Renaming Plants and Nations in Japanese Colonial Korea

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-83625-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 511 g

Reihe: Needham Research Institute Series

This book studies a striking example of intensely negotiated colonial scientific practice: the case of botanical practice in Korea during the Japanese colonization from 1910 to 1945.

The shared aim of botanists who encountered one another in colonial Korea to practice “modern Western botany” is successfully revealed through analysis of their fieldwork and subsequent publications. By exploring the variations in what that term should mean and the politically charged nature of the interactions between both imperial and colonial players, it reveals how botanists of the region created a form of scientific practice that was neither clearly Western nor particularly modern. It shows how the botany that evolved in this context was a product of colonially resourced, globally connected practice, immersed in intertwined traditions, rather than simply a copy of “modern Western botany.”

Utilizing extensive primary sources, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of the history of science, colonial Korean history, and environmental history.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lee, Jung

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Botanik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. European Botany Made in Japan 2. Japanese Botany Made in Korea 3. Unsettling Imperial Universality 4. Civilizing Ourselves 5. Becoming Japanese through Collaboration 6. Imperial Transformation of Traditions 7. Confined to Imperial Privilege 8. Liberating through Provincial Botany Conclusion. Moving beyond Mistaken Names for Connected Provincial Tasks

Über Autor(innen)

Jung Lee is an Assistant Professor in the Institute for the Humanities at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea.