Friday, September 25th, 2015 – Saturday, September 26th, 2015 Unpacking and Rethinking Developmentalism Through Transnational Korea

Description

The contributors to this workshop will explore neo-developmentalism in Korea in the new millennium. Examples will include the neo-liberal globalization of economic activities and social/civic movements (including the Sae-maa-eul movement), the transnational transfer of specific policies (e.g., the construction of Chinatown), the construction of global network hubs (e.g., airports), the inculcation of global citizenry (e.g., Jeju Educational City), and global city marketing through urban development that hinges on environmental friendliness. We will further explore:

 The changing relationship between the state, market, and civil/political society in Korea.
 The reterritorialization of developmentalism (at the scales of the national, sub-national, regional, urban, and local/global communities).
 The continuity/discontinuity between the spatiality of developmentalism in Korea during the 1960s through the 1980s, and the developmentalism of the contemporary period.
 A range of ruptures and fissures that were generated by developmentalist regimes in the past and present. This work will provide an important intervention into discussions on Korean developmentalism and the developmental state among academics and in policy circles that have uncritically extolled the Korean developmentalist regime for generating an economic miracle in the country.

The end product of the workshop will be a collection of manuscripts to be submitted to a journal for a special issue. This workshop will be closed to the public with the exception of the opening keynote speaker’s session. In addition to the three organizers, six authors, two keynote speakers, and two discussants, the workshop will invite Korean studies scholars and students whose research subjects are related to the workshop theme.

Workshop Schedule Day 1 | Thursday, September 24 | 2:00pm – 4:00pm, followed by a reception Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto | 1 Devonshire Place, North House, Room 208N
 Lecture by Bae-Gyoon Park (Seoul National University), “Developmental State and Politics of Industrial Complex Development in South Korea: A Multi-scalar Analysis of the Development of Masan Free Export Zone in the 1960s”
Day 2 | Friday, September 25 | 9:00am – 5:00pm
Kaneff Tower, York University | 4700 Keele Street, Room 857
 Session 1 (morning): Youjeong Oh (University of Texas, Austin), “Uneven Development and Aspirations in Jeju Global
Education City”
 Lecture (11:30am – 12:30pm): Jim Glassman (University of British Columbia), ” Rostow’s Fingerprints, Park’s Boot Prints, Lee’s Rhetorical Imprint: Transnational Dimensions of South Korean and Singaporean Developmentalism in the 1960s-1990s.”
Ross Building, York University, Room N120
 Session 2 (afternoon): Alice Kim (Seoul National University), “The World-Class Globalism of Incheon Airport and Its Developmentalist History”
 Session 3 (afternoon): Hong Kal (York University), “DRP (Dongdaemun Rooftop Paradise) as Counter-Spectacle”
Day 3 | Saturday, September 26 | 9:00am – 5:00pm
Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto | 1 Devonshire Place, North House, Room 108N
 Session 4 (morning): Hyeseon Jeong (Wright State University), “Giving Like a Developmental State: South Korea’s Foreign Aid and Exportation of Saemaul Undong (New Village Movement)”
 Session 5 (morning): Seo Young Park (Scripps College), “Code Eco: Aspiration and Contraditions of Environmental
Development”
 Session 6 (afternoon): Sujin Eom (University of California, Berkeley), “Enclave Urbanism: Transnational Transfer of Urban
Knowledge and the Production of Chinatown”
 Session 7 (afternoon): General Discussion
Workshop Organizers: Hong Kal (Visual Art, York University), Jesook Song (Anthropology, University of Toronto), Laam Hae (Political Science, York University)