Let the River Flow ∼∼ A Postcolonial Ecotheology and the Grand Canal Project in Korea

Abstract

As Edward W. Said states, “We live in one global environment with a huge number of ecological, economic, social, and political pressures tearing at its only dimly perceived, basically uninterpreted and incomprehended fabric.”1 Seeing ecological degradation and imperialism against nonhuman nature in the twenty-first century as a serious postcolonial theme, “biocolonization” is the main focus of this study to envision a more livable planet with other species (animals and plants as well as rivers, mountains, rocks, etc.) and to call human beings’ ethical demands for being responsible and responsive to our urgent ecological crisis on the earth, specifically, “the Korean Grand Canal Project” through a postcolonial ecotheological perspective.