Jesook Song
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584542 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jesook Song |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jesook |
| FAMILY NAME | Song |
| SIGNATURE | SONG J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3694-0139 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Anticolonialism to postcolonialism to decolonialization/decoloniality
Stitching the 24-Hour City
Stitching the 24-Hour City would be an excellent text for courses that offer subjects of contemporary Korea as much as the book is pertinent to be read in the classes of urban studies, anthropology of temporality, and feminist labor studies. It presents ethnographic material, treated with utmost sensitivity and conceptual sophistication. The book's prose endeavors to embody the principle of “a stitch at a time” (han ttam han ttam), an expression …
Curative Violence
Curative Violence focuses on disability as confined to a particular temporal imagination through the violent imperatives to “cure” in the context of modern Korean history, which was fraught with colonial and postcolonial / Cold War legacies and produced in conjunction with norms and normativity regarding gender, sexuality, and nondisabled bodies. It is a remarkable book that combines critical thinking with transnational and postcolonial feminist …
Introduction
Nancy Abelmann passed away on January 6, 2016, at the age of fifty-six. She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990, after completing her dissertation under Nelson Graburn. That same year, she was hired by the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she worked for two and a half decades. She was a beloved teacher, mentor, and colleague to many, and she was a key figure in multiple departments and centers. At t…
Gendered Care Work as "Free Labor" in State Employment
This article draws on ethnographic research to elucidate ways in which young women's care labor is appropriated by the state as "free labor" in South Korea. Building upon John Krinsky's notion of free labor as state-orchestrated exploitation of public sector workers and Kyounghee Kim's research on gendered care labor, this article examines the gendered experience of school social workers who are certified at a lower level than professional social…
A Relentlessly Productive Venue”
Rebecca Karl, Tom Lamarre, Claudia Pozzana, Alessandro Russo, Naoki Sakai, Jesook Song, and Angela Zito interview Senior Editor Tani Barlow, posing a series of question on history, politics, confiict, Cold War scholarship, and the struggle over so-called area studies. Topics raised and considered include the history of the journal's founding, critical reminiscence of the project's early years of publications and intellectual politics, historical …
Positioning Asia in a Global Future? An Example through Rethinking Finance
As a response to positions' twentieth-anniversary workshop that solicited suggestions on the future direction of the journal, this article raises questions on how to study Asia without falling into traps of reproducing capitalist discourse that reduces the significance of Asia to its economic value. By contextualizing ways in which Asia is commodified as a promise to the global future at the same time it is chastised as yet to be civilized for th…
Situating Homelessness in South Korea During and After the Asian Debt Crisis
This study traces homeless policies in South Korea that were established during and after the Asian Debt Crisis of 1998-2001. Similarities and differences between South Korea and the United States are compared regarding the neoliberal regulation of the poor and their urban space and highlights the South Korean division of the homeless into those deserving of and undeserving of state welfare relief. Despite superficial differences between South Ko…
New Millennium South Korea
New millennium South Korea
Despite the common held belief that Asian nations have displayed anti-market tendencies of under-consumption and export-oriented trade since the Asian financial crisis, in the 10 years since the crisis, South Korea has bucked this trend accruing a higher debt rate than the US. This groundbreaking collection of essays addresses questions such as how did the open market policies and restructuring processes implemented during the Asian financial cri…
A room of one's own’
This article explores the experiences of single South Korean women in their late twenties to late thirties in their pursuit of an independent living space. Looking at the struggles of these women to acquire ‘a room of one's own’, I first argue that the process of their spatial independence reveals the problematic inherent in South Korea's heterosexually marriage-centered housing and loan-lending structure. Further, rather than simply portraying t…
South Koreans in the Debt Crisis
Between Flexible Life and Flexible Labor
■ This article contextualizes the historical emergence of liberal socialism (socialism with a strong stance against the state and social power over individual) in South Korea and its inadvertent convergence with neoliberalism. By observing experiences of three leftist single independent women who embodied liberal socialism through the democratization movement towards neoliberalization (1987-2007), this article situates ways in which South Korean …
The Making of 'Undeserving' Homeless Women
The Asian Debt Crisis of 1997-2001 led to drastically higher levels of unemployment, resulting in enormous social anxiety and shock. For the first time in its history, South Korea's attention was forcibly drawn to homeless people. Both the new government of the first civilian president, Kim Dae Jung, and an emerging civil society began to pay unprecedented attention to homeless issues. In this new context, homelessness was constructed as a produc…
Venture Companies,’ ‘Flexible Labor,’ and the ‘New Intellectual’
