More-Than-Human Infrastructures of Care and Solidarity in South Korea

Tuesday, 8 July 2025: 11:15
Location: SJES003 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))
Oral Presentation
Eleana KIM, University of California, Irvine, USA
This presentation will offer perspective from my fieldwork with South Korean ecologists and naturalists who enact forms of care and solidarity in their work with endangered species in the Korean Demilitarize Zone. In doing so, I will reflect upon alternative infrastructures and social relations in South Korea, where economic precarity, state power, and solidarity movements are intersecting movements to protest militarization and environmental insecurity.