For Alternative 21st Century Geographies

Schedule at a glance

WEDNESDAY, August 9th, 2000 3:00 - 5:00 pm OPENING SESSION Introduction: Byung-Doo Choi Dialectics of Utopian Space Blanca Ramirez The Politics of constructing an International Critical Geography Group 5:00 pm RECEPTION and PARTY

THURSDAY, August 10th, 2000 9:30 - 11:30 am People's Geographies I: Strategies of Popularization and Solidarity: Approaches to People's Geographies Donald Mitchell People's Geography in the United States: Steps Towards a Radical Popularization Marion Traub-Warner & Altha J. Cravey Sweatshops, Solidarity, and Guatemala Blanca Ramirez Why is Geography so conservative? Social practice and a lack of and alternative project Neil Smith Marxism and Critical Geography 11:30 - 1:00 pm LUNCH 1:00 - 3:00 pm Local Responses to Economic Change in East Asia Bae-Gyoon Park Economic Change and 'Regionalist' Local Development Politics in South Korea Hyung-Je Jo The Industrial restructuring in Ulsan after the economic crisis Sung-Kyun Lee Economic Crisis and the Unemployment Policies at the Korean Industrial City: A Case Study of Ulsan 1:00 - 3:00 pm Panel Discussion: (Re)placing Tourists: Critical perspectives on spaces of travel Tim Oakes, Claudio Minca, Carolyn Cartier, Jon Goss, Jessica Jacobs 1:00 - 3:00 pm Political Ecology Elif Kendirli Negotiating Globalization: Contestation Over the Proposed Nam Theun II Dam in the Lao PDR Sangmin Nam Ecological Interdependence and Regional Environmental Governance in Northeast Asia Sang-Hun Lee For Re-enchantment of Antiseptic Nature 1:00 - 3:00 pm A Tale of Two Global Cities Bon-Young Koo and Dong-Ho Shin Conflicts between neighboring Cities in Suburban Seoul: the Cases of Anyang, Gunpo and Euwang Swapna Banerjee-Guha Ideology of Urban Restructuring in Mumbai: Serving International Capitalist Agenda Man-Hyung Lee Dichotomizing Search for Korean Social Development: Challenges and Alternatives Lisa Kim Davis Gender and Class in Neighbourhood Organising: the Politics inside Seoul and Spatial Contests 3:30- 5:30 pm People's Geographies II: Social Exclusion, Insertion and Civil Society Kazuaki Sugiyama Don't Sex, Juvie!: The policing of "covert" sex work in urban spaces in Toyama prefecture, Japan Lisa Drummond Sources of Urban Identity: Vietnam's Modernity project Kenji Tsutsumi Modernization, Industrialization and Regional Change in Japan: a case of a coal mining region: panopticonization towards space and society in modern Japan Carlos Tovares Contesting the Land: the Politics of Public Space in San Antonio, Texas 3:30- 5:30 pm Socio-Spatial Changes in S. Korea after the IMF Crisis Myung-Rae Cho Neo-Liberal Urban Changes after the IMF Crisis Jae-Hoon Kim Regional Difference in the Deployment of Korean Economic Crisis in1997 Kyu-Taeg Park Socio-Spatial Interpretation of Unemployment in South Korea after the late 1980s. 3:30- 5:30 pm Critical Poststructuralist Geographies Richard Smith Exploring Post-Marxist Theory: a Reading of Baudrillard Hans W.E. Thorsen Can Bourdieu's Notion of Habitus, Field, and Symbolic Capital be Used in order to Understand the Possibilities for Restructuring in Norwegian Remote Communities? Richard Phillips Politics of Reading: Interventions in Children's Geographies Heath Priston Desire Lines: Urbanity and Corporeal Ethics 6:00- 8:00 pm DINNER 8:00 pm POETRY AND PERFORMANCE (Bud Osborn)

