The Review of Korean Studies
- P-ISSN1229-0076
- E-ISSN2773-9351
- SCOPUS, ESCI
ISSN : 1229-0076
The Cultural Politics of Place Names in Korea: Contestation of Place Names’ Territories and Construction of Territorial Identity
Abstract
The geopolitical location of the Korean peninsula is often considered to be a borderland or a buffer zone, providing conditions for the dynamics of cultural diversity and power struggles throughout its long history. In addition, the historical separation of the written (Chinese) language from the spoken (Korean) language in daily life has produced numerous examples of overlapping place names that identify the same site concurrently. Study of this unique situation within which Korean place names lie is thought to be better suited to the perspective of cultural politics. In this context, this paper aims to examine diverse cases connected with cultural-political transformation behind Korean place names, focusing on the elements of ideology, identity, power, and territory. This examination details the process of cultural politics, wherein a social group would only include the self-identity within its own territory while excluding the other from its own territory. In particular, the field work, aided by written documents, unveils the history that the contestation or contention among the territories of place names ended with the growth of territoriality by a dominant social group in order to consolidate its own territorial identity.
- keywords
- cultural politics, cultural geography, place names, contesting place names, territories of place names, territoriality, territorial identity.
Reference
Baldwin, E., B. Longhurst, G. Smith, and S. McCracken. 2004. Cultural studies. New York: Prentice Hall.
Cheongyang gunji pyeonchan wiwonhoe. 2005. Cheongyang gunji. Cheongyang: Cheongyang guncheong.
Chi, Heon-yeung. 2001. Hanguk jimyeongui jemunje (Studies on the place names of Korea). Seoul: Kyeongin munhwasa.
Cho, Ju-kwan. 2002. Eoneoui gusimryeokgwa wonsimryeok (Centripetal force and centrifugal force in Bakhtin’s Philosophy of language). Seonggok nonchong 33:329-389.
Chung, Jinyoung. 1999. Joseon sidae hyangchon sahoesa (The social history of the rural communities in the Joseon period). Seoul: Hangilsa.
Chungnamdae maeul yeongudan. 2006. Yeongi sorol maeul. Seoul: Daewonsa.
Daejeon sisa pyeonchan wiwonhoe. 1994. Daejeon jimyeongji. Daejeon: Daejeon jikhalsi.
Gongjudae bangmulgwan. 1988. Yeongigun chunghyoyeol yujeok. Yeonggi: Yeonggi guncheong.
Hangeul hakhoe. 1974. Hanguk jimyeong chongram: Chungnam pyeon. Seoul: Hangeul hakhoe.
Jeon, Jong-Han. 2002. Jongjok jipdanui geojuji idonggwa jiyeokhwa gwajeong (Migration and regionalization of the lineage group in Korea). Ph.D. diss., Korea National University of Education.
Jochiwon munhwawon. 2007. Yeongigunui jimyeong yurae. Jochiwon munhwawon.
Kim, Sun-Bae. 2004. Jimyeong byeoncheonui jiyeokjeok yoine gwanhan yeongu (A study of the regional factors of the formation and changes of place names). Master’s thesis, Korea National University of Education.
Kim, Sun-Bae. 2009. Hanguk jimyeongui munhwa jeongchijeok byeoncheone gwanhan yeongu (A study of the cultural politics of place names in Korea). Ph.D. diss., Korea National University of Education.
Kim, Sun-Bae and Je-Hun Ryu. 2008. Hanguk jimyeongui munhwa jeongchijeok yeongurl wihan ironui guseong (A theoretical construction for the cultural-political study of place names in Korea). Journal of the Korean Geographical Society 43(4): 599-619.
Lee, Hae-Jun. 2000. 17 segi jungyeop papyeong yunssi nojongpaui jongyakgwa gonhak. Chungbuk sahak 11:331-350.
Lee, Jung-Woo. 1999. 17-18 segi jaeji nosoronui bunjaenggwa seowon geolripui seonggyeok. Jindan hakbo 88:209-229.
Mitchell, D. 2000. Cultural geography: A critical introduction. Oxford: Blackwell.
Nam, Pung-Hyun. 1981. Chaja pyogibeop yeongu. Seoul: Dangukdae chulpanbu.
Nonsan muhwawon. 1994. Nosan jiyeokui jimyeong yurae. Nonsan: Nosan muhwawon.
Sack, R.D. 1986. Human territoriality: Its theory and history, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Schiller, N.G. 1997. Cultural Politics and the Politics of Culture. Identities 4(1): 1-7.
Toh, Soo-hee. 2003. Hangukui jimyeong (The place names of Korea). Seoul: Akanet.
Voloshinov, V.N. 1973. Marxism and the Philosophy of Language, New York and London: Seminar Press.
Yeongi gungi pyeonchan wiwonhoe. 2007. Yeongi gungi. Yeongi: Yeongi guncheong.
Yun, Seok-Chan. 2005. Nosansi noseongmyeon hyangtoji. Nonsan: Hyangtoji balgan wiwonhoe.
- Downloaded
- Viewed
- 0KCI Citations
- 0WOS Citations