space; Camptown Fiction: Minjung Appropriations of US Entertainment Spaces; Amplifying the Camptowns: Women's Bodies and National Boundaries; The Stigma of Miscegenation; Remembering Yun Kŭm-i, Forgetting her Sisters?; 4 Vil(l)e Encounters: Transnational Militarized Entertainment Areas on the Fringes of KoreaIn the Shadow of the Base; Camptown Residents: Hopeful Actors or Preoccupied Persons?; Transnational Migration Circuits into the Entertainment Industry and Debates on Sex Trafficking; Foreign Camptown Women and their Management of Stigma: "Until the Whole House Is Finished"; Camptown Preoccupations: "Marry a Nice GI ... "; Villes as Captured Spaces; 5 It'aewŏn's Suspense: Of American Dreams, Violent Nightmares, and Guilty Pleasures in the City; Militarized Masculinities at Play; "Special District It'aewŏn": Of Containment and FermentationLiberalizing It'aewŏn: A Street of One's Own?; It'aewŏn Suspense: Space of Pleasure, Realm of Fear; A Really Violent Bunch?; It'aewŏn('s) Freedom; 6 Demilitarizing the Urban Entertainment Zone? Hongdae and the US Armed Forces in the Seoul Capital Area; Spoiling the Show?; Hongdae's Forbidden Fruits; Yanggongju Revisited: "Are Western Bastards that Good?"; "Sexual Harassment of National Proportions"; Anti-militarist Punks in Hongdae; From Hongdae to Taechuri; Exit the Demilitarized Zone, Enter the Temporary Autonomous Zone?; 7 Conclusion: Seeds of Antagonism, Children of DiscordNotes; References; Index
N2  - Ethnographic introduction to the social, economic and political factors that have contributed to tensions on the ground over US bases in South Korea
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