Jamie Doucette
Biographic Data
| ID | 290832 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jamie Doucette |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jamie |
| FAMILY NAME | Doucette |
| SIGNATURE | DOUCETTE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4006-9841 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 141 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Late Authoritarianism: Change and Continuity in South Korea's Far‐Right Politics
This commentary examines South Korea's recent martial law crisis as an untimely or ‘late’ instance of authoritarian politics. To do so, we note the utility of Hart's (2020) ‘global conjunctural frame’ for situating this event within the broader, global context of right‐wing reaction. We highlight how this approach can help examine not only the discursive connections among far‐right movements but also the novel geopolitical visions and transformat…
The Construction State Unbound? Struggles Over the Seoul Metropolitan Region’s Greenbelt in an Era of Planetary Urbanization
This article builds on recent interventions into the study of planetary urbanization that call for greater interaction with the multiple social struggles and standpoints that embed this process. To do so, we advocate for academic engagement between planetary urbanization and the concept of the ‘construction state’. This is a term used in Japan and South Korea to describe an alliance between development corporations and the state, one whose expans…
Singapore upon the Korea Strait? Cyberlibertarian Desires and Anxious Regulation in Busan's Blockchain Regulation Free Zone
This article examines the intersection of Asia's blockchain industry and special economic zones (SEZs). SEZs have been promoted to localise blockchain technology by disparate actors from cyberlibertarian figures to Asian blockchain firms, national policymakers, and local politicians. This convergence raises questions about what activities are imagined for Asian blockchain zones and what mutations of sovereignty, markets, and democracy they involv…
Converging Histories: South Korea’s Martial Law Crisis in a Global Conjunctural Frame
(En)Gendering Democracy in an Emerging Donor? Gender Equality and Civil Society Participation in Korea's International Development Cooperation Policies
This article examines the politics of change and transition within South Korea's identity as an iconic emerging donor in the field of international development cooperation. From 2017, Korea's assistance policies witnessed a significant transformation under the liberal administration of Moon Jae‐in, whose normative emphasis on democratic values contrasted deeply with the strategic approach taken by previous conservative administrations' assistance…
The politics of post-developmentalist expertise: Progressive movements, strategic localism, and urban governance in Seoul
This article interrogates emergent forms of progressive ‘post-developmentalist’ urban expertise in Seoul, South Korea. We argue that a critical understanding of the nexus between political and civil society forged by pro-democratic activism is necessary to understand the politics of this expertise and the dilemmas it has encountered in creating alternatives to the legacy of developmentalist urbanization and promoting a more inclusive and emancipa…
Anxieties of an emerging donor: The Korean development experience and the politics of international development cooperation
This article examines recent knowledge sharing initiatives aimed at promoting South Korea’s development experience as a ‘development alternative’ and questions the coherence of the narratives being shared. Drawing upon an idea first put forward by Anna Tsing , I discuss how South Korea’s development cooperation initiatives occupy a zone of awkward engagement in which multiple meanings of its experience have proliferated and explore the anxieties …
Inclusive partners? Internationalising South Korea’s chaebol through corporate social responsibility-linked development cooperation
In recent years, non-traditional or ‘emerging’ donors such as South Korea have organised their development cooperation models in a manner that seeks to complement the capacities of the private sector by extending the overseas activities of domestic businesses. To better understand this process, this article examines the role of South Korea’s large, family-led conglomerates (chaebol) in its growing international development sector. In particular, …
Rights, Labor
Labor rights include geographically limited normative and legal rights, universal human rights that pertain to labor relations between workers and their employers, and the collective rights of workers within society; the latter are presumed to be geographically and politically universal but in practice they are unevenly distributed and exercised. In capitalist economies, the collective nature of such rights creates tension with existing property …
Political will and human geography: Non-representational, post-political, and Gramscian geographies
Inspired by philosopher Peter Hallward’s call for a renewed focus on political will, this article examines its conceptualization within three areas of the discipline: non-representational theory, post-politics, and Gramscian geographies. Non-representational theorists draw attention to the role of affect in shaping political life, but have little to say about conscious collective volition. In contrast, post-politics scholars offer an extensive vo…
Trump, turbulence, territory
Urban Developmentalism in East Asia: Geopolitical Economies, Spaces of Exception, and Networks of Expertise
This special issue highlights an exciting range of contemporary, interdisciplinary research into spatial forms, political economic processes, and planning policies that have animated East Asian urbanization. To help situate this research, this introductory article argues that the urban as form, process, and imaginary has often been absent from research on East Asian developmentalism; likewise, the influence of developmentalism on East Asian urban…