This paper explores the socio-political context of the neoliberal subjectification of youth in a particular moment of South Korean history 1997–2001, the confluence of the Asian Debt Crisis and the ascendancy of the nation's first civilian president with no affiliation to the military, Kim Dae Jung. The changing value of underemployed youth, suddenly represented as ‘deserving welfare citizens’ and valuable human capital, demonstrated the vast pen…
Family Breakdown and Invisible Homeless Women
Research Article| February 01 2006 Family Breakdown and Invisible Homeless Women: Neoliberal Governance During the Asian Debt Crisis in South Korea, 1997-2001 Jesook Song Jesook Song Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2006) 14 (1): 37–66. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-14-1-37 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Jesook Song; Family Breakdown and Invi…
Historicization of Homeless Spaces
This paper historicizes "deserving" citizenship of South Korea by tracing spatial changes and meanings of two places: Seoul Train Station Square and a former textile factory renovated to a homeless shelter. Both have been emblematic space where the most homeless people were populated since the break of the Asian Debt Crisis. However, each place embodies different history of "deserving" citizenship in a complementary way. The square, a politically…
Family Breakdown and Invisible Homeless Women
Research Article| February 01 2006 Family Breakdown and Invisible Homeless Women: Neoliberal Governance During the Asian Debt Crisis in South Korea, 1997-2001 Jesook Song Jesook Song Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2006) 14 (1): 37–66. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-14-1-37 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Jesook Song; Family Breakdown and Invi…
A room of one's own’
This article explores the experiences of single South Korean women in their late twenties to late thirties in their pursuit of an independent living space. Looking at the struggles of these women to acquire ‘a room of one's own’, I first argue that the process of their spatial independence reveals the problematic inherent in South Korea's heterosexually marriage-centered housing and loan-lending structure. Further, rather than simply portraying t…
Historicization of Homeless Spaces
This paper historicizes "deserving" citizenship of South Korea by tracing spatial changes and meanings of two places: Seoul Train Station Square and a former textile factory renovated to a homeless shelter. Both have been emblematic space where the most homeless people were populated since the break of the Asian Debt Crisis. However, each place embodies different history of "deserving" citizenship in a complementary way. The square, a politically…
Between Flexible Life and Flexible Labor
■ This article contextualizes the historical emergence of liberal socialism (socialism with a strong stance against the state and social power over individual) in South Korea and its inadvertent convergence with neoliberalism. By observing experiences of three leftist single independent women who embodied liberal socialism through the democratization movement towards neoliberalization (1987-2007), this article situates ways in which South Korean …
Venture Companies,’ ‘Flexible Labor,’ and the ‘New Intellectual’
This paper explores the socio-political context of the neoliberal subjectification of youth in a particular moment of South Korean history 1997–2001, the confluence of the Asian Debt Crisis and the ascendancy of the nation's first civilian president with no affiliation to the military, Kim Dae Jung. The changing value of underemployed youth, suddenly represented as ‘deserving welfare citizens’ and valuable human capital, demonstrated the vast pen…
Situating Homelessness in South Korea During and After the Asian Debt Crisis
This study traces homeless policies in South Korea that were established during and after the Asian Debt Crisis of 1998-2001. Similarities and differences between South Korea and the United States are compared regarding the neoliberal regulation of the poor and their urban space and highlights the South Korean division of the homeless into those deserving of and undeserving of state welfare relief. Despite superficial differences between South Ko…
The Making of 'Undeserving' Homeless Women
The Asian Debt Crisis of 1997-2001 led to drastically higher levels of unemployment, resulting in enormous social anxiety and shock. For the first time in its history, South Korea's attention was forcibly drawn to homeless people. Both the new government of the first civilian president, Kim Dae Jung, and an emerging civil society began to pay unprecedented attention to homeless issues. In this new context, homelessness was constructed as a produc…
Anticolonialism to postcolonialism to decolonialization/decoloniality
Family Breakdown and Invisible Homeless Women
Research Article| February 01 2006 Family Breakdown and Invisible Homeless Women: Neoliberal Governance During the Asian Debt Crisis in South Korea, 1997-2001 Jesook Song Jesook Song Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2006) 14 (1): 37–66. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-14-1-37 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Jesook Song; Family Breakdown and Invi…
Historicization of Homeless Spaces
This paper historicizes "deserving" citizenship of South Korea by tracing spatial changes and meanings of two places: Seoul Train Station Square and a former textile factory renovated to a homeless shelter. Both have been emblematic space where the most homeless people were populated since the break of the Asian Debt Crisis. However, each place embodies different history of "deserving" citizenship in a complementary way. The square, a politically…
Venture Companies,’ ‘Flexible Labor,’ and the ‘New Intellectual’
