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On the Margins of Urban South Korea
Core Location As Method and Praxis
Jesook Song (Edited by), Laam Hae (Edited by)
9781487503352
Hardback, published 19 November 2019
208 pages, 1 b&w illustration
23.5 x 16 x 1.9 cm, 0.45 kg
This book provides a rich and illuminating account of the peripheries of urban, regional, and transnational development in South Korea. Engaging with the ideas of "core location," a term coined by Baik Young-seo, and "Asia as method," a concept with a century-old intellectual lineage in East Asia, each chapter in the volume discusses the ways in which a place can be studied in an increasingly globalized world. Examining cases set in the Jeju English Education City, anti-poverty and community activist sites, rural areas home to large numbers of migrant women, and Korea’s Chinatowns, greenbelts, and textile factories, the collection develops a relational understanding of a place as a constellation of local and global forces and processes that interact and contradict in particular ways. Each chapter also explores multiple modes of urban marginality and discusses how understanding them shapes the methods of academic praxis for social justice causes and decolonialized scholarship. This book is the outcome of several years of interdisciplinary collaborations and dialogues among scholars based in geography, architecture, anthropology, and urban politics.
List of Abbreviations Introduction: Core Location, Asia as Method, and a Relational Understanding of Places 1. The Idea of Chinatown: Rethinking Cities from the Periphery 2. Seeing the Development of Jeju Global Education City from the Margins 3. Against the Construction State: Korean Pro-Greenbelt Activism as Method 4. Marriage Migration as Spatio-Temporal Fix in Pohang’s Post-Industrial Urban Development through Saemaul 5. "Locations of Reflexivity": South Korean Community Activism and Its Affective Promise for "Solidarity" 6. The Education Welfare Project at Pine Tree Hill: A Core Location to Assess Distributional and Transitional Forms of Justice 7. Situating the Space of Labour: Activism, Work, and Urban Regeneration Afterword
Laam Hae, York University and Jesook Song, University of Toronto
Sujin Eom, Dartmouth College
Youjeong Oh, University of Texas at Austin
Laam Hae, York University
Hyeseon Jeong, University of Newcastle, Australia
Mun Young Cho, Yonsei University, South Korea
Jesook Song, University of Toronto
Seo Young Park, Scripps College
Jesook Song, University of Toronto and Laam Hae, York University