Base encounters : the US armed forces in South Korea / Elisabeth Schober.

London : Pluto Press, 2016.©2016

Schober, Elisabeth. author.

01-01-2016

214 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.

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Anthropology, culture, and society

Anthropology, culture, and society.

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Korea, South

US military bases

Sex industry

Social conditions

International relations

Cultural values

History

Overseas item

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780745336053

0745336051

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 Kum-i Murder -- Tongduch'on as Endangering and Endangered Space -- Camptown Fiction: Minjung Appropriations of US Entertainment Spaces -- Amplifying the Camptowns: Women's Bodies and National Boundaries --Contents note continued: The Stigma of Miscegenation -- Remembering Yun Kum-i, Forgetting her Sisters? -- 4.Vil(l)e Encounters: Transnational Militarized Entertainment Areas on the Fringes of Korea -- In 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'aewon's Suspense: Of American Dreams, Violent Nightmares, and Guilty Pleasures in the City -- Militarized Masculinities at Play -- "Special District It'aewon": Of Containment and Fermentation -- Liberalizing It'aewon: A Street of One's Own? -- It'aewon Suspense: Space of Pleasure, Realm of Fear -- A Really Violent Bunch? -- It'aewon('s) Freedom --Contents note continued: 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 Discord.

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