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Book SynopsisBridging area and postcolonial studies with the critical political economy of South Korea.
Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction: Core Location, Asia as Method, and a Relational Understanding of Places Laam Hae, York University and Jesook Song, University of Toronto 1. The Idea of Chinatown: Rethinking Cities from the Periphery Sujin Eom, Dartmouth College 2. Seeing the Development of Jeju Global Education City from the Margins Youjeong Oh, University of Texas at Austin 3. Against the Construction State: Korean Pro-Greenbelt Activism as Method Laam Hae, York University 4. Marriage Migration as Spatio-Temporal Fix in Pohang’s Post-Industrial Urban Development through Saemaul Hyeseon Jeong, University of Newcastle, Australia 5. "Locations of Reflexivity": South Korean Community Activism and Its Affective Promise for "Solidarity" Mun Young Cho, Yonsei University, South Korea 6. The Education Welfare Project at Pine Tree Hill: A Core Location to Assess Distributional and Transitional Forms of Justice Jesook Song, University of Toronto 7. Situating the Space of Labour: Activism, Work, and Urban Regeneration Seo Young Park, Scripps College Afterword Jesook Song, University of Toronto and Laam Hae, York University