This paper explores the socio-political context of the neoliberal subjectification of youth in a particular moment of South Korean history 1997–2001, the confluence of the Asian Debt Crisis and the ascendancy of the nation's first civilian president with no affiliation to the military, Kim Dae Jung. The changing value of underemployed youth, suddenly represented as ‘deserving welfare citizens’ and valuable human capital, demonstrated the vast pen…
The Making of 'Undeserving' Homeless Women
The Asian Debt Crisis of 1997-2001 led to drastically higher levels of unemployment, resulting in enormous social anxiety and shock. For the first time in its history, South Korea's attention was forcibly drawn to homeless people. Both the new government of the first civilian president, Kim Dae Jung, and an emerging civil society began to pay unprecedented attention to homeless issues. In this new context, homelessness was constructed as a produc…
South Koreans in the Debt Crisis
Between Flexible Life and Flexible Labor
■ This article contextualizes the historical emergence of liberal socialism (socialism with a strong stance against the state and social power over individual) in South Korea and its inadvertent convergence with neoliberalism. By observing experiences of three leftist single independent women who embodied liberal socialism through the democratization movement towards neoliberalization (1987-2007), this article situates ways in which South Korean …
New Millennium South Korea
New millennium South Korea
Despite the common held belief that Asian nations have displayed anti-market tendencies of under-consumption and export-oriented trade since the Asian financial crisis, in the 10 years since the crisis, South Korea has bucked this trend accruing a higher debt rate than the US. This groundbreaking collection of essays addresses questions such as how did the open market policies and restructuring processes implemented during the Asian financial cri…
A room of one's own’
This article explores the experiences of single South Korean women in their late twenties to late thirties in their pursuit of an independent living space. Looking at the struggles of these women to acquire ‘a room of one's own’, I first argue that the process of their spatial independence reveals the problematic inherent in South Korea's heterosexually marriage-centered housing and loan-lending structure. Further, rather than simply portraying t…
Situating Homelessness in South Korea During and After the Asian Debt Crisis
This study traces homeless policies in South Korea that were established during and after the Asian Debt Crisis of 1998-2001. Similarities and differences between South Korea and the United States are compared regarding the neoliberal regulation of the poor and their urban space and highlights the South Korean division of the homeless into those deserving of and undeserving of state welfare relief. Despite superficial differences between South Ko…
A Relentlessly Productive Venue”
Rebecca Karl, Tom Lamarre, Claudia Pozzana, Alessandro Russo, Naoki Sakai, Jesook Song, and Angela Zito interview Senior Editor Tani Barlow, posing a series of question on history, politics, confiict, Cold War scholarship, and the struggle over so-called area studies. Topics raised and considered include the history of the journal's founding, critical reminiscence of the project's early years of publications and intellectual politics, historical …
Positioning Asia in a Global Future? An Example through Rethinking Finance
As a response to positions' twentieth-anniversary workshop that solicited suggestions on the future direction of the journal, this article raises questions on how to study Asia without falling into traps of reproducing capitalist discourse that reduces the significance of Asia to its economic value. By contextualizing ways in which Asia is commodified as a promise to the global future at the same time it is chastised as yet to be civilized for th…
Gendered Care Work as "Free Labor" in State Employment
This article draws on ethnographic research to elucidate ways in which young women's care labor is appropriated by the state as "free labor" in South Korea. Building upon John Krinsky's notion of free labor as state-orchestrated exploitation of public sector workers and Kyounghee Kim's research on gendered care labor, this article examines the gendered experience of school social workers who are certified at a lower level than professional social…
Curative Violence
Curative Violence focuses on disability as confined to a particular temporal imagination through the violent imperatives to “cure” in the context of modern Korean history, which was fraught with colonial and postcolonial / Cold War legacies and produced in conjunction with norms and normativity regarding gender, sexuality, and nondisabled bodies. It is a remarkable book that combines critical thinking with transnational and postcolonial feminist …
Introduction
Nancy Abelmann passed away on January 6, 2016, at the age of fifty-six. She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990, after completing her dissertation under Nelson Graburn. That same year, she was hired by the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she worked for two and a half decades. She was a beloved teacher, mentor, and colleague to many, and she was a key figure in multiple departments and centers. At t…
Stitching the 24-Hour City
Stitching the 24-Hour City would be an excellent text for courses that offer subjects of contemporary Korea as much as the book is pertinent to be read in the classes of urban studies, anthropology of temporality, and feminist labor studies. It presents ethnographic material, treated with utmost sensitivity and conceptual sophistication. The book's prose endeavors to embody the principle of “a stitch at a time” (han ttam han ttam), an expression …
Anticolonialism to postcolonialism to decolonialization/decoloniality
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works)