Base Encounters: The Us Armed Forces in South Korea

by Elisabeth Schober

Base Encounters explores the social friction that US bases have caused in South Korea, where nearly 30,000 US soldiers remain stationed. Crimes committed in GI entertainment areas have been amplified by an outraged public as both a symbol for--and a symptom of--the uneven relationship between the United States and the small East Asian nation. Elisabeth Schober's excellent ethnographic history scrutinises these controversial zones of encounter...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745336051
• ISBN13: 9780745336053
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.4"