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Socio-Technical History of Daily Life and Toilet of North Koreans: Relocation of People-Excreta-Toilet Network After a “March of Hardship”

  • The Journal of Northeast Asia Research
  • Abbr : NEA
  • 2022, 37(2), pp.263~303
  • DOI : 10.18013/jnar.2022.37.2.008
  • Publisher : The Institute for Northeast Asia Research
  • Research Area : Social Science > Political Science > International Politics > International Relations / Cooperation
  • Received : November 4, 2022
  • Accepted : December 19, 2022
  • Published : December 31, 2022

Park, Min ju 1

1동국대학교 북한학연구소

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ABSTRACT

This study attempted to examine the life of North Koreans in the toilet after the march of hardship from the perspective of technological social history and ANT. The results are as follows: First, the policy is designed to aim for supplier convenience rather than equality, but differential, and residents' position. Therefore, when related infrastructure such as electricity, distribution system, and water supply became paralyzed, the resident-toilet network was reorganized extensively. Second, 'water' in flush toilets and 'rules' in conventional communal toilets have significantly lost their translation ability. And, non-human actors drew embodied cognition through the senses of the people, triggering conflicts between the people. Third, as people interacted with non-human actors and reorganized the "modernity and hygiene" composed by the policy, the network was relocated from flush to conventional, and the sense of goods for wiping-excreta was also differentiated. Fourth, "revolution, politics" were projected into the daily life of feces, non-human actors such as feces achieved both restoration of governance and sculpture.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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