POSTPONED | Making and Unmaking of the Speculative City: Urban Politics in South Korea

Making and Unmaking of the Speculative City: Urban Politics in South Korea

Friday, March 13, 2020 | 9:30 AM – 3:15 PM | Room 208N, North House, 1 Devonshire Place, University of Toronto-St. George campus

*Please note that this symposium has been POSTPONED.

Opening Remarks | 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM

Hyun Ok Park (York University)

Yoonkyung Lee (University of Toronto)

Hae Yeon Choo (University of Toronto)

Keynote | 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Chair: Yewon Lee (University of Toronto) | Discussant: Hae Yeon Choo (University of Toronto)

Laam Hae (York University)

“Toward a Dialectical Vision of Planetary Urbanization: Ecological Pro-Greenbelt Movements against the Construction State in Korea”

Panel 1: The Making of the Speculative City | 11:15 AM -12:45 PM

Chair: Yoonkyung Lee (University of Toronto) | Discussant: Seung-Cheol Lee (University of Mississippi)

Hyun-Chul Kim (University of Toronto)

“Juxtaposing biopolitics with speculative urbanisms: the development of private welfare/health institutions in South Korea”

Hae Yeon Choo (University of Toronto)

“The Dictatorship of Capital: Urban Redevelopment and the Democracy of the Have-Nots in Post-Authoritarian South Korea”

Lunch | 12:45 PM -2:00 PM

Panel 2 The Unmaking of the Speculative City | 2:00 PM -3:15 PM

Chair: Hyun-Chul Kim (University of Toronto) | Discussant: Jesook Song (University of Toronto)

Seung Cheol Lee (University of Mississippi)

“Seeing like a community entrepreneur: The capitalization of ‘community’ in Seoul’s community building project (maul mandulgi)”

Yewon Lee (University of Toronto)

“Precarious Workers in the Speculative City: Making Worker’s Power of Self-Employed Tenant Shopkeepers in Seoul through the Production of Space”

This event is organized by Hae Yeon Choo (Sociology, University of Toronto). This event is presented by Korean Office for Research and Education at York University funded by The Academy of Korean Studies. It is co-organized by Centre for the Study of Korea at University of Toronto. It is co-sponsored by School of Cities University of Toronto and Hope21.

For more information: kore@yorku.ca