Call for Papers for the 9th East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography (EARCAG)

Venue and Hotel Information For Spatial Justice : ◊ Venue Rethinking Socio-spatial Issues EXCO 10 Exco-ro, Buk-gu, Daegu Venue: from East Asian Perspectives (대구시 북구 산격동 엑스코로 10) Daegu EXCO

◊ Hotel Hotel: Inter-Burgo EXCO Inter-Burgo EXCO 80, Yutongdanji-ro, Buk-gu, Daegu (대구시 북구 유통단지로 80(산격동), costco 호텔 인터불고 엑스코)

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Local Organizing Committee

Byung-Doo Choi (Daegu University), Jin-Tae Hwang (Seoul National University), Jong Heon Jin (Kongju National University), Hyunjoo Jung (Seoul National University), Sanghun Lee (Hanshin University), Young A Lee (Daegu University), Bae-Gyoon Park (Seoul National University), In Kwon Park (University of Seoul), Se Hoon Park (Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements), HaeRan Shin (Seoul National University), Byeongsun Jeong (Seoul Institute)

Dates EARCAG Steering Committee 10 December (Mon) - 12 December (Wed),

Byung-Doo Choi (Daegu University, ), Bae-Gyoon Park (Seoul National 2018 (with field trip to follow) University, South Korea), Amriah Buang (Malaysia), Jim Glassman (University of British Columbia, Canada), Chu-joe Hsia (Nanjing University, China), Jinn-yuh Hsu (National Venue Taiwan University, Taiwan), Fujio Mizuoka (Hitotsubashi University, Japan), Toshio Daegu University (10 December) Mizuuchi (Osaka City University, Japan), Wing-Shing Tang (Hong Kong Baptist University, and Daegu Exco (11-12 December), Hong Kong) Field trip (13-15 December) Organizers Korean Association of Space Contact Information and Environment Research (KASER)

Please direct any inquires to Young A Lee or HaeRan Shin at and Seoul National University Centre [email protected] | https://earcag2018.wordpress.com/ for Asian Cities (SNU CAC) Supporting Institutions Daegu University, City of Daegu

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In January 1999, the East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography (EARCAG) was Don Mitchell (Uppsala University) held in Gyeongju and Daegu, South Korea, where twenty scholars assembled to discuss research Jinn-Yuh Hsu (Taiwan National University) on the theme of ‘Socio-Spatial Issues for East Asian Countries in the 21st Century’. Since this Byung-Doo Choi (Daegu University) inaugural gathering, scholars within the expanding EARCAG network have witnessed complex Myung-Rae Cho (Korea Environment Institute/) 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. Submission of Abstracts 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 If you are interested in participating in this conference, please send an abstract (500 words max) particularly interested in considering the relationship between East Asian spaces and the variety to [email protected] by 31 July, 2018. The organizing committee will review the of methods that both guide the organization of space and our understandings of that space. abstracts and contact you with the result by 31 August, 2018.

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 Organised Sessions 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 If you plan to organise a session, please send the title and description of the session and your impediments to spatial justice in East Asia? How are the issues approached in relation to Asian papers in it to [email protected] by 31 July, 2018. capitalism, politics, and the affects thereof?

Potential session topics include but are not limited to: Registration Fees ◊ Division, conflict, and peace ◊ Embedded developmentalism and spatial justice in post-developmental-state society; post-territorial dynamics of spatial justice Faculty Students ◊ The right to the city and the urban commons US $70 (or Korean \80,000) ◊ Geography of precarity; the precariat’s spatial dynamics and precarious spaces US $150 (or Korean \170,000) for participants from OECD member countries, ◊ Gender, space and justice; gendered migration within, to, and from East Asia Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong ◊ Alternative spaces of justice; critical geopolitics for spatial justice ◊ Mobilities as threats to and possibilities for spatial justice; mobilities promoted Faculty Students and mobilized under the post-developmental state US $35 (or Korean \40,000) ◊ Climate change and risk governance US $70 (or Korean \80,000) for participants from elsewhere Faculty Students ◊ Environmental justice; critical geography for nature and the environment ◊ Technological development and spatial justice in a smart era US $70 (or Korean \80,000) US $150 (or Korean \170,000) for participants from OECD member countries, ◊ Urban alienation and the just city Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong ◊ Uneven regional development and spatial justice ◊ Equity in cities and regions under neo-liberalism Field Trip Faculty Students ◊ Planning and making policy for social justice Inter-Korean border regions (to be decided) US $35 (or Korean \40,000) ◊ Transnational migration, multiculturalism, and global justice US $70 (or Korean \80,000) for participants from elsewhere

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