Space and Environment
- P-ISSN1225-6706
- E-ISSN2733-4295
- KCI
ISSN : 1225-6706
Vol.33 No.2
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This article discusses the research process of villages for negative leprosy patients, which cannot be reduced to either community or long-term welfare institutions, mainly through archives from the 1950s and 1960s. I propose a “researcher with a blush” who feels and embodies shame, an affect that focuses on residual emotions, relationships, and the world. I show how the process of exploring the residual spatiality of villages for negative leprosy patients by the researcher with a blush, along with the archives of noises, has the potential to deconstructively expand the study of institutionalization in Korea. Specifically, I first analyze the ongoing discussion of shame in the social sciences and social movements, not only as a temporal, personal emotion but also as an affective commons that is a bodily response and an expression of interest in constantly touching and engaging with the world. Second, I examine the methodological shift from data-centric to noise-centric archival practices. I suggest the archive as an ephemeral state resulting from a constant slippage between the signifier and the signified under catachresis rather than as a stasis fixed in an absolute representation. Third, I delve into the moments of shame that generate a new way of encountering the villages for negative leprosy patients by detailing my archival collection process.
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Non-Representational approaches oriented from Non-Representational Theory(NRT) seek to address 'the unrepresented' in research, prompting a reassessment of the components that shape academic studies, such as methodology, researcher subjectivity, and research media, going beyond mere theory replacement. In this context, the study briefly delves into the fundamental notions and importance of NRT and associated research, discussing the necessity of corresponding methodologies, the role of researcher subjectivity in practical application, and the media through which the embodied 'unrepresented' can be conveyed. Despite potential difficulties and risks, envisioning alternative ways for methodology, subjectivity, and media in non-representational research can providing opportunities for expansion of academic research which territorialized around representational epistemology and academic writing.
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본 글은 2012년부터 지난 11년간 서울시 곳곳에서 열리고 닫히며 대안적인 먹거리 실천의윤리를 만들어가는 ‘마르쉐@’ 농부시장에 대한 사례연구로, 농부시장의 먹거리 실천들이 만들어가는 집합적 정동 — 농의 정동 — 의 자생적인 힘을 탐색한다. 특히 농부시장의 먹거리를 매개로 펼쳐지는 ‘물질-담론적 실천(material-discursive practices)(Barad, 2003)’ 의 정동적 성격에 주목하여 이러한 실천들이 시장의 안팎으로 퍼져나가며 먹거리 실천의 윤리를 재조정해 가는 과정을 분석한다. 나아가 이에 대해 ‘연구’하는 과정에서 현장의 정동과연구자가 마주치고 어긋나는 지점들을 적극적으로 드러내는 정동연구의 글쓰기 방법을 탐색한다. 이와 같은 작업은 에코페미니즘, 생태주의 또는 먹거리 체계의 대안적인 규범과 같이 몇 가지 담론만으로 농부시장의 실천들을 틀 지우지 않을 때 비로소 생동하는 ‘물질-담론적 실천’의 힘을 전달하기 위함이다. 이러한 관점에서 본 연구는 한국의 여성환경운동의발생과 그 실천적·이론적 흐름을 집대성한 문순홍의 ‘다시 있게 함(restoration)’이라는 생태적 감수성을 만들어가는 전략의 언어를 재료로 삼아 다음을 질문하고, 대답해 볼 것이다. ‘마르쉐@’ 농부시장은 우리의 일상에 무엇을 다시 있게 하는가?
