Base Encounters: The US Armed Forces in South Korea
Knowledge and Power in an Overheated World
Books
2016. Base Encounters. The US Armed Forces in South Korea. London: Pluto Press.
2016. Identity Destabilised: Living in an overheated world (editor, together with Thomas Hylland Eriksen). London: Pluto Press.
2006. Hinüberschauen und Wegsehen. Bad Radkersburg: Wissenschaftliche Schriftreihe des Pavelhauses (Volume 10).
Journal Articles
2023. Baumer Escobar, V., Schober, E., Sibilia, E., Poulimenakos, G., & Høyer Leivestad, H. The Crisis of Movement: Making and Remaking Global Supply Chains in Container Ports. Anthropologica, 65(1). https://doi.org/10.18357/anthropologica65120232609
2022. "Past the Canal. An Anthropology of Maritime Passages". (together with Hege Høyer Leivestad, introduction to essay collection). In History and Anthropology.
2022. “Container Ships: Life Cycles, Chains of Value, and Labor in Maritime Logistics». (together with Camelia Dewan and Johanna Markkula). In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Pp. 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.374
2021. "Politics of Scale: Colossal Containerships and the Crisis in Global Shipping" (together with Hege Høyer Leivestad). in Anthropology Today. 37:3. Pp. 3-7.
2021. "Building Ships While Breaking Apart. Container economies and the limits of chaebol capitalism." in Focaal. 89. pp. 12-24. https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/focaal/2021/89/fcl890102.xml
2019. “Riding Unstable Currents: South Korean capital’s migration to the Philippines.” In Rivista degli Studi Orientali.
2019. "Precarity, by comparison: The uncertain transnationalisation of labor politics between Korea and the Philippines". In Dialectical Anthropology. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10624-018-9537-2
2018. “Working(wo)man’s suicide. South Korea’s ‘Hope-Bus’ Movement and its Repercussions for Labour in the Philippines.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, pp. 134-147. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9655.12804
2018. “Economies of Growth or Ecologies of Survival” (Introduction to Special Issue, with Thomas Hylland Eriksen). In Ethnos. Journal of Anthropology.83(3), pp. 415-422. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00141844.2016.1169201
2018. “Between a Rock and a Stormy Place. Land and Labour in the Philippines.” In Ethnos. Journal of Anthropology. 83(3), pp. 473-488. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00141844.2016.1169204
2017. "Waste and the Superfluous". (Introduction to Special Issue, with Thomas Hylland Eriksen). In Social Anthropology / Anthropologie Sociale. 25(3), pp. 282-287.
2016. "Building a City. Korean Capitalists and Navy Nostalgia in “Overheated” Subic Bay". In History and Anthropology. 25(5), pp. 488- 503. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02757206.2016.1222525
2014. “Itaewon's suspense: masculinities, place-making and the US Armed Forces in a Seoul entertainment district” In Social Anthropology / Anthropologie Sociale, 22:1, pp. 36-51 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1469-8676.12060
2011. “Vil(l)e Encounters. The US Armed Forces in Korea and Entertainment Districts in and near Seoul.” In Korea. Politics, Economy and Society (Korea Yearbook, Vol. 5), pp. 207-232.
Book chapters
2022. “Working the Supply Chain: Towards an Anthropology of Maritime Logistics.” In The Handbook of the Anthropology of Labor.Edited by Sharryn Kasmir and Leslie Gill. London: Routledge.
2018. "Destabilizing the European Austerity Debate via an Asian Detour. Lessons from Labour in Post-Crisis South Korea." In Austerity. The View from Anthropology. Edited by Theodoros Rakopoulos. London: Berghahn Press, pp. 115-129.
2018. “In/determined Labour. Boundary Dislocations around Waste, Value and Work in Subic Bay (Philippines).” In Indeterminacy: Essays on Waste, Value and the Imagination. Edited by Catherine Alexander and Andrew Sanchez. London: Berghahn, pp. 161-180.
2018. “The (Un-)Making of Labour. Capitalist Accelerations and their Human Toll at a South Korean shipyard in the Philippines.” In Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism. Edited by Chris Hann and Jonathan Parry. London: Berghahn Press, pp. 197-217.
2017. “Building a city: Korean capitalists and navy nostalgia in ‘overheated’ Subic Bay.” In An overheated world. An anthropological history of the early twenty-first century. Edited by Thomas Hylland Eriksen. London: Routledge.
2016. “Introduction. The Art of Belonging to an Overheated World.” (together with Thomas Hylland Eriksen). In Identity Destabilised: Living in an overheated world. Edited by Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Elisabeth Schober. London: Pluto Press, pp. 1-19.
