Environment, Politics, and Ideology in North Korea: Landscape as Political Project- Book Review (original) (raw)

Environment, Politics, and Ideology in North Korea could very well become a landmark geographical publication in the environmental humanities. Stimulating ideas and approaches of two well-known British "new" cultural geographers, Denis Cosgrove (social formation and symbolic landscape) and Noel Castree (social nature), have clearly inspired and informed Robert Winstanley-Chesters, the author of this volume. For the purposes of my review, I compress their like-minded and complementary theoretical trailblazing on geographical relations between cultural and nature to this notion: A natural environment manifesting as visible landscape can be critically engaged as both "ideological concept" and "social construction."