Robert Winstanley-Chesters

Dr Robert Winstanley-Chesters is a Lecturer and Visiting Fellow at Bath Spa University and at the University of Leeds, a Member of Wolfson College, University of Oxford and the Managing Editor of the European Journal of Korean Studies. Robert has previously worked at Birkbeck, University of London, Australian National University, College of Asia and the Pacific and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow of Cambridge University (Beyond the Korean War). Robert grew up in Hamburg, New York, Beijing and London and originally studied Theology at the University of Edinburgh. Robert obtained his second masters and doctorate from the University of Leeds with the Thesis “Ideology and the Production of Landscape in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea”, published as “Environment, Politics and Ideology in North Korea: Landscape as Political Project” in 2014. Robert’s second monograph "Fish, Fishing and Community in North Korea and Neighbours" was published by Springer in 2019 and his third monograph “New Goddess of Mount Paektu: Myth and Transformation in North Korean Landscape” will be published in June 2020 by Black Halo via Amazon KDP. Robert is also a contributor to and co-editor of the edited volume "Change and Continuity in North Korean Politics" published by Routledge in 2016. Robert is currently researching the fishing and animal/creaturely geographies in North Korea, colonial mineralogical and forest inheritances of the Korean peninsula and necro-mobilities of North Korean Ghost Ships and other difficult or unwelcome bodies and materials in Korean and East Asian historical geography.