Life Adrift, one of the Interconnect series published by the Academy of Mobility Humanities, has been selected as a recommended book for the “2024 Sejong Book Academic Field.”
The Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea runs an annual program to select and support outstanding books. This year’s “2024 Sejong Books Academic Support Program” received 2,399 submissions across 10 categories, with 363 books selected as recommended books.
Dr. Jiyoun Choi, an English literature scholar, translated Life Adrift (2019), a compilation of humanities and social science journals on climate change and migration by Professor Andrew Baldwin from Durham University’s Department of Human Geography and Lecturer Giovanni Bettini from Lancaster University.
Life Adrift is a book that critically examines migration and climate change, two of the most important issues in today’s global political economy, from perspectives including politics, philosophy, media, art, and literature. The book approaches climate change and migration not as separate issues requiring technical and specialized solutions, but as interconnected issues requiring theoretical and historical explanation. The authors reconceptualize migration and environmental changes as sites of political possibility, exploring a wide range of contemporary topics in cultural and political theory including democracy, place, neoliberalism, humanism, affect, and race. Meanwhile, the Academy of Mobility Humanities has been publishing annual research series (Assemblages), general education series (Engagement), and translation series (Interconnection) since its establishment in 2018. This year’s selection for the “Sejong Book Academic Field” marks their fifth recommended book, following two books in 2021 (Alienation and Acceleration, Being and Motion) and another two in 2022 (Pandemic Mobility Technology, In the Meantime).
