The Kappe Library’s “Contested Spaces” series focuses on regions currently being shaped by violence and heightened partisan disputation.
During Summer 2024 the library added to its KL Research Guides four new guides:
Like the KL’s other Research Guides these recommend books, articles and online resources that are available via the Kappe Library, or open access online. The guides emphasize design: the built environment, landscape design, planning, preservation and regional spatial traditions and practices, but also include socio-cultural and political histories to better understand each region.
Cho, Hanbum, et al., “Future Roadmap for the DMZ Peace Park,” Space, no. 558 (May 2014), 62–71.
Dorasan Peace Park (Paju, S. Korea)
Hwang, Jeewook, “The DMZ World Peace Park and Its Issues Rise to the Fore Once More,” Space, no. 555 (February 2014), 56–65.
Kim, Chaehan, & Weonjoo Jung. “A Spatio-Historical Meaning of the Korean DMZ.” Space, no. 560 (July 1, 2014): 96–103.
Kim, Chaehan. “The Spatio-Temporal Politics of Panmunjom [Korea].” Space, no. 607 (June 1, 2018): 34–39.
Kim, Dongsei, “Metamorphosis of a Zone : On the Basis of the DMZ - the Demilitarized Zone - That Separates the Two Korean States, ….” Topos: The International Review of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, no. 104 (January 2018): 74–79.
Kim, Eleana Jean, Making Peace with Nature: Ecological Encounters along the Korean DMZ, Duke University Press, GF659 .K535 2022
Kim, Monica, The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History, Princeton University Press, DS921 .K45 2019
Kim, Suk-Young, DMZ Crossing : Performing Emotional Citizenship Along the Korean Border, Columbia University Press, 2014 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Lee, Jongsoo, The Partition of Korea after World War II : A Global History, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Lee, Si-Woo, Life on the Edge of the DMZ, Brill, 2008 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Shim, Youngkyu, “Limits of Architecture and the Role of Architects in the Metaphysical DMZ,” Space, no. 558 (May 2014), 72–79.
Shim, Youngkyu, “Seize the DMZ!”, Space, no. 555 (February 2014), 74–79.
United Nations Command, enforces the terms of the Korean Armistice Agreement (July 27, 1953).
Bruno, Marco, et al., Borrowed city : private use of public space in Seoul, Damdi Pub., NA9053.S6B78 2013.
Hassig, Ralph, & Kongdan Oh, The Hidden People of North Korea : Everyday Life in the Hermit Kingdom, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2015 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Lee, Shelley Sang-Hee, Koreatown, Los Angeles : immigration, race, and the "American dream", Stanford University Press, F869.L86K675 2022.
Park, Nani, & Robert J. Fouser, Hanok: the Korean House : Architecture and Design in the Contemporary Hanok, Tuttle Publishing, 2015 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Song, Jesook, Living on Your Own : Single Women, Rental Housing, and Post-Revolutionary Affect in Contemporary South Korea, State University of New York Press, 2014 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Song, Min Hyoung, Strange future : pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Duke University Press, F869.L89A27 2005.
Yi, Ki-ung (Editor), Hanok : the traditional Korean house, Youlwadang Publishers, NA7453.6.A1H36 2016.
Chappell, In-Sook, Pyongyang, Oberon Books, 2016 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Collins, Francis L., Global Asian City : Migration, Desire and the Politics of Encounter in 21st Century Seoul, John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2018 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Henry, Todd A., Assimilating Seoul : Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945, University of California Press, 2014 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Jung, Inha, Architecture and urbanism in modern Korea, University of Hawai'i Press, NA1565.C467 2013.
Pai, Hyung Il, Heritage Management in Korea and Japan : The Politics of Antiquity and Identity, University of Washington Press, 2014 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Park, Chin-ho & Erik Owen Moss, Seoul fortress wall: boundary and beyond, D-Lab Design Research and Innovation Laboratory, Inha University, NA1567.S4P35 2010.
Park, Jinhee, & John Hong, Convergent Flux : Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism in Korea, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2012 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Seoul Biennale of Architecture & Urbanism … beginning in 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023,
Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2017: Imminent commons : commoning cities, Edited by Helen Hejung Choi & Hyungmin Pai, Actar, NA2460.S4S466 2017; and Imminent commons : urban questions for the near future, Edited by Alejandro Zaera-Polo & Hyungmin Pai, Actar, NA2460.S4S465 2017
Space magazine (“Konggan”), published in Seoul since 1977. The Kappe Library has print copies from 2007.
Winstanley-Chesters, Robert, Environment, Politics, and Ideology in North Korea : Landscape As Political Project, Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2014 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Yim, Dongwoo, [UN]Precedented Pyongyang, Actar Publishers, HT147.K7Y56x 2016.
Yim, Seock Jae, Stone, walls and paths : a study of Korean Architecture, Ewha Woman’s University Press, TH2249.I6 2005.
Yim, Seock Jae, The Traditional space : a study of Korean architecture, Ewha Woman’s University Press, NA1560.Y567 2005.
An, Kyung & Kang Soojung (Editors), Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s, Guggenheim, N7365 .O28 2023
Benetton, Luciano, et al., North Korea : a unique country : contemporary artists from North Korea, Fondazione Imago Mundi, Luciano Benetton Collection, N7370.N67 2014
Choi, Jinhee. The South Korean Film Renaissance : Local Hitmakers, Global Provocateurs, Wesleyan University Press, 2010 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Choi, Suhi. Embattled Memories : Contested Meanings in Korean War Memorials, University of Nevada Press, 2014 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Chua, Beng Huat, & Koichi Iwabuchi (Editors), East Asian Pop Culture : Analysing the Korean Wave, Hong Kong University Press, 2008 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Frank, Rüdiger (Editor), Exploring North Korean Arts, Verlag für moderne Kunst, N7370 .E97 2011
The Global Impact of South Korean Popular Culture : Hallyu Unbound, Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2014 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Jang, Sang-hoon, A Representation of Nationhood in the Museum, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Kal, Hong, Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism : Spectacle, Politics and History, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011 (Available ProQuest Ebook Central)
Kim-Renaud, Young-Key. Creative Women of Korea: the Fifteenth Through the Twentieth Centuries : The Fifteenth Through the Twentieth Centuries, Taylor & Francis Group, 2003 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
"Korea," Grove Art Online, 2003.
Moon, Virginia (Editor), The Space Between: The Modern in Korean Art, LACMA, N7365 .S63 2022
Oh, Youjeong, Pop City : Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place, Cornell University Press, 2018 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Poole, Janet, When the Future Disappears : The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea, Columbia University Press, 2014 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Portal, Jane, Art under control in North Korea, Reaktion, N7370.P67 2005
Shin, Chi-Yun & Julian Stringer (Editors), New Korean Cinema, Edinburgh University Press, 2005 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Buzo, Adrian (Editor), Routledge Handbook of Contemporary North Korea, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Gelézeau, Valérie, et al. (Editors), De-Bordering Korea : Tangible and Intangible Legacies of the Sunshine Policy, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Kim, Monica, The interrogation rooms of the Korean War : the untold history, Princeton University Press, DS921 .K45 2019
The Korea Herald, "South Korea's largest English-language daily"
Moon, Chung-In & M. Jae Moon (Editors), Routledge Handbook of Korean Politics and Public Administration, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Park, Hyun Ok, The Capitalist Unconscious : From Korean Unification to Transnational Korea, Columbia University Press, 2015 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
The Pyongyang Times, "the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea's only English newspaper"
Wells, Kenneth M., Korea: Outline of a Civilisation, Brill, 2015 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
