Base Encounters

Elisabeth Schober is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo, where she is affiliated with the 'Overheating' project. She is also the author of Base Encounters: The US Armed Forces in South Korea (Pluto Press, 2016).

• List of FiguresSeries PrefaceNotes on the TextNotes on TransliterationAcknowledgements 1. Introduction: Violent Imaginaries and Base Encounters in Seoul2. Capitalism of the Barracks: Korea’s Long March to the Twenty-First Century3. 'The Colonized Bodies of Our Women...': Camptown Spaces as Vital Zones of the National Imagination4. Vil(l)e Encounters: Transnational Militarized Entertainment Areas on the Fringes of Korea5. It‘aewon's Suspense: Of American Dreams, Violent Nightmares and Guilty Pleasures in the City 6. Demilitarizing the Urban Entertainment Zone?: Hongdae and the U.S. Armed Forces in the Seoul Capital Area7. Conclusion: Seeds of Antagonism, Children of Discord NotesReferencesIndex

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