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Dr. Junsoo Kim

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Dr. Junsoo Kim WiMi

Postdoktorand, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter des Fachgebiets Anthropogeographie Anthropogeographie

Mail: junsoo.kim@geo.uni-halle.de Tel: +49 (0)345 55 26059 Raum: H4 2.24 Sprechzeiten: nach vorheriger Anmeldung über Stud.IP(in der vorlesungsfreien Zeit nur nach Vereinbarung)

Forschung

  • More-than-human geography and political ecology
  • State–Nature relationships/Critical Border Studies
  • Environmental governance in East Asia
  • Korean DMZ and inter-Korean borderlands
  • Urban Political Ecologies/Planetary Urbanization

 

Vita

Education

  • May 2026 – present. Postdoc in Human Geography, Institute of Geosciences and Geography, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.
  • Apr 2026 – title of the dissertation: „A Study ot the More-than-Human State: Geopolitical Ecologies of the Inter-Korean-Borderlands“ (defended with summa cum laude in April 2026)
  • Apr 2024 – Apr 2026. PhD Candidate in Human Geography, Institute of Geosciences and Geography, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.
  • Sep 2020 – Feb 2024. PhD Candidate, Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).
  • Feb 2019. M.A. Department of Sociology, Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea)
  • 2015-2017. Mandatory military service, Republic of Korea Army.
  • Feb 2015. B.A. Department of Sociology, Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea)


Academic Career

  • Aug 2024 – present. Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter. Department of Human Geography, Institute of Geosciences and Geography, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.
  • Sep 2020 – Feb 2024. Participating Researcher. Center for Anthropocene Studies, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
  • Oct 2019 – Aug 2020. Research Associate. Center for Asian Urban Society, Seoul National University.

Lehre

Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen finden Sie im Stud.IP.

Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Halle, Germany)

  • Human Geography 2: Method (Winter 2025/26) Lecture (Bachelor’s Course)
  • Understanding Global Change and International Areas: Key Concepts and Theories (Winter 2025/26) Lecture (Master Course)
  • Regional Geographies of Southeast Asia: Political, Cultural, and Economic Geographies (Summer 2025) Lecture (Master Course)
  • Global and Regional Geographies: An Overview (Summer 2025) Lecture (Master Course)
  • Political Geographies of South and East Asia (Winter 2024/25) Lecture (Master Course)

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Daejeon, South Korea)

  • Reading Great Books on Human Intelligence and Civilization: Society (Autumn, 2023) Teaching Assistant (Bachelor’s Course)
  • Reading Great Books on Human Intelligence and Civilization: Society (Spring, 2022) Teaching Assistant (Bachelor’s Course)


Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea)

  • Urban Space and Society (Autumn, 2018) Teaching Assistant (Bachelor’s Course)
  • Special Lecture in Sociology (Spring, 2018) Teaching Assistant (Bachelor’s Course)
  • Sociological Writing (Spring, 2018) Teaching Assistant (Bachelor’s Course)
  • Human Rights and Society (Autumn, 2017) Teaching Assistant (Bachelor’s Course)
  • Urban Space and Everyday Life (Spring, 2017) Teaching Assistant (Bachelor’s Course)

Publikationen

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

  • Kim, J. S. & Everts, J. 2025. “Can Mosquitoes (de)border? Geopolitical Ecologies of Malaria in the Inter-Korean Borderlands.” The Professional Geographer. 77(6): 656-670. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2025.2565471
  • Kim, J. S. 2024. “The Politics of Pine Tree Diseases: Interspecies Politics in the Inter-Korea Borderland.” Die Erde: Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin. 155(3-4): 49-65. https://doi.org/10.12854/erde-2024-706
  • Kim, J. S., Lee, S.O., 2024. “Fragmented, Materialized, Militarized Geopolitics of Wildfires in the Inter-Korean Border.” Geoforum. 155, 104077. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104077
  • Kim S. H., Han Y., Kim, J. S., Park, B.S., Park, S. Y., 2024. “US Military Topographic Maps of Korea during the Korean Military Government Era (1945-1948): History, Cartographic Style, and Historical Geographical Data Resource.” Journal of the Korean Research Association of Old Maps. 16(1): 77-96. 22787/oldmap.2024.16.1.004 (In Korean)
  • Kim J. S., Choi M.A., and Park B.S.,2021. “Changing Geographical Imaginations of the Polar Regions: From Terra Incognita to the Frontiers of the Anthropocene.” Journal of the Korean Geographical Society. 56(6): 585-605. 22776/KGS.2021.56.6.585 (In Korean)
  • Kim J. S., “Biopolitics of Invasive Species and More-than-human Biosecurity in South Korea: A case study of Procambarus clarkii and Onto-politics of Ecological Disturbance Species.” Economy and Society. 132: 208-249. 10.18207/criso.2021..132.208 (In Korean)
  • Kim J. S., 2021. “Special Issue Editorial: Politics of Vertical Space in East-Asia.” Space and Environment. 31(1): 4-14. 19097/kaser.2021.31.1.4 (In Korean)
  • Kim J. S., Choi M.A., and Park B.S., 2020. “Anthropocenic Nature in the Pandemic: Social Distancing and the ‘More-than-Human’ Biopolitics.” Space and Environment. 30(4): 51-84. 19097/kaser.2020.30.4.51 (In Korean)
  • Kim J. S., 2019. “Pig War: Toward the More-than-human Territoriality through African Swine Fever.” Journal of Cultural and Historical Geography. 31(3): 41-60. https://www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/ci/sereArticleSearch/ciSereArtiView.kci?sereArticleSearchBean.artiId=ART002544988 (In Korean)
  • Kim J. S., 2018. “The Production of Han-River: South Korea’s Developmental Urbanization and More-than-Human Waterscape.” Space and Environment. 29(67): 94-158. 19097/kaser.2019.29.1.93 (In Korean)
  • Sonn J, W., Kim, J. S., Choi, H.J., 2019. “The Regionalisation of the Counter Hegemon: Response to Hassink, Gong and Marques.” International Journal of Urban Sciences. 23(2): 177-180. https://doi.org/10.1080/12265934.2018.1538813
  • Kim J. S., 2018. “S. Korea’s Developmental Urbanization and Reshaping of ‘State-Nature’ Relations: Affective Governance of Urban Pigeons.” Space and Environment. 28(63): 55-100. 19097/kaser.2018.28.1.55 (In Korean)
  • Wang, H.S., & Kim, J. S., „Politics of Identity and the Korean Developmental State: Nationalist Discourses of Korean-Japanese Businessmen and their Recognition Struggles during the Park Chung-Hee Regime.“ Economy and Society. 107: 244-286. https://10.18207/criso.2015..107.244 (In Korean)

