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Urban Movements and the Genealogy of Urban Rights Discourses: The Case of Urban Protesters against Redevelopment and Displacement in Seoul, South Korea

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  • Hyun Bang Shin

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Despite significant contributions made to progressive urban politics, contemporary debates on cities and social justice are in need of adequately capturing the local historical and sociopolitical processes of how people have come to perceive the concept of rights in their struggles against the hegemonic establishments. These limitations act as constraints on overcoming hegemony imposed by the ruling class on subordinate classes and restrict a contextual understanding of such concepts as the right to the city in non-Western contexts, undermining the potential to produce locally tuned alternative strategies to build progressive and just cities. In this regard, this article discusses the evolving nature of urban rights discourses that were produced by urban protesters fighting redevelopment and displacement, paying particular attention to the experiences in Seoul that epitomized speculative urban accumulation under the (neoliberalizing) developmental state. Method-wise, the article makes use of archival records (protesters' pamphlets and newsletters), photographs, and field research archives. The data are supplemented by the author's in-depth interviews with former and current housing activists. The article argues that the urban poor have the capacity to challenge the state repression and hegemony of the ruling class ideology; that the urban movements such as the evictees' struggles against redevelopment are to be placed in the broader contexts of social movements; that concepts such as the right to the city are to be understood against the rich history of place-specific evolution of urban rights discourses; and that cross-class alliance is key to sustaining urban movements.

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  • Hyun Bang Shin, 2018. "Urban Movements and the Genealogy of Urban Rights Discourses: The Case of Urban Protesters against Redevelopment and Displacement in Seoul, South Korea," Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 108(2), pages 356-369, March.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:raagxx:v:108:y:2018:i:2:p:356-369
    DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2017.1392844
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    1. Kim, Kon & Križnik, Blaž & Kamvasinou, Krystallia, 2021. "Between the state and citizens: Changing governance of intermediary organisations for inclusive and sustainable urban regeneration in Seoul," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 105(C).
    2. Jinlong Gao & Zhixuan Wu & Jianglong Chen & Wen Chen, 2020. "Beyond the bid‐rent: Two tales of land use transition in contemporary China," Growth and Change, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 51(3), pages 1336-1356, September.
    3. Nogueira, Mara & Shin, Hyun Bang, 2020. "The right to the city centre: political struggles of street vendors in Belo Horizonte, Brazil," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 105867, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    4. Maria Daskalaki & Marianna Fotaki, 2024. "Resisting extractivism as a feminist critical socio‐spatial practice," Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 31(3), pages 983-1011, May.

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