Description
Book SynopsisStitching the 24-Hour City reveals the intense speed of garment production and everyday life in Dongdaemun, a lively market in Seoul, South Korea. Once the site of uprisings against oppressive working conditions in the 1970s and 1980s, Dongdaemun has now become iconic for its creative economy, nightlife, fast-fashion factories, and shopping plazas. Seo Young Park follows the work of people who witnessed and experienced the rapidly changing marketplace from the inside. Through this approach, Park examines the meanings and politics of work in one of the world''s most vibrant and dynamic global urban marketplaces.
Park brings readers into close contact with the garment designers, workers, and traders who sustain the extraordinary speed of fast-fashion production and circulation, as well as the labor activists who challenge it. Attending to their narratives and practices of work, Park argues that speed, rather than being a singular drive of acceleration
Trade Review
Eminently readable for anyone interested in the production side of fast fashion, regardless of geographic field.
* Choice *
I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in urban ethnography of labour, temporality, affect and spaces. This book offers fascinating stories and compelling analyses that illuminate affective and embodied time-geographies of labour.
* Urban Studies *
Table of ContentsPrologue
Introduction
Part 1: SPEED AS EXPERIENCE
1. Affective Crowds and Making the 24-Hour City
2. Intimate Networks
3. Passionate Imitation
Part 2: PROBLEMATIZATION OF SPEED
4. Redirecting the Future
5. Pacing the Flow
Conclusion