 

Book Chapters

  • Kim J, S. (forthcoming). “Thinking through Pine Tree Disease: Interspecies Geopolitics in the Inter-Korea Borderland.” In “Detours Korea” (Duke University Press) edited volume with other authors.
  • Kim J, S. 2022. “Living with Alien: Critical Thought of Ecological Imagination” in <Culture/Science> 111: 100-116. Monnhwagwahak Press: Seoul. (In Korean)
  • Kim J, S. 2022. “The Fieldwork of a Social Scientist Who Ended Up in Antarctica by Accident.” In “Science Magazine EPI. Eum Press: Seoul. (In Korean)
  • Kim J, S. “More-than-human City: Planetary Urbanization and Seoul Anthropocene.” In “Hybrid City Seoul.” Seoul Metropolitan Government: Seoul. (In Korean)
  • Kim J, S. 2020. “More-than-human World” in “Museum for Everyone, Museum for Dog.” National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea: Seoul. (In Korean)
  • Kim J, S. 2019. “Turn, Disturbance, Translation and Nam June Paik’s Political Ecology” in “Media Ecology: Revisiting TV Garden.” NJP Reader 9. Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation: Gyeonggi-do. (In Korean)
  • Kim J, S. 2019. “Re-reading State Space in the Anthropocene.” <Culture/Science> 97:81-102. Monnhwagwahak Press: Seoul. (In Korean)

 

Book Reviews

    Vorträge

    Presentations & Invited Talk (Selected)

    • Feb 2025. “Can Mosquitoes (de)border?: Geopolitical Ecologies of Inter-Korean Borderlands.” EARCAG (East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography) (Fukuoka, Japan).
    • Nov 2023. “Interrogating More-than-human Biosecurity in Species on the Move: A Story from Guppy” Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) (Honolulu, USA)
    • Nov 2023. “The Interspecies Politics in the Inter-Korea Borderland” The 9th International Symposium on Environmental Sociology in East Asia (ISESEA-9) (Yokohama, Japan).
    • Nov 2022. “Social-Material Politics of Sand in the Korean Peninsula,” Society for the History of Technology (New Orleans, USA).
    • Feb 2022. “A story of crayfish in South Korea: Ontological politics of invasive species and more-than-human biosecurity” AAG (American Association of Geographers) Annual Meeting (New York, USA).
    • Oct 2020. “Variegated turn(s) in the more-than-human world: Toward the new political ecology of ‘state-nature’ relations in the DMZ.” DEEPEN (Development, Environment, and Peace Nexus), Peace Making in Borderlands. (Cheorwon, Korea) South Korea Government.
    • Dec 2018. “S. Korea’s Developmental Urbanization and Birth of State-Nature: Miracle of Han-river and Urban Political Ecological Challenges.” EARCAG (East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography) (Daegu, Korea).
    • Apr 2018. “Mobilized Pigeons: S. Korea’s Developmental Mega-Event and its Appropriation of Nature.” AAG (American Association of Geographers) Annual Meeting (New Orleans, USA).
    • Sep 2017. “Developmental-Neoliberal Urban Space and its Informal Actors: New Conflict and the Spatial Struggle of Seoul’s Street Vendors.” ISA-RC21 (International Association of Sociology) RC21 (Leeds, UK).