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Abstract In this article, I examine how the spatiality of the state and its associated territorial politics can have an impact on the spatial and scalar restructuring of the state. Building on recent theoretical developments on state space, this article examines how territorial politics can be organized under the particular spatiality of the state, and how that particular form of territorial politics can have an impact on the future restructuring of state spatiality. In particular, by focusing o

Abstract: A statist perspective holds that the autonomous state has enabled East Asian NICs, notably South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, to achieve economic success. I challenge this perspective by showing that sociopolitical relations between the state and other social actors have deeply affected state actions in housing development in South Korea and Singapore. I demonstrate that the state role in housing is influenced by the nature of the political coalition the state has establish

Abstract State rescaling is the subject of a continuously growing literature that provides valuable insights into our current understandings of globalization, the spatiality of the capitalist state and urban and regional development. There have been, however, growing concerns about the wider applicability of this literature. Since the bulk of state rescaling studies have focused on N orth American and European examples, the existing literature is limited in its conceptualization of the diverse a

Abstract: This article explains the liberalization and globalization of the South Korean automobile industry, with an emphasis on the multiscalar processes of globalization. In particular, it explores the processes by which the South Korean government shifted its policy for the automobile industry, from a nationalist and protectionist orientation toward liberalization in the late 1990s, which, in turn, attracted inward investments from foreign automakers and facilitated the globalization of the

Abstract Based on a multi-scalar view on globalization, this paper suggests that the nation-state's policy liberalization is not simply imposed from above by global forces, but constituted from below by national and sub-national forces. In particular, this paper explores how inter-scalar interactions between national and local forces can give impacts on the ways in which the nation state liberalizes its regulations on the transnational flows of capital and investment. With case studies of “big d

This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Developmental Neoliberalism and Spatially Selective Liberalization in East Asia Spatially Selective Liberalization in-the-Making Conclusion References

Abstract This paper examines the relations between the conditions for, and the diverse forms of, local development politics. It does this by addressing a specific form of local development politics encountered in South Korea: a politics of regionalism. This is conceptualised in two stages. At an abstract level, the paper theorises the politics of local economic development in terms of the territorialisation of regulatory processes. On this basis, conceptual links are provided between the conditi

본 논문은 한반도의 접경지역이 지니고 있는 다중적이고 복합적이며 혼종적 성격을 드러내는 것을 목적으로 한다. 특히, 경계와 영토에 대한 포스트 영토주의적 입장을 바탕으로, 한반도의 접경지역을 국경을 둘러싸고 살아가는 다양한 사람들과 행위자들의 복잡한 상호작용과 역동적 실천들 속에서 구성되고 항상 새롭게 만들어지는 사회적 구성물이라 바라본다. 보다 구체적으로는 국경과 접경을 영토성과 이동성의 복합적 교차공간으로 인식할 것을 제안하면서, 한반도 접경지역이 영토성에 기반한 ‘안보’의 논리와 이동성을 지향하는 ‘경제’의 논리가 서로 경합하면서 결합되는 ‘안보-경제 연계’를 바탕으로 사회적으로 구성되는 과정을 살펴본다.

Translated from the published article in Space and Environmemt 31: 49-87, 2009 with permission from the The Korean Association of Space and Environment Research.

This chapter contains sections titled: Divergent Views on the East Asian Neoliberalization The Global Financial Crisis and East Asian Neoliberalization References