Colonialism, Han, and the Transformative Spirit / Grace Ji-Sun Kim
Abstract
Grace Ji-Sun Kim is a bold and eloquent writer. In this book, two issues disturb her: colonialism and its legacy, and an eco-system in crisis. Writing from an affluent North-American context, Kim derides a life-style of consumerism, which once through deliberate empire-building exploited the developing world, and now continues to manipulate it through economic means. The prevailing capitalist system, which structures the global political economy, homogenizes our world. A resentment is present both within those who are the victims of these imposed forms of labour, production, consumption, and exchange, and also within a burdened environment. This is han, a person in pain, the earth-soul wounded. Liberation from han is equity, sufficiency, harmony and an eradication of the exploitation of persons and nature.Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this Journal.
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