Mobility Necropolitics and Harmless Islanders

• Main Author: Lee, Jinhyoung
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Bada-ui Norae (Songs of the Sea); Harmless Islanders; Kim Sa-ryang; Mobility Necropolitics; Pacific War
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss43/12; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/2083/viewcontent/KK_2043_2C_202024_2012_20Forum_20Kritika_Mobility_20in_20Islandic_20Geographies_20and_20Textual_20Representations_20in_20Literature_2C_20Culture_2C_20and_20Media_20Forms_20_28Part_201_29_20__20Lee.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This article critically discusses the wartime mobilization policies implemented by the Japanese Empire on the Korean peninsula during the Pacific War (1941-1945) in terms of mobility necropolitics, a framework that combines mobility studies and Achile Mbembe’s notion of necropolitics. In particular,...