Everyday life in the Korean border: frontier village as a device for counter-appropriation

Publisher:
Routledge
Publication Type:
Journal Article
Citation:
Space and Polity, 2021, 25, (3), pp. 261-282
Issue Date:
2021-04-29
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This paper examines spatial practices in the everyday life of the villagers in a South Korean border village. Focusing on the Yugokri Unification Village in Cheorwon, the paper analyses the residents’ spatial actions as a lens to study how the villagers cope with the volatile border. It reveals highly intricate and discrete ways the residents use the space of the frontier village as a platform, despite high levels of control imposed by the state, for their struggles against the authoritarian vision by developing, augmenting and enhancing their spaces around them in their everyday life.
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