Developmentalist Cities?: Interrogating Urban Developmentalism in East Asia

Developmentalist Cities addresses the missing urban story in research on East Asian developmentalism and the missing developmentalist story in studies of East Asian urbanization. It does so by promoting interdisciplinary research into the subject of urban developmentalism: a term that editors Jamie Doucette and Bae-Gyoon Park use to highlight the particular nature of the urban as a site of and for developmentalist intervention. The contributors to this volume deepen this concept by examining the legacy of how Cold War and post-Cold War geopolitical economy, spaces of exception (from special zones to industrial districts), and diverse forms of expertise have helped produce urban space in East Asia.

Contributors: Carolyn Cartier, Christina Kim Chilcote, Young Jin Choi, Jamie Doucette, Eli Friedman, Jim Glassman, Heidi Gottfried, Laam Hae, Jinn-yuh Hsu, Iam Chong Ip, Jin-Bum Jang, Soo-Hyun Kim, Jana M. Kleibert, Kah Wee Lee, Seung-Ook Lee, Christina Moon, Bae-Gyoon Park, Hyun Bang Shin.

Jamie Doucette is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Manchester. His research interests concern the geographical political economy of developmentalism and democratization in Korea and East Asia. He publishes widely in geography, political economy, and Asian studies.

Bae-Gyoon Park is a Professor of Geography in the College of Education at Seoul National University. His recent research focuses on border regions and (post) developmental urbanism in East Asia. He co-edited Locating Neoliberalism in East Asia (Blackwell 2012).