Alternative Geography Earcag | 9Th Meeting

EAST ASIAN REGIONAL CONFERENCE IN ALTERNATIVE GEOGRAPHY EARCAG | 9TH MEETING For spatial justice: RETHINKING SOCIO-SPATIAL ISSUES FROM EAST ASIAN PERSPECTIVES 10–15 DECEMBER 2018 Daegu University (10 DEC) & Daegu EXCO (11-12 DEC) Field Trip (13-15 DEC) | Local Organizing Committee Bae-Gyoon Park (Seoul National University) Byeongsun Jeong (Seoul Institute) Byung-Doo Choi (Daegu University) HaeRan Shin (Seoul National University) Hyunjoo Jung (Seoul National University) In Kwon Park (University of Seoul) Jin-Tae Hwang (Seoul National University) Jong Heon Jin (Kongju National University) Sanghun Lee (Hanshin University) Sang-hyun Chi (Kyunghee University) Seung-Ook Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology) Se Hoon Park (Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements) Young A Lee (Daegu University) | International steering Committee Byung-Doo Choi (Daegu University) Bae-Gyoon Park (Seoul National University) Amriah Buang (Malaysia) Jim Glassman (University of British Columbia, Canada) Chu-joe Hsia (Nanjing University, China) Jinn-yuh Hsu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Fujio Mizuoka (Hitotsubashi University, Japan) Toshio Mizuuchi (Osaka City University, Japan) Wing-Shing Tang (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong) | Organizers | Sponsors CONtents Conference aims and theme 2 Keynote speakers 3 Program at a glance 9 Sessions 12 Abstracts 23 Map & Floor Plan 94 Useful information 97 1 | Conference aims and theme In January 1999, the East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography (EARCAG) was held in Gyeongju and Daegu, South Korea, where twenty scholars assembled to discuss research on the theme of ‘Socio-Spatial Issues for East Asian Countries in the 21st Century’. Since this inaugural gathering, scholars within the expanding EARCAG network have witnessed complex socio-spatial changes in East Asia that have served to produce and re-shape various forms of inequality, injustice, and precarity, and they have sought to critically examine these issues from East Asian perspectives. Twenty years later, at the same location as EARCAG’s first conference in South Korea, we will revisit these socio-spatial questions with the hopes of promoting spatial justice. We are particularly interested in considering the relationship between East Asian spaces and the variety of methods that both guide the organization of space and our understandings of that space. The aim of EARCAG is to provide a platform for critical geographers and other social scientists to debate social and spatial issues in East Asia. Critical social scientists have observed increasing complexities, interdependencies, and inequalities in the development of capitalism and geopolitics over the world. Recent geopolitical tensions, particularly in East Asia, have produced convergent social and spatial concerns. What are the socio-spatial issues that act as impediments to spatial justice in East Asia? How are the issues approached in relation to Asian capitalism, politics, and the affects thereof? This year’s EARCAG session topics include but are not limited to: • Division, conflict and peace in East Asia • Embedded developmentalism and spatial justice in post-developmental-state society; post-territorial dynamics of spatial justice • Right to the cities and urban commons • Geography of precarity • Gender, Space and Justice; Gendered migration within and from East Asia • Alternative spaces for spatial justice; critical geopolitics for spatial justice • Mobilities as threats to and possibilities for spatial justice; Mobilities promoted and mobilized under the post-developmental state • Challenge of climate change and risk governance in East Asia • Environmental justice; critical geography for nature and the environment • Urban alienation and just city in East Asia • Uneven regional development and spatial justice • Equity issues in cities and regions under Neo-liberalism; Planning and policy issues for social justice from East Asian perspective • Transnational migration, multiculturalism, and global justice 2 | Keynote speakers keynote speaker I Byung-Doo Choi is a professor in the Department of Geography at Daegu University. His work bears on the problems arising in modern capitalist cities. Abstract Spatial Justice and the De-alienated City The process of neoliberal globalization which has evolved for the last half century has increased a integration of world economy market, extending and intensifying the capitalist economic system throughout the world on the one hand. But on the other, this process has resulted in a fragmentation and compartmentalization of our society due to its nature of exclusivity and polarization, heightening a multi-faceted and multi-scalar boundaries with translucent glass wall. This seems what