Hyunji Kwon
Seoul National University · 社会科学
研究室紹介
Professor Hyunji Kwon's research lab focuses on labor market inequalities, particularly gendered and racialized precarity in service and global production networks. The lab investigates how organizational structures, corporate policies, and global value chains perpetuate structural inequities, with a strong emphasis on the experiences of women and marginalized workers. It also explores the role of visual and embodied methodologies—such as body mapping and testimonial art—in witnessing and challenging systemic violence and colonial legacies.
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Selected Papers
15Supplementing the full-time permanent workforce with part-time staff is a widespread practice among firms. To better understand this dynamic, we evaluate how work organization choices influence the degree of part-time use by analysing North American survey data from call centre establishments. We also evaluate the effect of part-time use on the voluntary turnover behaviour of the full-time permanent workforce. For example, firms with greater reliance on a high involvement approach to work organi
이 연구는 서비스경제화의 과정에서 확대되고 있는 여성의 일자리가 주로 저임금부문에 집중되어 불평등한 상태로 유지·강화되는 현재의 노동시장 현상에 주목하고 이를 이해해 보려는 한 시도다. 견고하게 지속되고 있는 서비스 경제하 여성노동의 저임금화와 불평등의 유지를 틸리(C. Tilly)의 장기지속 불평등이라는 개념틀을 차용해 이해해 보려고 하였다. 즉, 노동조직내부의 경계와 사회규범이 배태된 사회적 범주의 차이가 결합되어 시장 합리성의 논리로는 설명되기 어려운 젠더 불평등이 견고하게 유지되는 과정을 설명하였다. 또 이러한 불평등을 생성하고 유지시키는 주요 행위자로 기업에 주목하고, 기업 구조와 정책이 이 과정에 어떻게 작용하는지를 논의하였다. 구체적으로, (1) 기업 내 성분절적 고용관리 정책, (2) 기업 간 전근대적 위계 분업 관계, (3) 신분제적 고객관계를 강화하는 대고객서비스 전략이 어떻게 사회적 위계로서의 젠더 범주와 결합되고 상호작용함으로써 여성서비스노동자의 불평등한 노동경
Abstract This article traces the historical development of apparel suppliers in the Republic of Korea, particularly the rise of first‐tier suppliers (FTSs). Using the cases of two leading FTSs, the authors examine how they expanded their international presence, especially in Asia, to become large multinationals. Particular attention is paid to the development of these FTSs during the period following the global financial crisis of the late 2000s. This article investigates whether, having rapidly
Body mapping refers to the process of representing a person’s lived experience and sociocultural contexts by creating a visualization of the person’s body, with accompanying texts and symbols. Despite the history of disembodiment in the western context, the wide use of body mapping as a visual methodology in various fields attests to the potential of body mapping in promoting embodiment and witnessing. By analysing three body maps that were created at three distinct teaching sites in community-b
This essay addresses the largely unrecognized art of a former comfort woman, Duk-kyung Kang (1929–1997). Comfort women were forced sexual slaves for the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second World War. By analyzing how both postcolonial and decolonial aesthetics are embodied in her paintings, the potential of her art to challenge colonialism becomes pronounced.
This essay addresses the largely unrecognized art of a former comfort woman, Duk-kyung Kang (1929–1997). Comfort women were forced sexual slaves for the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second World War. By analyzing how both postcolonial and decolonial aesthetics are embodied in her paintings, the potential of her art to challenge colonialism becomes pronounced.
It is hard to coherently narrate traumatic memories as they are intensely emotional and fragmented. I created this narrative inquiry in the hope of enacting care and performing mourning for the unexpected death of Seonjeong Yi Lebrun (1983–2017). Seonjeong was a Korean-born art education researcher in Canada whose work exemplified how artistic approaches to narrative evoke empathy and connectivity. Her research spanned arts-based self-study to participatory action research about comfort women (K
Informed by critical trauma theory and by implementing modified principles of trauma-informed care approaches, I conducted art pedagogical practices for women in transitional homes who may have experienced trauma. These artistic practices that possibly enabled their witnessing focused on embodiment, affect, and memory, challenging the traditional discourses on trauma and designated norms for appropriate subjectivity, affect, and narrative related to trauma. By reconfiguring trauma as a cultural
Centering on my transformation from a victim of sexual assault to a subject with sexual trauma, I examine how performative autoethnography differently addresses, responds to, and witnesses my own trauma. Kelly Oliver’s (2001) theory of witnessing provides a theoretical framework to witness through infinite address-ability and response-ability of subjectivity. In order to witness my trauma through increased subjectivity resulting from enhanced address-ability and response-ability, I use performat