From Camp Town to International City
Us Military Base Expansion and Local Development in Pyeongtaek, South Korea
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4382299 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Martins (0000-0003-1961-8188, University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author), Bridget Martin (Department of Geography University of California Berkeley, 505 McCone Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 967-985 |
| Publication date | 2018-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-1317 • E-ISSN: 1468-2427 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-2427.12698 |
| OpenAlex | W2900427243 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 33 |
In Pyeongtaek, South Korea, the US military is currently completing construction of its largest overseas base, and tens of thousands of American troops, civilian workers and accompanying family members are relocating to the city. Activist and civil society groups fiercely opposed base expansion in Pyeongtaek, leading to violent confrontations with police in 2006. As many scholars have pointed out, the country's 1980s democratization and 1990s decentralization created the conditions in which such vocal anti-US and anti-base politics became possible. Yet it was under the very same conditions that South Korea's central government harnessed local aspirations for urban growth to counter the anti-base protests. By deregulating land use in Pyeongtaek and promising support for a number of major urban projects, the central government sought to build support for US expansion in the city and re-cast militarization as a desirable form of 'international city' development. Haunted by the specter of gritty soldier-entertainment 'camp town' areas and eager to see urban growth, the city government joined with the central government in constructing Pyeongtaek's new urban vision. However, new projects intended as a form of collective compensation displaced thousands and sparked new protest movements
Central government · Decentralization · Democracy · Democratization · Economic growth · Economy · Entertainment · Government (linguistics) · Local government · Militarization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law · Public Administration · Urbanization and City Planning
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Anti‐Prostitution Politics and Militarised Urban Prosperity in the US Military Camptown in Korea
Cost tolerance and South Korean public perceptions of the US military presence
Trump, turbulence, territory
Untangling the Security-Development Nexus of the US Military Camptowns in South Korea
Over There
New State Spaces
The Rise Of The Gunbelt
Covert Capital
Okinawa and the U.S. Military
Base Encounters
Activists, Alliances, and Anti-U.S. Base Protests
Militarized Modernity and Gendered Citizenship in South Korea
U.S. Military Base Realignment in South Korea
Island of shame
Contesting State Rescaling
Relocating the U.S. Forces in South Korea
Outposts of Empire
Reconceiving Military Base Redevelopment
Civil society and local activism in South Korea's local democratization
Spatially selective liberalization and graduated sovereignty
The geopolitics/geoeconomics of military base closures in the USA
Regional Processes in the Hegemonic Nation
Uneven Development, Inter-scalar Tensions, and the Politics of Decentralization in South Korea
Protesting the Expansion of US Military Bases in Pyeongtaek
Global and world cities
Situating the city and September 11th
Fracturing Hegemony
A tale of two industrial zones
The Chaebol and the US Military-Industrial Complex
The Transformation of Sexual Work in 20th-Century Korea
Modernity and the Urban Imagination in Economic Zones
Living Beirut's Security Zones
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |