Books
Mera, Carolina / Cohen, Néstor (comp) (2005)
Relaciones Interculturales: experiencias y representación social de los migrantes.
BuenosAires. Ed. Antropofagia.
Mera, Carolina (comp) (2005)
Coreanos en Argentina: 40 años de Historia. Mera/ Cosiansi/ González.
La Plata. Ediciones Al Margen.
Mera, Carolina (comp) (2004)
"Estudios coreanos en América Latina".
Buenos Aires: Ediciones Al Margen.
Mera, Carolina (1998)
"La inmigración coreana en Buenos Aires. Multiculturalismo en el espacio urbano".
Buenos Aires: Eudeba.
East Asian Studies Research Group Publications
http://www.iigg.fsoc.uba.ar/sitiosdegrupos/geea/eng/publications1.htm
Received Publications
"China, Fragile Superpower: How China's Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise"
Susan L. Shirk
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (April 16, 2007)
Language: English. 336 pages
Once a sleeping giant, China today is the world’s fastest growing economy—the leading manufacturer of cell phones, laptop computers, and digital cameras—a dramatic turnaround that alarms many Westerners. But in China: Fragile Superpower, Susan L. Shirk opens up the black box of Chinese politics and finds that the real danger lies elsewhere—not in China’s astonishing growth, but in the deep insecurity of its leaders. China’s leaders face a troubling paradox: the more developed and prosperous the country becomes, the more insecure and threatened they feel.
"Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform"
Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland.
Publisher: Columbia University Press; 1 edition (January 29, 2007)
Language: English. 368 pages
In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. The socialist food distribution system collapsed primarily because of a misguided push for self-reliance, but was compounded by the regime's failure to formulate a quick response-including the blocking of desperately needed humanitarian relief.
"Surrounded Paradise"
Yi Chongjun.
Translation from Korean of: Ko Hye Sun and Francisco Carranza Romero
Publisher: Trotta. (Madrid, 2003) Sheets of East. Series Far East. Korea.
Language: Spanish. 288 pages
Surrounded Paradise" is based on the idea that dictatorships are never justified. To put a certain order into a country without taking into consideration the ones that living in it constitutes a dictatorship: the imposed paradise is as terrible as hell itself. The new director of Sorokdo, the island of the lepers, arrives at the place with the illusion to become it a paradise through all kinds of reforms. But, despite his good will, the sick people continue resentful and full of hatred toward the healthy people that rejected them and expelled them from the Promised Land. The island of Sorokdo is a metaphor of South Korea under the dictatorship that deprived of liberty to intellectuals and youths during the decades of 1960 and 1970.
"The Chinese immigration in Spain: A community connected with its Nation"
Gladys Nieto
Publisher: Catarata, Madrid. March 2007
Language: Spanish. 224 pages
Arranged around a set of provocative themes, the essays in this volume engage in the discussion from various critical perspectives on Korean geography. Part One, “Geographies of the (Colonial) City,” focuses on Seoul during the Japanese colonial occupation from 1910–1945 and the lasting impact of that period on the construction of specific places in Seoul. In Part Two, “Geographies of the (Imagined) Village,” the authors delve into the implications for the conceptions of the village of recent economic and industrial development. In this context, they examine both constructed space, such as the Korean Folk Village, and rural villages that were physically transformed through the processes of rapid modernization. The essays in “Geographies of Religion” (Part Three) reveal how religious sites are historically and environmentally contested as well as the high degree of mobility exhibited by sites themselves. Similarly, places that exist at the margins are powerful loci for the negotiation of identity and aspects of cultural ideology. The final section, “Geographies of the Margin,” focuses on places that exist at the margins of Korean society.
New Releases
Seth, Michael J. (2007-8)
Educational Fever. Society, politics, and the pursuit of schooling in South Korea.
Buenos Aires. Published by Prometeo
This book provides useful information concerning an exceptionally successful education transformation in Korea. Korea has changed from “a nation where a majority of the population had no formal education” to “one with some of the world’s highest rates of literacy, high school graduates, and university students” (Book Description). Although many foreign scholars evaluate Korean education fever positively, Korean scholars have worried about it because it has caused so many educational difficulties as well as social problems. Therefore, Korean scholars have recently tried to explain the causes of this education fever and suggested various solutions. Scholars’ work on education fever and expansion can be categorized into two approaches—descriptive and explanatory. Foreign scholars have usually attempted to describe the revolutionary educational expansion in Korea but with a feeling of uncertainty.
Romer Cornejo, Coordinator (2008)
China: X-ray of a power in ascent
First edition. Mexico DF: El Colegio de Mexico, Center of Asia and Africa Studies. 650 pgs.
This book offers an explanatory analysis, since diverse perspectives, of the specificity of China today as its economic and diplomat relations with the world, the complexities of the society and culture, the changes in the political system and in the economy, the situation in the countryside, the poverty in the western areas of the country, with specific reference to the Tibet, the politics toward the regions with majority of different ethnic groups and the relations with Taiwan.
Young Hee Shim (2004)
Sexual Violence and feminism in Korea
Hanyang University Press.
This book deals with sexual violence and feminism from three standpoints: theoretical, empirical and practice oriented. The first part is concerned about theoretical underpinning as well as historical background of feminism In Korea while the second part examines concrete empirical problems of women as victims of violence. The Professor Young Hee Shim is visiting Buenos Aires these days, where offered a conference titled “Policies toward the woman in Korea: factors and changes” in the Gino Germani Research Institute.
Timothy R. Tangherlini y Sallie Yea (Nov.2007)
Sitings: Critical Approaches to Korean Geography
Published by the Center for Korean Studies
Hawai`i Studies on Korea. University of Hawai`i
237 pp.; 9 illus.; 7 maps; index
Arranged around a set of provocative themes, the essays in this volume engage in the discussion from various critical perspectives on Korean geography. Part One, “Geographies of the (Colonial) City,” focuses on Seoul during the Japanese colonial occupation from 1910–1945 and the lasting impact of that period on the construction of specific places in Seoul. In Part Two, “Geographies of the (Imagined) Village,” the authors delve into the implications for the conceptions of the village of recent economic and industrial development. In this context, they examine both constructed space, such as the Korean Folk Village, and rural villages that were physically transformed through the processes of rapid modernization. The essays in “Geographies of Religion” (Part Three) reveal how religious sites are historically and environmentally contested as well as the high degree of mobility exhibited by sites themselves. Similarly, places that exist at the margins are powerful loci for the negotiation of identity and aspects of cultural ideology. The final section, “Geographies of the Margin,” focuses on places that exist at the margins of Korean society.
