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The Ondol Problem and the Politics of Forest Conservation in Colonial Korea

The Ondol Problem and the Politics of Forest Conservation in Colonial Korea This article examines the ondol—the cooking stove–cum–heated floor system conventional to Korean dwellings—as a site of contestation over forest management, fuel consumption, and domestic life in colonial Korea. At once a provider of heat essential to survival in an often frigid peninsula and, in the eyes of colonial officials, ground zero of deforestation, the ondol garnered tremendous interest from an array of reformers determined to improve the Korean home and its hearth. Foresters were but one party to a far-reaching debate (involving architects, doctors, and agronomists) over how best to domesticate heat in the harsh continental climate. By tracing the contours of this debate, this article elucidates the multitude of often-conflicting interests inherent to state-led interventions in household fuel economies: what the author calls the politics of forest conservation in colonial Korea. In focusing on efforts to regulate the quotidian rhythms of energy consumption, it likewise investigates the material underpinnings of everyday life—a topic hitherto overlooked in extant scholarship on forestry and empire alike. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Korean Studies Duke University Press

The Ondol Problem and the Politics of Forest Conservation in Colonial Korea

Fedman, David
Journal of Korean Studies , Volume 23 (1) – Mar 1, 2018
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Abstract

This article examines the ondol—the cooking stove–cum–heated floor system conventional to Korean dwellings—as a site of contestation over forest management, fuel consumption, and domestic life in colonial Korea. At once a provider of heat essential to survival in an often frigid peninsula and, in the eyes of colonial officials, ground zero of deforestation, the ondol garnered tremendous interest from an array of reformers determined to improve the Korean home and its hearth. Foresters were but one party to a far-reaching debate (involving architects, doctors, and agronomists) over how best to domesticate heat in the harsh continental climate. By tracing the contours of this debate, this article elucidates the multitude of often-conflicting interests inherent to state-led interventions in household fuel economies: what the author calls the politics of forest conservation in colonial Korea. In focusing on efforts to regulate the quotidian rhythms of energy consumption, it likewise investigates the material underpinnings of everyday life—a topic hitherto overlooked in extant scholarship on forestry and empire alike.

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Journal of Korean Studies – Duke University Press

Published: Mar 1, 2018

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  • Airin shisō no kōchō to shokurin jigyō no shinchoku o hakare
  • Transforming the Forests of a Counterfeit Nation: Japan’s ‘Manchu’ Nation in Northeast China
    Caffrey, Patrick J.
  • Chŏnsi ch’eje ha Ilche ŭi mulcha sugŭp mit t’ongje chŏngch’aek: Kyŏngsŏng ŭi sint’an sugŭp t’ongje rŭl chungsim ŭro
    Ch’oe, Pyŏngt’aek
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  • Shinrin to dōka
    Dōke, Atsuyuki
  • Geography’s Empire: Histories of Geographical Knowledge
    Driver, Felix
  • Wartime Forestry and the ‘Low Temperature Lifestyle’ Campaign in Late Colonial Korea, 1937–1945
    Fedman, David
  • Fuyu no Manshū ni ureshi, Shinshiki ondoru
  • Chōsen no ringyō
    Gotō, Fusaji
  • Uri nara ondol ŭi ihae
    Han, Hŭnggyo
  • Shintanrin no kaizō to seitan jigyō no kairyō shōrei ni tsuite
    Hayashi, Mitsuhiro
  • Assimilation’s Racializing Sensibilities: Colonized Koreans as Yobos and the ‘Yobo-ization’ of Japanese Settlers
    Henry, Todd
  • Sanitizing Empire: Japanese Articulations of Otherness and the Construction of Early Colonial Seoul
    Henry, Todd
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  • Jūtaku mondai
  • Airin undō no shakaika
    Kada, Naoji
  • Mokutan no zōsan taisaku
    Kakeba, Sadakichi
  • Ondoru no kairyō ni tsuite
    Kakeba, Sadakichi
  • Kakushu ondoru nenryō no zenryoku sokutei
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    Kim, Ŭnjŏng
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  • Munhwa saenghwal kwa chut’aek
    Kim, Yubang
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    Komeie, Taisaku
  • Nitobe Inazō no Chōsen bōkokuron
    Kwŏn, Sŏgyŏng
  • Protect the Pines, Punish the People: Forests and the State in Pre-industrial Korea, 918–1897
    Lee, John S.
  • Nōka no sanryō yori mitaru sanrin
  • Nenryō mondai kaiketsu to rentan
  • Nenryō to shōrai
  • Kishō to Chōsen no kenchikubutsu
    Ogawa, Hiromichi
  • Ondoru ni tsuite
    Okazaki, Tōmitsu
  • Ondol kwa chut’aek
  • Ondol ro inhan pŏmjoe
  • Ondol sok e kwŏnch’ong
  • Hoon’yō nenryō riyō mondai to ondoru sōchi
    Onodera, Heita
  • Ŭihaksang ŭro pon ondol
    Pak, Chongsŏk
  • Kajŏng kyemong p’yŏn, sallimsari tae kŏmt’o
    Pang, Chŏnghwan
  • State and Food in South Korea: Moulding the National Diet in Wartime and Beyond
    Park, Kyoung-Hee
  • Rinsan nenryō no setsuyaku aigo ni tsuite
    Ringyō, Shikenjo
  • Kankoku seifu jidai no rin’ya chōsa jigyō
    Saitō, Otosaku Sanrinkai, Chŏsen
  • Tropical Furniture and Bodily Comportment in Colonial Asia
    Sand, Jordan
  • Carbon Technocracy: East Asian Energy Regimes and the Industrial Modern, 1900–1957
    Seow, Victor
  • Keeping Warm in a Changing Place: Symbolism, Tradition, and Modernity in Domestic Lives on Ondol in the Twentieth Century
    Shin, Jung-hye
  • ‘Hibernate no more!’ Winter, Health, and the Great Outdoors
    Smith, Norman Smith, Norman
  • Ondol ŭn ŏnje ŏttŏk’e saenggyŏ nanna
    Son, Chinta’e
  • Ondol yech’an
    Son, Chinta’e
  • The Location of ‘Korean’ Culture: Ch’oe Chaesŏ and Korean Literature in a Time of Transition
    Suh, Serk-Bae
  • Chōsen ondoru to ringyō
    Suzuki, Toyokazu
  • Ondoru
    Takahashi, Kishichirō Shinkōkai, Doi Ringaku
  • Ondoru no kizukikata to nenryō (ichi)
    Takahashi, Kishichirō
  • Ondoru no kizukikata to nenryō (san)
    Takahashi, Kishichirō
  • Ondoru takiguchi kairyō no ichikōsatsu
    Takaichi, Keifuku
  • Yamato minzoku kanchi hattensaku
    Tamari, Kizō
  • A Sentimental Journey: Mapping the Interior Frontier of Japanese Settlers in Colonial Korea
    Uchida, Jun
  • Ondol
    Yi, Kwangsu
  • Fuel Prices, Regional Diets and Cooking Habits in the English Industrial Revolution (1750–1830)
    Zylberberg, David