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This photo collection examines how transnational adoption has been used in three major time periods in South Korea: first, during the rebuilding period after the Korean War through to get rid of the problem of mixed-race children born to Korean women and fathered by UN soldiers; second, to remove the social welfare burden of children born into poverty during the economic development frenz of the 1960s and 1970s; and finally, from the 1980s and still today, to eliminate the problem of unwed mothers in order to protect the hegemonic two-parent heterosexual family form in contemporary South Ko

 I am interested in studying the embodied and affective manifestations of climate change in addition to evaluating the landscapes and environments that are also viewed as embodying the changes of climate change. My interests therefore lie within the human-non-human networks of affective entanglements. In going forward with visualizing this project, I will be building upon my past preliminary research done in Coamiles, Nayarit, Mexico with ejidatarios.