Introduction “Whan that Apriil with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote… So priketh hem nature in hir corages; Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages…” Geoffrey Chaucer – The Canterbury Tales – (General Prologue 2005,1387).   Geoffrey Chaucer’s fifteenth century narrative of pilgrims en-route to Thomas a Beckett’s shrine…Read more Rematerializing the Political Past: The Annual Schoolchildren’s March and North Korean Invented Traditions

Introduction “Whan that Apriil with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote… So priketh hem nature in hir corages; Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages…” (Geoffrey Chaucer – The Canterbury Tales – General Prologue, 1387/2005) Geoffrey Chaucer’s 15th century narrative of pilgrims en-route to Thomas a Beckett’s shrine at…Read more Rematerializing the Political Past: The Annual Schoolchildren’s March and North Korean Invented Traditions

This is a pre-publication, pre-final edit and pre-copy setting and type setting version of this paper and is substantially different from the published version. Interested readers can find the final published version as an article in the Asian Perspective journal, Volume 40 (3): 393-414 http://journals.rienner.com/doi/pdf/10.5555/0258-9184-40.3.393 Charisma in a Watery Frame: North Korean Narrative Topographies and…Read more Charisma in a Watery Frame: Narrative Topographies, Re and De-Territorialization and North Korea’s Northern Rivers