Rare earth minerals, technology metals and extractive landscapes in North Korea's web of political life

dc.contributor.authorWinstanley-Chesters, Robert
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-25T22:14:10Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.date.updated2020-11-23T11:52:06Z
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines a moment, using material sourced from within the United States National Archives, Record Group 242, in which North Korea’s spaces and geographies of mineralogical knowledge and extraction, particulary those of Rare Earth minerals and technology metals used for the most part for war and military capacity were reconfigured at the behest of a nexus of local, geo-political and ideological interests. Documentary and Cartographic material sourced from Pyongyang’s Mining/Resource Ministries and from the pre-Liberation colonial government, during the US Army’s occupation of Pyongyang in 1950 allows for new perspectives on the place of these materials within North Korea’s web of political and material life. This paper suggests that the nexus of interests and processes which enabled the extraction of Technology Metals and Rare Earths in North Korean would prove vital for the development of Pyongyang’s present and future relationships with nature and developmental possibility. The physical and social landscapes generated by this development would later support North Korea in its political quest to capture both real and imagined Socialist modernity.en_AU
dc.description.sponsorshipThe research for this paper has received generous support from the Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship "Informal Life Politics in the Remaking of North East Asia: From Cold War to Post-Cold War” and the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS-2010-DZZ-3104) during the author’s Post-Doctoral Fellowship with the Beyond the Korean War Project (University of Cambridge).en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn2214-790Xen_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/251968
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherElsevieren_AU
dc.relationhttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FL120100155en_AU
dc.rights© 2017 Elsevier Ltden_AU
dc.sourceThe Extractive Industries and Societyen_AU
dc.titleRare earth minerals, technology metals and extractive landscapes in North Korea's web of political lifeen_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue1en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage51en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage44en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationWinstanley-Chesters, Robert, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailu1022134@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidWinstanley-Chesters, Robert, u1022134en_AU
local.description.embargo2099-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor091499 - Resources Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy not elsewhere classifieden_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationa383154xPUB9451en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume5en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1016/j.exis.2017.12.011en_AU
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-85042303138
local.identifier.uidSubmittedBya383154en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.elsevier.com/en-auen_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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