Toponymic skirmishes and marine encounters

Abstract

The ongoing sea names seminar series offers an excellent possibility for academics, scholars, journalists, and individuals involved in North Asian politics to make intellectual and practical inroads into framing, reframing, and managing the East Sea/Sea of Japan naming issue. In addition to this more practical and administrative question, the potential continuing role of the meetings in expanding academic debate in critical political geographies, marine toponomastics, and island studies is vast. I believe the subheading I used in a recently published evaluative review of this Jeju Island seminar summarises succinctly where the scholarly governmental crossover may lie: toponymic skirmishes and marine encounters.