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SUMMARY:The Postdevelopmental State: Dilemmas of Economic Democratization in Contemporary South Korea
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nTuesday, 22 October 2024 | 14:00 to 16:00 EDT | Room 208N, North House, 1 Devonshire Place, University of Toronto\n\n\n\nWithJamie Doucette, University of Manchester\n\n\n\n Over the last 25 years, South Korea has witnessed growing inequality through non-standard employment, mushrooming real estate prices, and the growth of its super-conglomerates. That this expansion has taken place amid declining rates of economic growth and turbulent political events marks a departure from Korea’s past recognition as a high growth ‘developmental state.’ This presentation insists that to understand the challenges associated with this transformation what is needed is nothing less than a revision of the very standpoint of developmental state research itself. To do so, it foregrounds the progressive project of ‘economic democratization’ to shift inquiry from elite bureaucracies and rapid GDP growth to the dynamics of historical blocs and the contours of socio-economic inequality. Dr. Jamie Doucette will examine how despite the embrace of this project by successive liberal administrations, and appropriation by moderate conservatives, it has been met with frustration. He will argue that the causes of such can be seen through three interlinked phenomena: a narrowing vision of what constitutes economic democracy, the ambiguous space accorded to workers within it, and a problematic ‘politics of personality’ that has been used to pursue legitimacy in lieu of effective alliance-building and substantive policy change.\n\n\n\nJamie Doucette is Reader in Human Geography at the University of Manchester. His research interests include the geographical political economy of development and democratization in East Asia, the construction of urban and economic expertise, labour geographies, and the politics of special economic zones. His articles have appeared in journals such as Progress in Human Geography, Urban Geography, Transactions of the RGS-IBG, Political Geography, Journal of Asian Studies, and Critical Asian Studies, among others. This talk is based on his recent monograph The Postdevelopmental State: Dilemmas of Economic Democratization in Contemporary South Korea (University of Michigan Press, 2024). He is the editor, with Bae-gyoon Park, of Developmentalist Cities? Interrogating Urban Developmentalism in East Asia (Brill/Haymarket 2019).\n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Korea at the Asian Institute and the Korean Office for Research and Education (KORE) at the York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) at York University. \n\n\n\nAttend in-person ( https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/5279/register/in-person )\n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Korea at the Asian Institute and the Korean Office for Research and Education (KORE) at the York Centre for Asian Research at York University\n\n\n\nFor more information, click this link ( https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/postdevelopmental-state-dilemmas-economic-democratization-contemporary-south-korea ).\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/research/ycar/events/postdevelopmental-state-dilemmas-economic-democratization-contemporary-south-korea-doucette-22102024/
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