Infrastructures of the Anthropocene and Imperial Infrastructure and Spatial Resistance in Colonial Literature, 1880–1930
Two titles from the Mobility Humanities Series published by KU Academy of Mobility Humanities (AMH) have been selected for the 2026 Sejong Books (Academic Category), organized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea.
The Sejong Books selects outstanding academic and general interest publications for distribution to public libraries and other institutions, with the aim of promoting knowledge dissemination and reading culture. This year, a total of 345 titles were selected in the academic category across ten disciplines, including the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
The selected titles from AMH are as follows:
■ Mobility Humanities Series: Assemblage
Infrastructures of the Anthropocene (2025)
This volume examines the crisis of the Anthropocene from the perspective of infrastructure and explores the possibility of a shift from anthropocentric to post-anthropocentric infrastructure. By extending the scope of infrastructure to the environment, the planet, and digital media, the book moves beyond the binaries of nature/culture and human/nonhuman to consider new forms of relations and responsibility through which humans and nonhumans coexist.
- Authors: Taehee Kim, Ilman Choe, Hyowon Sim, Heewon Kim, Seongeun Kim, Bongjun Go, Inho Choi, Seongwoo Park, Eunju Kim, Soyoung Kim
■ Mobility Humanities Series: Interconnect
Imperial Infrastructure and Spatial Resistance in Colonial Literature, 1880–1930 (2025)
This volume analyzes the relationship between imperial infrastructure and spatial resistance through colonial literature written between 1880 and 1930. Using “infrastructural reading” to examine representations of infrastructure such as roads and railways in literary texts, the book traces the material and spatial power of empire and the diverse forms of resistance to it. It also considers how the global expansion of infrastructure was connected to the growing instability and eventual disintegration of the British Empire.
- Dominic Davies’s Imperial Infrastructure and Spatial Resistance in Colonial Literature, 1880–1930 (Peter Lang, 2017) was translated by Taehee Kim, HK Professor at AMH, and Taehan Kim.
The selection reflects the research achievements of AMH in the field of Infrastructure Humanities. AMH will continue to examine a wide range of issues surrounding mobility and infrastructure from humanities perspectives and to promote the wider dissemination and sharing of its research.