‘Like two pieces of the sky’: Seeing North Korea through accounts of the famine (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate) |
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| Authors: | Sandra Fahy |
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| Institution: | Sejong Society Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Southern California's Korean Studies Institute. Her work is forthcoming in Food, Culture and Society and the Journal of Korean Studies. Her first monograph, based on ethnographic research into North Korea's 1990s famine, is currently under review. She can be reached at smfahy@gmail.com. |
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| Abstract: | North Korea is renowned for its inaccessibility, with anthropologists and others compelled to work beyond its borders. Presented in this article are select findings from ethnographic research carried out in 2006 among refugee survivors of the North Korean famine living in South Korea. The ethnographic material shows how refugees’ accounts of their plight are shaped by the political conditions of North Korea. |
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