Winstanley-Chesters, R (2018) 'Rare earth minerals, technology metals and extractive landscapes in North Korea's web of political life.' The Extractive Industries and Society, 5 (1). 44 - 51.
Abstract
This 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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | North Korea, Korean Peninsula, Soviet Union, socialist mineral histories, captured documents, rare earths, technology metals |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) |
| Divisions: | School of Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Mar 2020 17:07 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Aug 2021 09:53 |
| ISSN: | 2214-790X |
| URI / Page ID: | https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/12952 |
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