Rights, Labor
Labor rights include geographically limited normative and legal rights, universal human rights that pertain to labor relations between workers and their employers, and the collective rights of workers within society; the latter are presumed to be geographically and politically universal but in practice they are unevenly distributed and exercised. In capitalist economies, the collective nature of such rights creates tension with existing property …
Legal geographies of labour and postdemocracy: Reinforcing non‐standard work in South Korea
This paper engages the literature on the legal geographies of labour and postdemocracy in order to examine the role of law in limiting the labour rights of non‐standard workers. To do so, it analyses the effects of civil suits for obstruction of business against workers and trade union activists in South Korea. First embraced by liberal administrations as an alternative to authoritarian forms of labour control, civil suits for obstruction of busi…
The Occult of Personality: Korea's Candlelight Protests and the Impeachment of Park Geun-hye
The phrase "cult of personality" is used more often to describe North Korea's Kim dynasty than the legacy of South Korean dictator Park Chung-hee, father of the recently impeached President Park Geun-hye. And yet Park's legacy has long been mythologized by conservative forces in both Korea and abroad as that of a virtuous and wise political leader. The praise of Park's virtues (especially his "economization of politics," as one prominent conserva…
Exporting the Saemaul spirit: South Korea’s Knowledge Sharing Program and the ‘rendering technical’ of Korean development
Pursuing Post-democratisation: The Resilience of Politics by Public Security in Contemporary South Korea
This article analyses the disputed election of President Park Geun-hye and her administration's confrontation of left-nationalist politicians and other social movements during her first year in office. We argue that the Park administration's policies resonate with contemporary discussions of "post-democratisation," a process whereby social rights are increasingly subordinated to market logics and state power insulated from popular challenges. Und…
Financialization or capitalization? Debating capitalist power in South Korea in the context of neoliberal globalization
The article reviews debates concerning financialization in South Korea, with a focus on ongoing arguments between liberal, post-Keynesian, institutionalist and Marxist economists. It argues that post-Keynesian and institutionalist perspectives in particular neglect important class processes through which the financial circuit operates within the Korean economy, especially the power of Korea's large, family-led conglomerates, or chaebol. In order …
Experimental territoriality: Assembling the Kaesong Industrial Complex in North Korea
Distorting Democracy: Politics by Public Security in Contemporary South Korea
Since our article appeared, there have been several developments that demand the reader's attention. The scale of electoral interference was found to have been more extensive than we originally reported. Last December, prosecutors investigating the case disclosed that the National Intelligence Service (NIS) had produced over a period of two years leading up to the election some 1900 online posts and approximately 22 million Tweets with political …
The Korean Thermidor: On political space and conservative reactions
In Metapolitics , French philosopher Alain Badiou uses the concept of a Thermidorean to denote a political subjectivity constituted through the termination of a political sequence. For Badiou, the actual Thermidor that followed the Jacobin insurrection of the French Revolution was not just a singular event but is a general type of political reaction. Badiou argues that a Thermidor is a reaction that is based on a corruption of political will and …
The Terminal Crisis of the "Participatory Government" and the Election of Lee Myung Bak
This paper examines the election of Lee Myung Bak through the terminal crisis of the Roh Moo Hyun government that preceded it. I start with an analysis of the election of Lee Myung Bak and the electoral strategies of the liberal-progressive bloc in the December 2007 election and then move on to detail how these strategies shed light on tensions within Korean progressive politics since the transition to democracy in 1987. These tensions inform wha…
Between Migrant and Minjung: The Changing Face of Migrant Cultural Activism in Korea
In 1979, Kim Min Gi and other activists from South Korea's democracy and labour movements clandestinely released the collective radio play "Light of a Factory" (Kongchang'ui Bulbit). This work was used to mobilize factory workers into the broad-based minjung or people's movements that were challenging the dictatorship. The play documented the lives of Korean workers and the suppression of their desires under the authoritarian regime. The plot cen…
From Apec to WTO: Trajectories of Protest in Korea and East Asia
Angry protests in Busan, South Korea during an Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference there in November have alarmed Hong Kong police preparing for a mid-December World Trade Organization ministerial conference. Hong Kong police fear that the some of the groups who showed up to protest APEC may also bring strident street protests to Hong Kong. This article examines some of the trajectories of protest apparent at the APEC events by lo…
Exporting the Saemaul spirit: South Korea’s Knowledge Sharing Program and the ‘rendering technical’ of Korean development
Experimental territoriality: Assembling the Kaesong Industrial Complex in North Korea