FRIDAY, August 11th, 2000 9:30- 11:30 am People's Geographies: Social Exclusion, Insertion and Civil Society Toshio Mizuuchi Changing urban governance for socially discriminated people Hiroyuki Fukuhara Homeless people and civil society in urban Japan Tohru Nakayama Japanese Korean residents and urban society Steffanie Scott New Geographies of Vulnerability: An analysis of Vietnamese Decollectivization 9:30- 11:30 am Roundtable: Contesting Globalization after Seattle Cindi Katz Globalization and the War on Social Reproduction Maureen Hickey TBA Sarah Wright More World, Less Bank: Movement, Movements and the Movement in Seattle and Washington D.C. Tetsushi Fujita Is Local Co-operation Against Global Competition? 9:30- 11:30 am The Critical Geographies of Taiwan I: the First Step Jinn-yuh Hsu Spatial Fix or Spatial Destruction? Economic Geographies of Post-War Development in Taiwan Chu-joe Hsia Bridging the Critical Perspectives with Practices for Alternative 21st Century Geographies Dan Buck Geography, Class and Miracle: the Construction of Taiwan's Industrial Networks 11:30 - 1:00 pm LUNCH 1:00 - 3:00 pm Writing the Post-Cold War World: New Geopolitical Narratives of Nation, State and Belonging Joe Painter Citizenship, Diversity and Territoriality Luiza Bialasiewicz Europeanising the "Other" Europe Claudio Minca Bellagio and Beyond Patrick Bond TBA 1:00 - 3:30 pm A New Wave of Critical Geography in Non-Anglophone World Kenji Tsutsumi & Fujio Mizuoka An Introduction: The Aims of the Session, situation of Geographies in Our World, and beyond them. Fujio Mizuoka The tale of Diverted Hare and Global Tortoise: The Tortured History of Critical Geography in Japan S. Banerjee-Guha Patterns of Uneven Development in India Byung-Doo Choi Long Experience of Suffering and Short History of Critical-Alternative Geography in S. Korea G. Calderon-Aragon The end of the Revolutionary Social Pact Michael Webber Discussant Blanca Ramirez Discussant 1:00 - 3:00 pm Living Conditions of the Urban Poor in S. Korea In-Ok Hong The Analysis of Conflict Structure in Street Vending Il-Seong Yoon A Study on the Homelessness in S. Korea Seong-Kyu Ha Redevelopment of Substandard Settlements and Evictions in Seoul 3:30- 5:50 pm People's Geographies III: Strategies of Popularization and Solidarity: Teaching Radical Geography Ralph H. Saunders Teaching Geography from the Bottom Up Scott Kirsch Critical Pedagogy and the Post-Cold War University Fujio Mizouka A Project to Develop an Internet-based Geography Teaching Programme Michael Webber 'Using Boundaries to become Global: Globalisation and Difference' (Chapter 2 of the Teaching Programme) Tamami Fukuda Representing Our Region: Cultural Conservation and Local Museum in Japan 3:30- 5:30 pm High-Tech and Regional Development in S. Korea Hyun-Soo Kang, Park Kyung & Lee Chul-Woo Regional Innovation System in Korea- Case Study in Daejon and Changwan Dong-Ho Shin Networks of High-Tech Ventures Firms in Taejon, Korea O-Hyeok Kwon The Limits of Research Park Model as a Type of High-Tech Industry Cluster: the Case of Deaduk Woo-Bae Lee High Tech and Regional development in S. Korea 3:30- 5:30 pm Geographies of Foreign Direct Investment Yong-Sook, Lee The determinants and effects of overseas direct investment: the South Korean Auto Industry Yung-chung Chen Collaborative Foreign Direct Investment: Taiwanese Transnational Corporation Investment in Malaysia 6:00- 8:00 pm DINNER 8:00 pm MOVIES, POLITICS AND KOREA

