Abstract

Urban and rural landscapes are tied to shifting modes of production and corresponding changes in social relations, and in South Korea are deeply entwined due to government development policies, including ecotourism. Ecotourism development often relies on a binary understanding of landscapes, and like all binaries, pre-modern and modern landscapes are inextricably interlinked. In this article, we examine the development of ecotourism on Jeju Island to discern how class struggles over material landscapes and discursively-produced, imaginary landscape ownership emerged through the creation of the Jeju Olle Trail, and how local people experienced individually and collectively the tensions of urban-centered modernization in South Korea that played out through ecotourism. We use the framework of political ecology to conceptualize class conflicts over material and imagined landscapes, specifically rural landscapes resulting from the uneven geographies of economic development of an Asian NIC (Newly Industrialized Country).

摘要

城乡景观与生产方式的变化以及社会关系的相应变化有关，在韩国，由于政府的发展政策（包括生态旅游）而深深地交织在一起。生态旅游的发展通常依赖于对景观的二元理解，并且像所有二进制文件一样，前现代景观与现代景观是密不可分的。在这篇文章中，我们考察了济州岛上的生态旅游的发展，以了解阶级如何在物质景观上挣扎和以话语方式生产的，虚构的景观所有权通过济州Olle小径的建立而出现，以及当地人如何个人和集体地体验到济州岛的紧张局势。通过生态旅游在韩国以城市为中心的现代化进程中发挥了作用。