The Terminal Crisis of the "Participatory Government" and the Election of Lee Myung Bak
This paper examines the election of Lee Myung Bak through the terminal crisis of the Roh Moo Hyun government that preceded it. I start with an analysis of the election of Lee Myung Bak and the electoral strategies of the liberal-progressive bloc in the December 2007 election and then move on to detail how these strategies shed light on tensions within Korean progressive politics since the transition to democracy in 1987. These tensions inform wha…
Pursuing Post-democratisation: The Resilience of Politics by Public Security in Contemporary South Korea
This article analyses the disputed election of President Park Geun-hye and her administration's confrontation of left-nationalist politicians and other social movements during her first year in office. We argue that the Park administration's policies resonate with contemporary discussions of "post-democratisation," a process whereby social rights are increasingly subordinated to market logics and state power insulated from popular challenges. Und…
Urban Developmentalism in East Asia: Geopolitical Economies, Spaces of Exception, and Networks of Expertise
This special issue highlights an exciting range of contemporary, interdisciplinary research into spatial forms, political economic processes, and planning policies that have animated East Asian urbanization. To help situate this research, this introductory article argues that the urban as form, process, and imaginary has often been absent from research on East Asian developmentalism; likewise, the influence of developmentalism on East Asian urban…
Legal geographies of labour and postdemocracy: Reinforcing non‐standard work in South Korea
This paper engages the literature on the legal geographies of labour and postdemocracy in order to examine the role of law in limiting the labour rights of non‐standard workers. To do so, it analyses the effects of civil suits for obstruction of business against workers and trade union activists in South Korea. First embraced by liberal administrations as an alternative to authoritarian forms of labour control, civil suits for obstruction of busi…
Political will and human geography: Non-representational, post-political, and Gramscian geographies
Inspired by philosopher Peter Hallward’s call for a renewed focus on political will, this article examines its conceptualization within three areas of the discipline: non-representational theory, post-politics, and Gramscian geographies. Non-representational theorists draw attention to the role of affect in shaping political life, but have little to say about conscious collective volition. In contrast, post-politics scholars offer an extensive vo…
The Korean Thermidor: On political space and conservative reactions
In Metapolitics , French philosopher Alain Badiou uses the concept of a Thermidorean to denote a political subjectivity constituted through the termination of a political sequence. For Badiou, the actual Thermidor that followed the Jacobin insurrection of the French Revolution was not just a singular event but is a general type of political reaction. Badiou argues that a Thermidor is a reaction that is based on a corruption of political will and …
The politics of post-developmentalist expertise: Progressive movements, strategic localism, and urban governance in Seoul
This article interrogates emergent forms of progressive ‘post-developmentalist’ urban expertise in Seoul, South Korea. We argue that a critical understanding of the nexus between political and civil society forged by pro-democratic activism is necessary to understand the politics of this expertise and the dilemmas it has encountered in creating alternatives to the legacy of developmentalist urbanization and promoting a more inclusive and emancipa…
The Occult of Personality: Korea's Candlelight Protests and the Impeachment of Park Geun-hye
The phrase "cult of personality" is used more often to describe North Korea's Kim dynasty than the legacy of South Korean dictator Park Chung-hee, father of the recently impeached President Park Geun-hye. And yet Park's legacy has long been mythologized by conservative forces in both Korea and abroad as that of a virtuous and wise political leader. The praise of Park's virtues (especially his "economization of politics," as one prominent conserva…
Anxieties of an emerging donor: The Korean development experience and the politics of international development cooperation
This article examines recent knowledge sharing initiatives aimed at promoting South Korea’s development experience as a ‘development alternative’ and questions the coherence of the narratives being shared. Drawing upon an idea first put forward by Anna Tsing , I discuss how South Korea’s development cooperation initiatives occupy a zone of awkward engagement in which multiple meanings of its experience have proliferated and explore the anxieties …
Inclusive partners? Internationalising South Korea’s chaebol through corporate social responsibility-linked development cooperation
In recent years, non-traditional or ‘emerging’ donors such as South Korea have organised their development cooperation models in a manner that seeks to complement the capacities of the private sector by extending the overseas activities of domestic businesses. To better understand this process, this article examines the role of South Korea’s large, family-led conglomerates (chaebol) in its growing international development sector. In particular, …
Trump, turbulence, territory
Converging Histories: South Korea’s Martial Law Crisis in a Global Conjunctural Frame
Financialization or capitalization? Debating capitalist power in South Korea in the context of neoliberal globalization
