Markus Bell

Biographic Data

ID3639573
NAMEMarkus Bell
GIVEN NAMESMarkus
FAMILY NAMEBell
SIGNATUREBELL M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Sheffield
ORCID0000-0003-2364-3730
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS20
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX2

  • Outsiders

    Markus BellBOOKOutsiders2021

    In this unique and insightful book, Markus Bell explores the hidden histories of the men, women, and children who traveled from Japan to the world’s most secretive state—North Korea. Through vivid ethnographic details and interviews with North Korean escapees, Outsiders: Memories of Migration to and from North Korea reveals the driving forces that propelled thousands of ordinary people to risk it all in Kim Il-Sung’s “Worker’s Paradise”, only to …

  • Decoding the Sino-North Korean Borderlands

    Open AccessAndray Abrahamian, Rosita Armytage et al.BOOKDecoding the Sino-North Korean…2021

  • Reimagining the Homeland

    Markus BellARTICLECanberra Anthropology2019References: 23

    This paper explores the changing relationship of diaspora to the homeland. In particular, this article focuses on the changing relationship of pro-North Korea, Zainichi Koreans (Koreans in Japan) towards North Korea. Many Koreans in Japan continue to identify with North Korea, but the nature of this relationship has changed, due to shifting generational attitudes towards both the host society and North Korea. A dance recital I witnessed in an eth…

  • Making and Breaking Family

    Markus Peter Simpson Bell, Markus BellARTICLEAsian Anthropology2016

    From 1959 to 1984, some 90,000 Koreans migrated from Japan to North Korea as part of the “repatriation movement.” Enduring severe deprivation in North Korea, in the last decade some 300 of these individuals have returned to Japan. Based on a year of ethnographic fieldwork in Japan, this paper asks how gift giving and the attendant obligation to reciprocate impacts on relations between non-profit organizations (NPOs) and the people they seek to he…

  • Japan's Diminishing Korean Minority

    Open AccessMarkus BellARTICLEAnthropology News2016

  • Framing and dominant metaphors in the coverage of North Korea in the Australian media

    Bronwen Dalton, Kyungja Jung et al.ARTICLEThe Pacific Review2015Cited by: 12References: 8

    © 2015 Taylor & Francis. Through the selective allocation of attention, framing and metaphors in covering foreign affairs and countries, media narratives often act to delegitimise, marginalise and demonise international actors. Focusing on Australian reportage of North Korea in The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald and from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2012, this paper explicates how the…

  • Manufacturing Kinship in a Nation Divided

    Markus BellARTICLECanberra Anthropology2013Cited by: 8References: 4

    The South Korean government continues to practice variants of what Stephan Castles (1995) calls 'differential exclusion', in which citizenship in the nation state for North Koreans does not confer membership in civil society. For new arrivals from North K