has been implied in Neil Smith's theory of uneven development as a process of equalization and differentiation(Smith, 2008). Most countries in East Asia as well as others on the globe have gone through this kind of process with an increasing socio-spatial compartment and polarization, which has arisen numerous unfair relations and unjust events in every corners of our society. This is why we take 'spatial justice' into a consideration seriously and intensively as the main theme of in this conference. Our enthusiasm in this conference is to reveal and oppose to this kind of socio-spatial unjust differentiation and exclusion, and to pursue alternative geographies for production of space of justice. The concept of spatial justice is not an easy term to be defined, even though it is now likely a familiar one to human geographers. This term would neither be properly defined as a sub-category of social justice, nor with a translation or application of existing concepts of social justice into spatial contexts. As Butler(2016) suggests, spatial justice seems to be most appropriately understood with a relational and dynamic concept of space (that is, space as a set of relations among people and things, or as a 'sphere of coexisting heterogeneity' in Massey's term), and with a concept of justice interpreted on the basis of Lefebvre's concept of moment as a 'modality of presence' which arises from 3 the spatiality of everyday life. According to Lefebvre, moments of justice is an 'impossible possibility' from which 'the possible/impossible' dialectical movement begins'(Lefebvre, 2002). When we think of spatial justice, it is often conceptualized with absolutely normative terms, This sort of Justice provokes utopian moments in everyday life. But because it proclaims itself to be an absolute, the moment of justice defines its alienation and its specific negativity, In this sense, the moment of justice can be situated as lying at the intersection of the utopian and the tragic. Even though the concepts of moment and alienation can be traced back to Hegel's theory of dialectics, we are mainly focusing on these concepts in relation to spatial (in)justice. Realizing (spatial) justice is to escape form such alienated situations, or especially for Lefebvre, to rupture the banality of the everyday life. As seen above, space is not a thing but a relation of things and its ongoing dynamic process. Then when we consider spatial justice, we need to deal with not merely spatial products, but production of space more importantly. In other words, a formulation of spatial justice can include concept of distributive justice, as certain kinds of physical goods such as buildings (eg. hospital), land blocks, etc. might be distributable. But what is more important for theory of spatial justice is to formulate justice of production as well as justice of recognition, Justice of production does not merely comprise justice in work places for dealienation of workers, but more comprehensively justice in socio-spatial relation of production in capitalist society in general, and justice of production of the city in particular. From this point of view, the right to the city can be generalized as a claim of alienated urban people for justice of production of urban space, as stressed by Harvey that "all those whose labors are engaged in producing and reproducing the city have a collective right not only to that which they produce, but also to decide what kind of urbanism is to be produced where, and how" (Harvey, 2012, 137). Reference Butler, C., 2016, Space, politics, justice, in Butler, C. and Mussawir, E.(eds), Space of Justice: Peripheries, Passages, Appropriations, Routledge, New York. 113-131. Harvey, D., 2012, Rebel Cities: From the right to the City to the Urban Revolution, Verso. Lefebvre, A., 2002, Critique of Everyday Life, vol.2. (translated by J. Moore), Verso. Smith, N., 2008, Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the production of space, Univ. of Georgia Press. 4 keynote speaker II Jinn-yuh Hsu is a professor in the Department of Geography at National Taiwan University. He is interested in regional development, industrial organization, and community empowerment. Abstract Spatial Justice of State Zoning in East Asia Over the past five decades the proliferation of special economic zones (SEZs) and export processing zones (EPZs) has been crucial to the emergence of Asian economic power. As a policy technology, zoning is used to alter strategic, political, economic, and social conditions in a specific locality to attract foreign investment, technology, and international expertise. The demonstration and experimentation effects of the zoning phenomena lead to zone proliferation and policy learning across the East Asian Developmental States (EADS). While a number of

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