The article reviews debates concerning financialization in South Korea, with a focus on ongoing arguments between liberal, post-Keynesian, institutionalist and Marxist economists. It argues that post-Keynesian and institutionalist perspectives in particular neglect important class processes through which the financial circuit operates within the Korean economy, especially the power of Korea's large, family-led conglomerates, or chaebol. In order …
From Apec to WTO: Trajectories of Protest in Korea and East Asia
Angry protests in Busan, South Korea during an Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference there in November have alarmed Hong Kong police preparing for a mid-December World Trade Organization ministerial conference. Hong Kong police fear that the some of the groups who showed up to protest APEC may also bring strident street protests to Hong Kong. This article examines some of the trajectories of protest apparent at the APEC events by lo…
The Terminal Crisis of the "Participatory Government" and the Election of Lee Myung Bak
This paper examines the election of Lee Myung Bak through the terminal crisis of the Roh Moo Hyun government that preceded it. I start with an analysis of the election of Lee Myung Bak and the electoral strategies of the liberal-progressive bloc in the December 2007 election and then move on to detail how these strategies shed light on tensions within Korean progressive politics since the transition to democracy in 1987. These tensions inform wha…
Between Migrant and Minjung: The Changing Face of Migrant Cultural Activism in Korea
In 1979, Kim Min Gi and other activists from South Korea's democracy and labour movements clandestinely released the collective radio play "Light of a Factory" (Kongchang'ui Bulbit). This work was used to mobilize factory workers into the broad-based minjung or people's movements that were challenging the dictatorship. The play documented the lives of Korean workers and the suppression of their desires under the authoritarian regime. The plot cen…
The Korean Thermidor: On political space and conservative reactions
In Metapolitics , French philosopher Alain Badiou uses the concept of a Thermidorean to denote a political subjectivity constituted through the termination of a political sequence. For Badiou, the actual Thermidor that followed the Jacobin insurrection of the French Revolution was not just a singular event but is a general type of political reaction. Badiou argues that a Thermidor is a reaction that is based on a corruption of political will and …
Distorting Democracy: Politics by Public Security in Contemporary South Korea
Since our article appeared, there have been several developments that demand the reader's attention. The scale of electoral interference was found to have been more extensive than we originally reported. Last December, prosecutors investigating the case disclosed that the National Intelligence Service (NIS) had produced over a period of two years leading up to the election some 1900 online posts and approximately 22 million Tweets with political …
Experimental territoriality: Assembling the Kaesong Industrial Complex in North Korea
Exporting the Saemaul spirit: South Korea’s Knowledge Sharing Program and the ‘rendering technical’ of Korean development
Pursuing Post-democratisation: The Resilience of Politics by Public Security in Contemporary South Korea
This article analyses the disputed election of President Park Geun-hye and her administration's confrontation of left-nationalist politicians and other social movements during her first year in office. We argue that the Park administration's policies resonate with contemporary discussions of "post-democratisation," a process whereby social rights are increasingly subordinated to market logics and state power insulated from popular challenges. Und…
Financialization or capitalization? Debating capitalist power in South Korea in the context of neoliberal globalization
The article reviews debates concerning financialization in South Korea, with a focus on ongoing arguments between liberal, post-Keynesian, institutionalist and Marxist economists. It argues that post-Keynesian and institutionalist perspectives in particular neglect important class processes through which the financial circuit operates within the Korean economy, especially the power of Korea's large, family-led conglomerates, or chaebol. In order …
Rights, Labor
Labor rights include geographically limited normative and legal rights, universal human rights that pertain to labor relations between workers and their employers, and the collective rights of workers within society; the latter are presumed to be geographically and politically universal but in practice they are unevenly distributed and exercised. In capitalist economies, the collective nature of such rights creates tension with existing property …
Legal geographies of labour and postdemocracy: Reinforcing non‐standard work in South Korea
This paper engages the literature on the legal geographies of labour and postdemocracy in order to examine the role of law in limiting the labour rights of non‐standard workers. To do so, it analyses the effects of civil suits for obstruction of business against workers and trade union activists in South Korea. First embraced by liberal administrations as an alternative to authoritarian forms of labour control, civil suits for obstruction of busi…
The Occult of Personality: Korea's Candlelight Protests and the Impeachment of Park Geun-hye
The phrase "cult of personality" is used more often to describe North Korea's Kim dynasty than the legacy of South Korean dictator Park Chung-hee, father of the recently impeached President Park Geun-hye. And yet Park's legacy has long been mythologized by conservative forces in both Korea and abroad as that of a virtuous and wise political leader. The praise of Park's virtues (especially his "economization of politics," as one prominent conserva…
Urban Developmentalism in East Asia: Geopolitical Economies, Spaces of Exception, and Networks of Expertise
