Shin, Hyun Bang 
ORCID: 0000-0002-1103-9221 and Kim, Soo-Hyun
(2016)
The developmental state, speculative urbanisation and the politics of displacement in gentrifying Seoul.
Urban Studies, 53 (3).
pp. 540-559.
ISSN 0042-0980
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Abstract
What does gentrification mean under speculative urbanisation led by a strong developmental state? This paper analyses the contemporary history of Seoul’s urban redevelopment, arguing that new-build gentrification is an endogenous process embedded in Korea’s highly speculative urban development processes from the 1980s. Property owners, construction firms and local/central governments coalesce, facilitating the extraction of exchange value by closing the rent gap. Displacement of poorer owner-occupiers and tenants was requisite for the success of speculative accumulation. Furthermore, the paper also contends that Korea’s speculative urbanisation under the strong developmental (and later (neo-)liberalising) state has rendered popular resistance to displacement ineffective despite its initial success in securing state concessions. Examining the experience of Seoul in times of condensed industrialisation and speculative urbanisation helps inform the existing literature on gentrification by resorting to non-Western empirics.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://usj.sagepub.com/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2015 Urban Studies Journal Limited |
| Divisions: | Geography & Environment Asia Centre Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD2329 Industrialization J Political Science > JA Political science (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Dec 2014 10:19 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2024 01:03 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/60439 |
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