in progress: Book Project
Queer unification:
Community and healing in the korean diaspora
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My first book, Queer Unification: Community and Healing in the Korean Diaspora, re-imagines Korean unification as decolonial sovereignty emerging from transnational grassroots organizing.
I argue that queer diasporic Koreans' community practices enable "geopolitical healing" as embodied relationships of belonging and accountability. |
publications
"Archipelagic Feeling: Counter-Mapping Indigeneity and Diaspora in the Trans-Pacific" In Stephens, Michelle and Martínez-San Miguel, Yolanda (Eds.). 2020. Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking: Towards New Comparative Methodologies and Disciplinary Formations. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield. |
"Unmaking Borders to Demilitarize Peace: A Zainichi Korean Experience" Social Text Periscope: Korea and Demilitarized Peace. 2018. |
"Disaster Justice: Mobilizing Grassroots Knowledge Against Disaster Nationalism in Japan" In Jolivétte, Andrew (Ed.). 2015. Research Justice: Methodologies for Social Change. Bristol: Policy Press. "I was fascinated by...Eda’s story of how natural disasters can exacerbate structural inequalities in society." - Dr. Helen Kara Winner of 2014 Phillips G. Davies Graduate Student Paper Award, National Association for Ethnic Studies |
"Louisiana Creoles and Latinidad: Locating Culture and Community" In Adekunle, Julius O. and Williams, Hettie V. (Eds.). 2013. Converging Identities: Blackness in the Contemporary African Diaspora. Durham: Carolina Academic Press. *Co-authored with Andrew Jolivétte |
"Intimate Agency: A Radical Sexual Revolution" In Garcia, Noemi de Haro and Tseliou, Maria-Anna (Eds.). 2013. Gender and Love: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Leiden: Brill. |
paper Awards
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Matilda White Riley Qualifying Paper Award Department of Sociology, Rutgers University, 2018 Paper title: "Contention and Coalition: Imagining Korean Unification through Queer Diaspora" |
Phillips G. Davies Graduate Student Paper Award
National Association for Ethnic Studies, 2014 Paper title: "Disaster Justice Feat. Research Justice" |
