Biography
사회인류학을 전공했다. 초기 연구는 사회주의 사회의 실증적 연구에 초점을 두고 구소련 중앙아시아의 비사회주의 농업경제와 구소련 극동시베리아 지역의 수렵 사회를 배경으로 사회주의 정치경제체제와 원주민들의 환경과 생태 의식 사이의 갈등을 다루었다. 구소련 붕괴이후에는 현존하는 사회주의 사회 연구에서 벗어나서 좀더 넓은 역사적 지평에서 아시아의 냉전 경험에 집중해 왔다. 현재 분단과 전쟁이 야기한 한국사회의 종교적 지평에서의 변화에 관한 저서를 탈고하고, 탈냉전 시대 아시아의 변화를 비교지역연구의 시각으로 접근하는 저서를 집필 중이다. 장차 초기 연구 관심이었던 환경의 정치사에 다시 관심을 두고, 메가아시아의 틀에서 냉전의 환경사와 지구환경 담론에서 아시아의 입지에 관한 연구를 진행할 예정에 있다.
Heonik Kwon specializes in Social Anthropology. His early research had a focus on empirical research within socialist societies, investigating the non-socialist agricultural economies of Central Asia and hunter-gatherer societies in Far Eastern Siberia, both under Soviet Russian governance. He explored the tensions between the socialist political-economic system’s conceptions of the environment and ecology and those of people indigenous to those regions. After the collapse of Soviet Russia, his research purview expanded beyond present-day socialist societies, towards a broader historical perspective focused on experiences of the Cold War in Asia. He has completed a manuscript on the changes in religious beliefs in modern Korean society, a society partitioned as a result of war, and is currently undertaking comparative regional research on changes in post-Cold War Asia. In the future he intends to return to his early research interest, the political history of the environment, with plans to use the lens of Mega-Asia to examine Asia’s perspectives on the environmental history of the Cold War and discussions of the global environment.
Heonik Kwon specializes in Social Anthropology. His early research had a focus on empirical research within socialist societies, investigating the non-socialist agricultural economies of Central Asia and hunter-gatherer societies in Far Eastern Siberia, both under Soviet Russian governance. He explored the tensions between the socialist political-economic system’s conceptions of the environment and ecology and those of people indigenous to those regions. After the collapse of Soviet Russia, his research purview expanded beyond present-day socialist societies, towards a broader historical perspective focused on experiences of the Cold War in Asia. He has completed a manuscript on the changes in religious beliefs in modern Korean society, a society partitioned as a result of war, and is currently undertaking comparative regional research on changes in post-Cold War Asia. In the future he intends to return to his early research interest, the political history of the environment, with plans to use the lens of Mega-Asia to examine Asia’s perspectives on the environmental history of the Cold War and discussions of the global environment.