1 The Idea of Chinatown: Rethinking Cities from the Periphery

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Editors’ Note ix
5. Abbreviations xi
6. Introduction: Core Location, Asia as Method, and a Relational Understanding of Places 1
7. 1 The Idea of Chinatown: Rethinking Cities from the Periphery 21
8. 2 Seeing the Development of Jeju Global Education City from the Margins 43
9. 3 Against the Construction State: Korean Pro-greenbelt Activism as Method 65
10. 4 Marriage Migration as Spatio-Temporal Fix in Pohang’s Post-Industrial Urban Development through Saemaul 89
11. 5 “Locations of Reflexivity”: South Korean Community Activism and Its Affective Promise for “Solidarity” 114
12. 6 The Education Welfare Project at Pine Tree Hill: A Core Location to Assess Distributional and Transitional Forms of Justice 138
13. 7 Situating the Space of Labour: Activism, Work, and Urban Regeneration 163
14. Afterword 187
15. Contributors 193