“De/Militarized Ecologies: Making Peace with Nature Along the Korean DMZ” with Eleana J. Kim

Friday, Oct. 20, 2023, 6 p.m.
Micron Business and Economics Building (MBEB), Skaggs Hall, Room 1301

Dr. Eleana J. Kim, professor of Anthropology at the University of California-Irvine, will talk about the entwined histories of military violence and postcolonial modernization in East Asia and their effects on local and global ecologies. In analyzing avian migratory flyways and other multispecies relations, Kim unpacks the material, political, and ecological entanglements of the Korean DMZ within processes of militarized liberal capitalism. Her framework of “biological peace” offers a critical vantage point for conceptualizing peace beyond human politics, in the context of climate crisis, perpetual war, and ongoing militarization of the planet.

Sponsors:

• College of Arts and Sciences Humanities and Social Sciences Initiative
• School of Public Service
• College of Innovation and Design
• Division of Research and Economic Development