Sooah Kwak

Sooah Kwak is a researcher in anthropology and museum professional. Her current research is on leprosy settlement villages in South Korea.

Sooah is a contract Research Scholar at the American Museum of Natural History. Previously, she worked on project Eternal Testimony, an AI archive of Korean “comfort women” oral histories. Sooah holds an MA in Museum Anthropology from Columbia University and a BA in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) and BAS in Art and Technology from Sogang University.

Sooah is also an multimedia artist-activist. Creative projects have been exhibited internationally.

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sooah.k [at] columbia [dot] edu

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Sooah Kwak

is a researcher in anthropology and museum professional. Her current research is on leprosy settlement villages in South Korea.

Contact

sooah.k [at] columbia [dot] edu

Entangled Biosecurity

Entangled Biosecurity is a multispecies ethnography of Wanggung, Iksan City, South Korea. In Wanggung, where people affected by leprosy were quarantined and encouraged into state-sanctioned pig farming, multiple ontological enactments of human and animal bodies, diseases, and waste arise. By examining different modes of biosecurity measures taken for leprosy, COVID-19, and foot and mouth disease, this presentation examines the way in which care and control coexist within the territorial containers designed for disease and waste control.

American Anthropological Association
2024 Annual Conference: Praxis

11/20/2024 - 11/24/2024

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