This special issue highlights an exciting range of contemporary, interdisciplinary research into spatial forms, political economic processes, and planning policies that have animated East Asian urbanization. To help situate this research, this introductory article argues that the urban as form, process, and imaginary has often been absent from research on East Asian developmentalism; likewise, the influence of developmentalism on East Asian urban…
Rights, Labor
Labor rights include geographically limited normative and legal rights, universal human rights that pertain to labor relations between workers and their employers, and the collective rights of workers within society; the latter are presumed to be geographically and politically universal but in practice they are unevenly distributed and exercised. In capitalist economies, the collective nature of such rights creates tension with existing property …
Political will and human geography: Non-representational, post-political, and Gramscian geographies
Inspired by philosopher Peter Hallward’s call for a renewed focus on political will, this article examines its conceptualization within three areas of the discipline: non-representational theory, post-politics, and Gramscian geographies. Non-representational theorists draw attention to the role of affect in shaping political life, but have little to say about conscious collective volition. In contrast, post-politics scholars offer an extensive vo…
Trump, turbulence, territory
Anxieties of an emerging donor: The Korean development experience and the politics of international development cooperation
This article examines recent knowledge sharing initiatives aimed at promoting South Korea’s development experience as a ‘development alternative’ and questions the coherence of the narratives being shared. Drawing upon an idea first put forward by Anna Tsing , I discuss how South Korea’s development cooperation initiatives occupy a zone of awkward engagement in which multiple meanings of its experience have proliferated and explore the anxieties …
Inclusive partners? Internationalising South Korea’s chaebol through corporate social responsibility-linked development cooperation
In recent years, non-traditional or ‘emerging’ donors such as South Korea have organised their development cooperation models in a manner that seeks to complement the capacities of the private sector by extending the overseas activities of domestic businesses. To better understand this process, this article examines the role of South Korea’s large, family-led conglomerates (chaebol) in its growing international development sector. In particular, …
The politics of post-developmentalist expertise: Progressive movements, strategic localism, and urban governance in Seoul
This article interrogates emergent forms of progressive ‘post-developmentalist’ urban expertise in Seoul, South Korea. We argue that a critical understanding of the nexus between political and civil society forged by pro-democratic activism is necessary to understand the politics of this expertise and the dilemmas it has encountered in creating alternatives to the legacy of developmentalist urbanization and promoting a more inclusive and emancipa…
The Construction State Unbound? Struggles Over the Seoul Metropolitan Region’s Greenbelt in an Era of Planetary Urbanization
This article builds on recent interventions into the study of planetary urbanization that call for greater interaction with the multiple social struggles and standpoints that embed this process. To do so, we advocate for academic engagement between planetary urbanization and the concept of the ‘construction state’. This is a term used in Japan and South Korea to describe an alliance between development corporations and the state, one whose expans…
Singapore upon the Korea Strait? Cyberlibertarian Desires and Anxious Regulation in Busan's Blockchain Regulation Free Zone
This article examines the intersection of Asia's blockchain industry and special economic zones (SEZs). SEZs have been promoted to localise blockchain technology by disparate actors from cyberlibertarian figures to Asian blockchain firms, national policymakers, and local politicians. This convergence raises questions about what activities are imagined for Asian blockchain zones and what mutations of sovereignty, markets, and democracy they involv…
Converging Histories: South Korea’s Martial Law Crisis in a Global Conjunctural Frame
(En)Gendering Democracy in an Emerging Donor? Gender Equality and Civil Society Participation in Korea's International Development Cooperation Policies
This article examines the politics of change and transition within South Korea's identity as an iconic emerging donor in the field of international development cooperation. From 2017, Korea's assistance policies witnessed a significant transformation under the liberal administration of Moon Jae‐in, whose normative emphasis on democratic values contrasted deeply with the strategic approach taken by previous conservative administrations' assistance…
Late Authoritarianism: Change and Continuity in South Korea's Far‐Right Politics
This commentary examines South Korea's recent martial law crisis as an untimely or ‘late’ instance of authoritarian politics. To do so, we note the utility of Hart's (2020) ‘global conjunctural frame’ for situating this event within the broader, global context of right‐wing reaction. We highlight how this approach can help examine not only the discursive connections among far‐right movements but also the novel geopolitical visions and transformat…
Political science (22 works) · Law (18 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Politics (15 works) · Political economy (14 works) · Law (10 works) · Democracy (9 works) · Economics (9 works) · Asian Industrial and Economic Development (8 works) · Public Administration (6 works)