SATURDAY, August 12th, 2000 9:30- 11:30 am People's Geographies IV: Telling Critical Stories Naoki Oshiro Re-mapping the configuration of regional identity in Ryukyu Island Caroline Desbiens Power from the North: cultural constructions of nature/nation in the James Bay hydroelectric project John Seagroves Abandoning Equality: The Unfulfilled Promise of Freedom in South Africa Richard Phillips Regulation of sexuality in the colonial context 9:30 - 11:30 am Social Polarization in Globalizing Cities Hans Thor Andersen Does Welfare Matter? Ghettoization in the Welfare State John Jorgensen Economic Restructuring, Urban Labour Markets and Social Differentiation Anders Lofgren Patterns of Social Polarization in a Medium-Sized City: Changes in Levels of Living in Trondheim Eric Clark TBA 9:30 - 11:30 am Nature and Environmental Politics I Salim Momtaz Public Participation, Public Awareness: A Critical Analysis of the Public Involvement Process in the Development of the State of the Environment Report in Australia Nicholas Low & Brendan Gleeson Eco-socialization and environmental justice Koji Nakashima Nationalism, colonialism and the representation of nature: "national land" and "forest" in the afforestation campaign in modern Japan 9:30- 11:30 am The Critical Geographies of Taiwan II: the First Step Yi-fong Chen Indigenous Peoples' Land Rights, and the Reconstruction of Place Identity after the September Earthquake-Case Study of Ho-Ping Hsian, Taichung County, Taiwan Li-ling Huang Culture, Reproduction and Sense of Place: An Outline of Articulating Spatial Studies and Cultural Studies in Taiwan Shih-Jung Hsu Sustainable Development and Land Use Planning in Taiwan 11:30 - 1:00 pm LUNCH 1:00- 3:30 pm The Politics of Spatiality Karen Morin Post-colonialism and Native American Geographies: The Letter of Rosalie La Flesche, c. 1896-1899 Anke Struever & Ulrich Best The politics of place: critical of spatial identity and critical spatial identities Noriko Ishiyama Environmental justice and local autonomy: An American Indian tribe's struggle for self-determination in the toxic landscape of the United States Cheryl Gowar Transforming citizenship by transforming scale: contesting civil rights in New York City Geraldine Pratt and Elias Kirby Staging Union Politics: the British Columbia Nurse's Union Theatre Project Caroline Desbiens Discussant 1:00 - 3:00 pm Housing Provision and Real Estate Market in S. Korea Seo-Hwan Lim Public Housing Provision through Speculative Development: the Management by Korean Capitalism of Housing Question and the Industrialization-first Policy Yi-Young Yoon Change of Role Structure among Agents in Private Housing Market since 1990s in Korea Seok-Hoi Yim Trend of Real Estate Market and Government's Policies after the IMF Crisis in Korea Yong-Chang Kim Securitization of Property Financing and Democracy of Possession in Korea 1:00 - 3:00 pm Reconsidering Social Planning and Regional Development Jung-Won Son Bringing the State Back in Regional Analysis Doo-Hwan Kim An Application of a Collaborative Planning as a Social Learning Process: Focusing on Consensus Conference Jong-Ryul Lee The Practice of Urban Renewal in Korea: Mode, Governance and Sustainability 1:00 - 3:00 pm Nature and Environmental Politics II C. Yakubu Oche Sustainable Crop Production in Transkei, South Africa: Prospects and Constraints? Ga-Hyeong Hur Potential of Double Dividend from Environmental Tax Marcella Schmidt What is Nature? Cultural concepts, local representations, construction, deconstruction, political and marketing strategies of humanity's oldest problem 3:30 -5:30 pm People's Geographies and Critical Geographies: An Open Discussion on Strategy, Solidarity, and Action 6:00- 8:00 pm DINNER 8:00 -9:00 pm CLOSING SESSION David Harvey Uneven Geographical Development and Universal Rights

SUNDAY, August 13th, 2000 FIELD TRIPS(Tentative) All courses of field trips will start at 8:00 am on 13 August. We can use two buses, three or four cars, and one van, the carrying capacity is bus: 40-45, car: 4, van 9-10 people. Course 1 Looking around the US camps in Taegu we will visit shortly a building of NGOs' offices, and meet some civil activists, then move to look around the US military camps, and finally visit a municipal office in struggling against them in Taegu. Participants also can visit a community of the urban poor, if they want. A bus will be used for this field trip, but car or van would be used if participants are not so many. This trip will be finished at 2 p.m. at the Tong-Taegu railway station. You can find a brief introduction to the US military camps in Taegu at the web site, http://www.fas.org/irp/facility/taegu.htm This site is maintained by the US agency; unfortunately there is no web site in English set-up by Korean NGOs. Course 2 Visiting an Industrial Complex in Taegu We will visit a building of labor organizations, and meet some activists in labor movement, and then visit an industrial complex and talk with members of labor unions in struggling against foreign capital. Participants also can look around some other industrial complexes in Taegu, if they want. A van or car will be used for this field trip, but a bus would be used if there are many participants. This trip will be finished at 4 p.m. at the Tong-Taegu railway station. You can find a brief introduction to industrial complexes in Taegu metropolitan area at the web site, maintained by the Taegu Chamber of Commerce and Industry. http://tcci.asiansources.com/CITY/INDUSTRY.HTM Course 3 Course 1 plus Course 2 We can combine the course 1 with the course 2. A bus will be used for this course, but a car or van would be used if participants are not so many. Participants of this trip will be back to the accommodation and stay over the night of 13 August. Course 4 Visiting Kyungju City and Pohang steel industrial complex CANCELLED Course 5 Andong traditional village and Confucian culture We will look around the northern part of Kyungbuk Province, especially visiting Andong traditional village, called Ha-hoe-ma-ul, and some other places with Confucian/Buddist culture This course can be included in our plan of field trip, though like the course 3 it is very formal and extravagant. A car or van would be used if participants are not so many. It will take about one hour and half to get Andong from Taegu Univ., Participants of this trip will be back to the accommodation and stay over the night of 13 August. You can find some interesting web sites for Andong, among which is http://city.andong.kyongbuk.kr/frame-e.html http://www.mct.go.kr/festival/s_eng_h_001_m03.html