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The Cultural Politics of Urban Development in South Korea - Art, Memory and Urban Boosterism in Gwangju (Paperback)
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The Cultural Politics of Urban Development in South Korea - Art, Memory and Urban Boosterism in Gwangju (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies
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This book analyses the cultural politics of urban development in
Gwangju, South Korea, and illustrates the implementation of
state-led arts-based urban boosterism efforts in the context of
political trauma and the desire for economic growth. The book
explores urban development that is complicated by the recent
history of democratic uprising in Gwangju, and it examines the
dichotomy between cities as growth machines and progressive
metropolises. Actor-oriented qualitative research methods are used
to show how culture and economies can evolve from territorial
conflicts. The author argues that the quest for both growth and
social justice can coexist in intertwined ways and create urban
development. Moreover, recent events in Gwangju, such as the May 18
Democratic Uprising and massacre, are shown to act as a backdrop
for state-led urban boosterism and desire for economic growth at
the same time as depicting a resistance to state-corporate
marketing plans, which culminates in the eventual emergence of
relatively coherent places-of-memory. These convergences and
divergences are comparable to the urban boosterism characteristic
of Western cities. The book contributes to the dialogue surrounding
geography, urban studies, and postcolonial urban development, and
will be of interest to academics working in these fields as well as
human geography, planning, urban politics and East Asian studies.
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