Space and Environment
- P-ISSN1225-6706
- E-ISSN2733-4295
- KCI
ISSN : 1225-6706
Vol.30 No.2
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This study reveals gendered disciplinary power in Korean geography which is hetero-normative and male-dominated by analyzing two women researchers’ experiences using collaborative autoethnography methodology. We analyze our experiences and feelings that we faced in academic spaces, such as lecture rooms, labs, conferences, and wrap-up parties to explore gendered disciplinary power that works in micro level. Through our experiences inside and outside of the lab, the basic unit of academic community, this study investigates which knowledge would be considered more important and meaningful under gendered surveillance over daily academic activities and how women researchers are disciplined through processes of knowledge construction. In addition, this study questions about the objectivity of knowledge and scientific strictness by utilizing researchers’ experiences as data. To this end, this study proposes critical discussions about gendered power in the academia of geography. Then we discuss our main methodology named collaborative autoethnography in detail. The experiences of two authors are analyzed in a parallel structure in order to avoid describing several stories as one by erasing the differences. We put epilogue which is unusual part in a research paper at the end of this paper. Epilogue makes our paper not just parallel, but also leads for reader to reflect on themselves and seek the possibility of solidarity as an extension of ‘collaborative’ autoethnography methodology.
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This study is an attempt to reflect on the fieldwork experience that researcher conducted while writing doctoral dissertation, with the view that researcher should be emphasized as part of both researcher and participants rather than being absolute and objective. The results of this study are as follows. First, researcher is not an absolute being that always remains neutral and objective in the process of research. Second, research participants are not passive objects that exist to provide the necessary information, but are active agents who engage in the research process, performing horizontal or hierarchical relationships with researcher in accordance with their context. In fieldwork, some research participants continue to check whether their remarks are appropriate to meet the goals or hypotheses of the research set by the researcher while some participants attempt to take the initiative in interviews and control the researchers using the situation of the ‘researcher who is in dire need of an interview.’ Third, the argument that the process of knowledge production, which is reproduced in papers and publications after rigorous field research, will be disembodied and objective is a kind of fantasy and god’s trick in that it goes through the process of translating into the language of researcher.
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This study aims to examine the limitations of the current IRB system by analyzing IRB regulations from the perspective of feminist research. Feminist research is useful for the analysis since it provides dynamic power relations between researcher and research subject, and also suggests that various methods should be sought instead of relying on IRB research ethics. The results of this study indicate that research ethics by IRB to protect research participants may not be true; research gatekeepers also try to protect research subject, but they also may harm the research subject; and the research subjects can be deceived by researcher who want to obtain more information from them. Based on feminist qualitative research, this paper points out the limitations of current research ethics by IRB and geography research communities. Finally, this paper suggests that research ethics for qualitative research should be developed more realistically.
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This paper aims at providing a critical re-reading of smart city discourses on the basis of the Lefebvrian concepts of urban revolution and urban society. First, it criticizes the Korean smart city discourses for their state-centered developmentalism, industrialism, and techno-determinism. Second, it provides a critical analysis on the smart city phenomena on the basis of the Lefebvrian concepts of urban revolution and urban society. In particular, it criticizes the ‘methodological nationalism’ and ‘methodological cityism’ inherent in the Korean smart city discourses, and suggests to see the smart city pheonomena through the urban lens, not through the ‘city’ perspective. Also, it discusses the ways in which the urban processes of assembling and encountering can be positively and negatively associated with smart technologies. Finally, it emphasizes that the construction of emancipatory urban society requires radical politics of encounter that resists against all kinds of forces separating between people, things and spaces in urban society.
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The main purpose of this study is to critically diagnose problems in the urban innovation policy project which has been relying upon the mainstream sharing economy model in terms of tracing back on the main discussions during the first and second phase of the ‘Sharing City Seoul’ policy (2013-2020). So far, the ‘Sharing City Seoul’ policy has uncritically accepted the logic of efficiency through the mediation of idle resources rather than preparing a way to produce and cooperate the common resources in the civil society. This study criticizes the policy stance of ‘Sharing City Seoul’ that has been carried out so far, and rather emphasizes the urban commons’ path to expand the alternative value of common-resource production and conviviality of actual civic independence and cooperation. In other words, it uncovers the fundamental limitations of the sharing economy ‘Sharing City Seoul’, which has mostly relied on the effects of existing resource brokerage, and exploring new possibilities for the inclusive ‘city commons’ plan led by civil society.
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Global real estate finance and investment have increased due to globalized financial capitals and the integration of real estate and financial markets. This article explores how global real estate finance works and expands geographically through the concept of financial chains. Financial geographers have developed the concept of financial chains that map financial flows and social networks of global capital circuits. It explains the dynamic relationship between circuits of capital and distinctive spatialities, institutions, and agents. This article applies the concept of financial chains to the overseas real estate funds for describing how global real estate investment interacts with various socio-spatial features to expand capital circulation and accumulate capital. It analyzes the value transfer channels and social networks of financial chains based on investment structures and cash flows of overseas real estate funds. The findings of this article suggest that the financial chains geographically expand circuits of capital by incorporating a broader range of space into financial systems and maximize profits by utilizing institutions of different states. Also, the financial chains take advantage of spatial differences and, at the same time, try to overcome spatial barriers for the free circulation of capital through varied agents. As such, global real estate investment accumulates capital by taking advantage of different spatiality, agents, and institutions. Besides, it unfolds in the tension between the power of equalization that removes spatial barriers and the power of differentiation that creates spatial differences.
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The Urban Saetul-Village Projects is a policy project started to intensively regenerate the vulnerable areas in the city center, a blind spot of the residential support project, and was implemented by separating the city from the rural areas. This study demonstrates the governance structure of general coordinators, village activists, village representatives, and civil servants, who are participating as important actors in the implementation of the Urban Saetul-Village Projects. Urban Saetul-Village Projects, which started in 2015, is mostly completed in 2019, and a network of major actors was analyzed through a survey of all 30 selected areas. Through this, we analyzed whether the governance of communication for the participation of residents worked as intended in the initial policy-making stage in the process of actual Urban Saetul-Village Projects, and how the effect and satisfaction of the project were as a result of the operation. It is significant that this study demonstrated the governance structure for all of the Urban Saetul-Village Projects and clarified the role of each actors.