Myung In Ji
Biographic Data
| ID | 4196402 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Myung In Ji |
| GIVEN NAMES | Myung In |
| FAMILY NAME | Ji |
| SIGNATURE | JI M I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1903-2662 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
All Possible Pasts
Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized only as simulacra —a process of becoming that generates new trajectories and connections to all possible …
The fantasy of authenticity
Gentrification studies have well-documented how gentrifiers' alternative consumption practices of seeking 'authenticity' lead to retail gentrification. However, they pay scant attention to the paradoxical subjects of gentrification who continue to take part in gentrification by consuming authenticity, even as they criticize the gentrification-driven loss of authenticity. Drawing upon Lacanian psychoanalysis and ethnographic research in one of the…
The fantasy of authenticity
Gentrification studies have well-documented how gentrifiers' alternative consumption practices of seeking 'authenticity' lead to retail gentrification. However, they pay scant attention to the paradoxical subjects of gentrification who continue to take part in gentrification by consuming authenticity, even as they criticize the gentrification-driven loss of authenticity. Drawing upon Lacanian psychoanalysis and ethnographic research in one of the…
The fantasy of authenticity
Gentrification studies have well-documented how gentrifiers' alternative consumption practices of seeking 'authenticity' lead to retail gentrification. However, they pay scant attention to the paradoxical subjects of gentrification who continue to take part in gentrification by consuming authenticity, even as they criticize the gentrification-driven loss of authenticity. Drawing upon Lacanian psychoanalysis and ethnographic research in one of the…
All Possible Pasts
Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized only as simulacra —a process of becoming that generates new trajectories and connections to all possible …
Ethnography (2 works) · Gentrification (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Cityscape (1 work) · Commercialization (1 work) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (1 work) · Dichotomy (1 work) · Economic growth (1 work)