Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Jesook Song ,
Laam Hae
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.00cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.450kg
ISBN: 9781487503352
ISBN 10: 1487503350
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 19 November 2019
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
""" On the Margins of Urban South Korea not only provides cutting-edge urban ethnography on South Korea, but also offers a new theoretical paradigm with which to situate knowledge production in relation to South Korea as a 'core location.'"" --Eleana Kim, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine "" On the Margins of Urban South Korea is an excellent collection of essays that covers urban issues in Korean Studies through the lens of two theoretical concepts: core location and Asia as method. Using rich research based on ethnography, this collection breaks new ground in scholarship by linking these two theoretical concepts to urban issues in Korea."" --Albert L. Park, Department of History, Bank of America Associate Professor of Pacific Basin Studies"
On the Margins of Urban South Korea is an excellent collection of essays that covers urban issues in Korean Studies through the lens of two theoretical concepts: core location and Asia as method. Using rich research based on ethnography, this collection breaks new ground in scholarship by linking these two theoretical concepts to urban issues in Korea. - Albert L. Park, Department of History, Bank of America Associate Professor of Pacific Basin Studies On the Margins of Urban South Korea not only provides cutting-edge urban ethnography on South Korea, but also offers a new theoretical paradigm with which to situate knowledge production in relation to South Korea as a 'core location.' - Eleana Kim, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine
Author Information
Jesook Song is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Laam Hae is an associate professor in the Department of Politics at York University.