2016. “Indigenous Endurance amidst Accelerated Change? The U.S. Navy, South Korean Shipbuilders and the Aeta of Subic Bay (Philippines).” In Identity Destabilised: Living in an overheated world. Edited by Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Elisabeth Schober. London: Pluto Press, pp.135-152.
2014. “’The colonized bodies of our women…’ Imaginative and Material Terrains of U.S. Military Entertainment on the Fringes of South Korea.” In Gender and Conflict: Embodiments, Discourses and Symbolic Practices. Edited by Frerks, Georg; Reinhilde König, and Annelou Ypelj, Farnham: Ashgate (“Gender in a global / local world” series).
2007. "Worüber man (nicht) reden kann..." in Grenzen und Differenzen. Zur Macht sozialer und kultureller Grenzziehungen. Edited by Thomas Hengartner and Johannes Moser. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag.
Non-Refereed Articles
2013. „Internationaler Tag der Migranten. Forderungen der Migrant Trade Union.“ In Korea Forum 1+2/2012, pp. 16-17.
2013. „Zum 1000. Mal – ehemalige „Trostfrauen“ geben nicht auf.“ In Korea Forum 1+2/2012, pp. 113-114.
„2013. „‚Massenentlassungen toeten!‘ Belegschaft des Automobilkonzerns SsangYong kaempft weiter.“ In Korea Forum 1+2/2012, pp. 115.
2013. „Südkoreanischer Twitter-User. Bis zu sieben Jahre Haft drohen wegen Kurzmeldungen ueber Nordkorea.“ Korea Forum 1+2/2012, pp. 119-121.
2012. “Ein Dorf im Belagerungszustand: Gewaltfreier Widerstand gegen U.S.-Militarisierung in Gangjeong, Südkorea“. In iz3w (Juli / August 2012), pp. 18-19.
2012. “Von Camptown in die City. Seoul und das US-Militärkontingent in Südkorea“. In Korea Info Nr. 16 (Januar), pp. 3-14.
2011. “Um die Grenze intakt zu halten… Der Kriegsdienstverweigerer Ahn Jeehwan”. In Koreaforum 1+2 / 2011, pp. 34-37.
2010. „Camptown-Frauen. U.S.-Militarismus, Migration und Prostitution in Südkorea.“ In Koreaforum 1+2 / 2010, pp. 55-58.
2010. „Entmilitarisierte Zone. Reflexionen über den Grenzraum Korea.“ [in German and Slovene] in Signal 2010/11, pp. 247-254.
2009. “Militarizált férfiasság-játék - Itaewon szórakozónegyed, Dél-Korea” [in Hungarian; “Militarized Masculinities at Play – the Itaewon Entertainment District of Seoul, South Korea”]. In anBlokk. 3.
2007. “Über das redet kein Mensch“ – Die Ausgesiedelten aus dem Apaško polje / Abstaller Feld.” in Blätter für Heimatkunde. 81:4, pp. 122-130.
2005. "Scheinbar entgrenzt. Grenz-Erinnerungen anlässlich der EU-Erweiterung 2004 an der südoststeirischen / nordslowenischen Grenze" in Kuckuck 1/ 2005, Jg. 20, pp. 10-16.
2005. "'Man sieht schön hinüber.' Erinnern und Vergessen an der slowenischsteirischen Grenze anlässlich der EU-Erweiterung" [In German and Slovene], in: Signal 2005/06, pp.165-183.
Review Articles and Reviews
2016. "Of dispossessions and reclamations: Anthropology in the time of crisis". (on James G. Carrier and Don Kalb's "Anthropologies of class", and Sharryn Kasmir and August Carbonella's "Blood and fire."). In Focaal.
2014. „Getting Rid of Ourselves?“ (on Saskia Sassen’s “Expulsions. Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy“). In European Journal of Sociology, 55:3, pp. 413 – 418.
2010. “Subverting the Military Normal” (On The Bases of Empire. Edited by Catherine Lutz, 2009; and The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual, 2009) in Focaal Nr. 58/2010, pp. 109-114.
2007. "Trafficking - What is that?" (On Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered, edited by Kamala Kempadoo, 2005; and Sex Trafficking by Katherine Farr, 2005) In Focaal Nr. 49/2007, pp. 124-128.
2007. “Comparing Europe’s Neo-Nationalists”. (On Gingrich, Andre and Marcus Banks (eds.). 2006. Neo-Nationalism in Europe & Beyond. Perspectives from Anthropology. New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books; and Gingrich, Andre and Richard G. Fox (eds.). 2002. Anthropology, by Comparison. London and New York: Routledge.) In Focaal Nr. 50/2007, pp. 170-173.