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Territorial Politics and the Rise of a Construction-Oriented State in South Korea
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dc.contributor.author | Park, Bae Gyoon | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-02-15T02:39:46Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2012-02-15T02:39:46Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Korean Social Sciences Review(KSSR), Vol.1 No.1, pp. 185-220 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 2234-4039 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10371/75201 | - |
dc.description | Translated from the published article in Space and Environmemt 31: 49-87, 2009 with permission from the The Korean Association of Space and Environment Research. | - |
dc.description.abstract | There have been some critical debates about the construction-oriented, developmentalist
nature of the Korean state among the Korean scholars. However, no clear explanation has emerged for why the Korean state adopted such construction-oriented, developmentalist selectivity. This paper seeks to answer this question of why the construction-oriented state has developed in South Korea by employing the strategic-relational approach to the state. In this paper, the author argues that the construction-oriented, developmentalist nature of the Korean state has been strengthened because at the local and regional scales, highly politicized territorial interests have been mobilized as a result of complex interactions among spatial selectivity of the Korean state, uneven regional development and territorialized party politics from the 1960s to the present. More specifically, the author emphasizes that the following conditions were the most influential in the formation and intensification of constructionoriented state building: 1) As the central cleavage structure of party politics is based on locality, parties and politicians easily accept local developmental politics, and thereby influence governmental decision-making according to regional interests; 2) Due to the weak development of class politics (at the national scale) and immature grass-root democracy (at the local scale), place-based interests and identities tend to be strongly territorialized; 3) Continuing from the 1970s and influenced by the politics of regionalism, the ways in which the Koreans interpret the political and economic realities has been constructed on the basis of the discursive frame of the highly politicized center-local relations, which has led to the intensified inter-local/inter-regional competition for the central governments spending on local/regioinal development projects. Based on this analysis, this paper argues that the situation of South Koreas neo-developmentalism and construction-oriented tendency needs to be understood through the mechanisms of more complex political, social, and economic conflicts and interaction effects among social forces acting in and through the state, and that the question cannot be explained simply by the irrationality, incapacity, and immorality of the government and its officials. | - |
dc.language.iso | en | - |
dc.publisher | Center for Social Sciences, Seoul National University | - |
dc.subject | Construction State | - |
dc.subject | New developmentalism | - |
dc.subject | Politics of devel | - |
dc.subject | Territorialization | - |
dc.subject | Strategic relational approach | - |
dc.subject | State space | - |
dc.title | Territorial Politics and the Rise of a Construction-Oriented State in South Korea | - |
dc.type | SNU Journal | - |
dc.contributor.AlternativeAuthor | 박배균 | - |
dc.citation.journaltitle | Korean Social Sciences Review(KSSR) | - |
dc.citation.endpage | 220 | - |
dc.citation.number | 1 | - |
dc.citation.pages | 185-220 | - |
dc.citation.startpage | 185 | - |
dc.citation.volume | 1 | - |
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