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The Sharing City Seoul: Global imaginaries of the sharing economy and its local realities

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Authors

Fedorenko, Olga

Issue Date
2017-01
Publisher
서울대학교 사회발전연구소
Citation
Development and Society, Vol.46 No.2, pp.373-397
Abstract
This article examines the role of Seoul, South Korea's capital, in the global imaginaries of the sharing economy. Experiments with sharing have been attempted all over the world, but Seoul was the first to proclaim itself a sharing city in September 2012, to much acclaim worldwide. Detailing Seoul's sharing agenda, the article shows that international enthusiasm about Seoul's sharing economy depends on exaggerating its scale and ignoring its complicity with the usual distribution of economic opportunities. My overarching argument, however, is that globally the sharing economy is significant as an imaginary of a post-capitalist future and that, by appearing to be what it was not, the Sharing City Seoul has played an important role in energizing those imaginaries. The article's data comes from public discourses about Seoul's sharing economy and participant observation at its two ritual sites, OuiShare Fest 2016 in Paris and Seoul Sharing Fest 2016.
ISSN
1598-8074
Language
English
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/10371/148449
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21588/dns/2017.46.2.008
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