On the Margins of Urban South Korea – Core Location as Method and Praxis Song

On the Margins of Urban South KoreaCore Location As Method and Praxis\nAuthor(s): Jesook Song, Laam Hae\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781487503352, 978-1487503352\nSynopsis\nThis book provides a rich and illuminating account of the peripheries of urban, regional, and transnational development in South Korea. Engaging with the ideas of \""core location,\"" a term coined by Baik Young-seo, and \""Asia as method,\"" a concept with a century-old intellectual lineage in East Asia, each chapter in the volume discusses the ways in which a place can be studied in an increasingly globalized world. Examining cases set in the Jeju English Education City, anti-poverty and community activist sites, rural areas home to large numbers of migrant women, and Koreas Chinatowns, greenbelts, and textile factories, the collection develops a relational understanding of a place as a constellation of local and global forces and .