Soyeun Kim
Biographic Data
| ID | 5437370 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Soyeun Kim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Soyeun |
| FAMILY NAME | Kim |
| SIGNATURE | KIM S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5579-9142 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Development Knowledge in the Making
Development knowledge sharing (DKS) by Japan, South Korea and China has rapidly expanded over the last decade. However, little scholarly attention has been paid to the nature and processes of their claimed-to-be ‘unique’ development knowledge production. To address this research gap, we explore their international development studies (IDS) as key sites where researchers and resources are ‘mobilized’ under high-level policy initiatives. We find th…
Rendering (in-)visible
In contrast to expectations that the greater visibility of aid increases the donor's prestige, this paper examines why certain donor countries may seek to render their aid programs invisible. As the case of Japan's early Triangular Development Cooperation (TDC) in Southeast Asia demonstrates, donors at times seek to conceal their presence to better secure their national interests. By approaching this (in-)visibility puzzle through the focus on it…
Fuelling Development? The Rise of New Development Finance in Korea’s Overseas Energy Cooperation with Southeast Asia
Overseas development aid as spatial fix? Examining South Korea’s Africa policy
This paper examines the extent to which South Korea’s developmental aid programme to Africa can be understood as a form of ‘aid as imperialism’. We argue against the depiction of a crude determinism between the ‘interests of capital’ and the international activism of the South Korean state through aid provision. Drawing on Harvey’s theory of the new imperialism, we argue that, while the structural transformations in the South Korean political eco…
Bringing the other into political ecology
For all its vitality political ecology often appears to be a project in which work by Anglo‐Americans in particular, if it is not privileged, certainly predominates. This trend reflects wider language and intellectual tendencies in human geography and the social sciences that distort the development of the field by downplaying or obscuring the contributions of many non‐Anglo‐Americans and by naturalizing Anglo‐American assumptions at the heart of…
Contextualizing other political ecologies
This paper argues for the utility of a focus on contextualized sources of environmental change to address the ever more diverse contexts of political ecology. In order to overcome the conventional approach to contextual sources that has tended to be analytically one‐dimensional and limited, I seek to provide a more nuanced account, notably by examining the neglected case of green aid of a nonwestern aid donor, Japan. Using conceptual tools that a…
Other political ecologies
Japan's ‘Common but Differentiated’ Approach to Sustainable Development and Climate Change in Africa
In the midst of heightened apprehension of the climate risks to development, major donors in Africa have begun to take environmental issues seriously in their aid agenda by setting up various climate policy initiatives and programs. In keeping with the international donors' efforts, Japan has also emphasised the environmental issues in its development cooperation with Africa. The article aims to assess Japan's efforts to address sustainable as we…
Greening the Dam
Translating Sustainable Development
This article considers how the sustainable development paradigm of the 1990s has been transferred from Western donor circles to a non-Western donor, Japan, and has been “translated” in the implementation of Japan's international cooperation policy. In so doing, the article discusses issues of “greening” with relation to foreign aid, and more specifically Japan's bilateral international cooperation. It highlights how dynamics of cultural politics …
Overseas development aid as spatial fix? Examining South Korea’s Africa policy
This paper examines the extent to which South Korea’s developmental aid programme to Africa can be understood as a form of ‘aid as imperialism’. We argue against the depiction of a crude determinism between the ‘interests of capital’ and the international activism of the South Korean state through aid provision. Drawing on Harvey’s theory of the new imperialism, we argue that, while the structural transformations in the South Korean political eco…
Fuelling Development? The Rise of New Development Finance in Korea’s Overseas Energy Cooperation with Southeast Asia
Greening the Dam
Rendering (in-)visible
In contrast to expectations that the greater visibility of aid increases the donor's prestige, this paper examines why certain donor countries may seek to render their aid programs invisible. As the case of Japan's early Triangular Development Cooperation (TDC) in Southeast Asia demonstrates, donors at times seek to conceal their presence to better secure their national interests. By approaching this (in-)visibility puzzle through the focus on it…
Translating Sustainable Development
This article considers how the sustainable development paradigm of the 1990s has been transferred from Western donor circles to a non-Western donor, Japan, and has been “translated” in the implementation of Japan's international cooperation policy. In so doing, the article discusses issues of “greening” with relation to foreign aid, and more specifically Japan's bilateral international cooperation. It highlights how dynamics of cultural politics …
Translating Sustainable Development
This article considers how the sustainable development paradigm of the 1990s has been transferred from Western donor circles to a non-Western donor, Japan, and has been “translated” in the implementation of Japan's international cooperation policy. In so doing, the article discusses issues of “greening” with relation to foreign aid, and more specifically Japan's bilateral international cooperation. It highlights how dynamics of cultural politics …
Greening the Dam
Bringing the other into political ecology
For all its vitality political ecology often appears to be a project in which work by Anglo‐Americans in particular, if it is not privileged, certainly predominates. This trend reflects wider language and intellectual tendencies in human geography and the social sciences that distort the development of the field by downplaying or obscuring the contributions of many non‐Anglo‐Americans and by naturalizing Anglo‐American assumptions at the heart of…
Contextualizing other political ecologies
This paper argues for the utility of a focus on contextualized sources of environmental change to address the ever more diverse contexts of political ecology. In order to overcome the conventional approach to contextual sources that has tended to be analytically one‐dimensional and limited, I seek to provide a more nuanced account, notably by examining the neglected case of green aid of a nonwestern aid donor, Japan. Using conceptual tools that a…
Other political ecologies
Japan's ‘Common but Differentiated’ Approach to Sustainable Development and Climate Change in Africa
In the midst of heightened apprehension of the climate risks to development, major donors in Africa have begun to take environmental issues seriously in their aid agenda by setting up various climate policy initiatives and programs. In keeping with the international donors' efforts, Japan has also emphasised the environmental issues in its development cooperation with Africa. The article aims to assess Japan's efforts to address sustainable as we…
Overseas development aid as spatial fix? Examining South Korea’s Africa policy
This paper examines the extent to which South Korea’s developmental aid programme to Africa can be understood as a form of ‘aid as imperialism’. We argue against the depiction of a crude determinism between the ‘interests of capital’ and the international activism of the South Korean state through aid provision. Drawing on Harvey’s theory of the new imperialism, we argue that, while the structural transformations in the South Korean political eco…
Fuelling Development? The Rise of New Development Finance in Korea’s Overseas Energy Cooperation with Southeast Asia
Rendering (in-)visible
In contrast to expectations that the greater visibility of aid increases the donor's prestige, this paper examines why certain donor countries may seek to render their aid programs invisible. As the case of Japan's early Triangular Development Cooperation (TDC) in Southeast Asia demonstrates, donors at times seek to conceal their presence to better secure their national interests. By approaching this (in-)visibility puzzle through the focus on it…
Development Knowledge in the Making
Development knowledge sharing (DKS) by Japan, South Korea and China has rapidly expanded over the last decade. However, little scholarly attention has been paid to the nature and processes of their claimed-to-be ‘unique’ development knowledge production. To address this research gap, we explore their international development studies (IDS) as key sites where researchers and resources are ‘mobilized’ under high-level policy initiatives. We find th…
Political science (10 works) · International Development and Aid (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Development economics (4 works) · Geography (4 works)