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The purpose of this study is to explore the history and meaning of school district formation in Korea based on the case of Eunhaeng crossroads in Junggye-dong, Nowon-gu. The beginning of the concept of a school district comes from the 1968 middle school non-examination, and the initial school district setting was in eliminating the middle school entrance examination and dispersing the population. In the 1970s, the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s plan to relocate Gangnam concentrated prestigious schools, transforming the meaning of school districts into a major factor in middle-class housing; from then on, school districts became a key factor influencing real estate prices, coining the words school district sickness and school district premium. As the entrance examination system and the educational environment change every year, the influence of the school district has decreased compared to the past, but the symbolic and metaphorical meaning of the school district still works effectively. As an example, the Junggye-dong Bank Intersection originated from the development of the Junggye 2 district housing site in 1993, and caused the movement of groups with similar income levels. In addition, due to the development of a limited commercial district called the Bank Crossroad, the private education market has grown densely and has been developed into a prestigious school district called Daechi-dong of Gangbuk with the active support of Nowon-gu Office. As an urban construct, the school district does not simply mean the concentration of educational institutions, but is the result of a combination of the history of the entrance examination system and demographic changes caused by urban development plans.
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This study explores the role of vegan-location mapping as an integrated form of the veganism movement, by analyzing its relationship with the geographical imagination of mapmakers through the lens of relational, physical, and representational placeness. For this purpose, six national and local vegan maps, created voluntarily by individuals, were selected and nine mapmakers who created them were recruited and interviewed as our research participants. We also collected and analyzed information through messages and properties inscribed in the maps, as well as through posts and comments on social media and websites that share the maps. We found that participants in the vegetarian movement utilize vegan maps as a relational site of collaboration and bonding, a physical site of exposure and display of vegetarian concepts and values, and a representational site of geographical imaginaries of sustainable societies. These findings suggest that vegan maps function as more than just a map merely displaying vegan locations, but as alternative places for the mutual construction of participants’ geographical imaginaries.
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This research explores platform urbanism from the critical approach that previous studies in South Korea have not sufficiently addressed platformization as an urban spatial phenomenon. In particular, this research analyzes the way how platform and urban space relate by focusing on the locations and scapes of 29 food delivery shop-in-shop stores on Sinchon area in Seoul. Shop-in-shop is a business type that operates multiple sub-brands simultaneously in one store, and they are easily managed to add, change and delete brands through delivery platforms. In order to reveal the transformation of urban culture facilitated by delivery platforms, this research set the following research questions: 1) How do the different logic of platform and urban space intermingle in shop-in-shop stores on Sinchon?" and 2) How do these logics of location affect the foodscapes? The studied stores that managed shop-in-shop food delivery were (re)constructing store locations that mix online and offline spatialities by articulating online platform logics and the local conditions of offline spaces under favorable conditions for their business. In addition, many of them were producing “dark” foodscapes at the store scale that precluded access other than by delivery bike, in contrast to their mobile efforts for attracting customers to their sub-brands. Through this analysis, this research confirms that the logic of platform is not transplanted 'just as it is' into urban space, but platform city is co-constructed in the process of establishing relationships between platform logics and local factors in urban space.
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The discourse on smart cities has been dominated by a functionalist vision of leveraging data technology to solve urban problems, and critiques of its technocratic intentions. Regardless of this discourse, smart city experiments have been conducted in several cities, and on the other hand, data technologies are rapidly permeating things in our daily lives and becoming a fundamental part of urban life. Based on the recognition of the inseparability of ‘digital technologies’ in future cities, this article argues that we need to go beyond critiquing smart cities as imaginaries drawn from ideological discourses to recognize them as urban practices in the digital world and analyze their concrete mode. To this end, I first point out the blind spots in the critical discourse on smart cities and the limitations of normative approaches. Next, the mechanisms, by which urbanity itself is simultaneously reconfigured alongside the data technologies for smart cities that integrates technology society and space is examined from the view point of subjectivity and social interaction with relevant discussions and examples. It then explores the dilemma of publicness in the “deeply digitalized” urban like smart cities, and argues that a new concept of publicness is needed. Lastly, I emphasizes the importance of the design of things and spaces as a modality of the technology-urban nexus and propose that the analysis of the design can become one of the critical methodologies for addressing the smart city phenomenon.