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Schober, Elisabeth

 
9780745336053: Base Encounters: The US Armed Forces in South Korea
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ISBN 10 : 0745336051 ISBN 13 : 9780745336053
Editeur : Pluto Press, 2016

Synopsis

Base Encounters explores the social friction that US bases have caused in South Korea, where the entertainment districts next to American military installations have come under much scrutiny. The Korean peninsula is one of the most heavily militarised regions in the world and the conflict between the North and South is continually exacerbated by the presence of nearly 30,000 US soldiers in the area. Crimes committed in GI entertainment areas have been amplified by an outraged public as both a symbol for, and a symptom of, the uneven relationship between the United States and the small East Asian nation. Elisabeth Schober's ethnographic history scrutinises these controversial zones in and near Seoul. Sharing the lives of soldiers, female entertainers and anti-base activists, she gives a comprehensive introduction to the social, economic and political factors that have contributed to the tensions over US bases in South Korea.

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À propos de l'auteur

Elisabeth Schober is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and the author of Base Encounters: The US Armed Forces in South Korea.

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Éditeur
Pluto Press
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0745336051
ISBN 13 
9780745336053
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
240
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Personne responsable
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