Mobility Humanities and Urban Travel This think piece approaches the issue of urban travel from a mobility humanities perspective, taking the example of Seoul, South Korea, one of the leading metropolises in Asia. Through the lens of Seoul, we
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Exploring Humanistic Layers of Urban Travel
Representation, Imagination, and Speculation
Jooyoung Kim, Taehee Kim, Jinhyoung Lee, and Inseop Shin
Chong-ro
A Space of Belonging for Young Gay Men in Seoul
Elias Alexander
of Seoul's gay districts) acts as a critical vehicle through which young gay men navigate a sense of self and belonging vis-à-vis sociocultural structures. In emphasizing young gay men's interaction with the Chong-ro area, this article illustrates the
Itaewon's suspense
Masculinities, place‐making and the US Armed Forces in a Seoul entertainment district
Elisabeth Schober
The US military presence in Korea has had unintended consequences in an entertainment district in Seoul, where competing performances of masculinity function as a key place‐making strategy. Itaewon's suspense – the uneasy positioning of the neighbourhood between allure and repulsion – arises out of a suspension of the area between contesting sovereignties, and at times allows fraternal bonding between an unlikely cast of actors. With Itaewon's multifarious identities increasingly becoming commodified, the democratic liberalisations (which have partly emerged from and partly acted upon the place of Itaewon) have ironically also opened the gates for rampant economic liberalisation.
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Feb 2014
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 36–51 (15 total)
(Dis-)Embedding Museums
On the Creation of New Urban Museumscapes in Hong Kong and Seoul
Birgit Mersmann
Driven by global economic and cultural competition, Asian megacities seek future-oriented local and global self-representation using cutting-edge museums of contemporary art. This article analyzes the embedding of two vanguard museum projects, the “Museum+” in Hong Kong, China, and the new Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, South Korea, into long-term urban planning strategies and concepts. In order to understand the intended purpose and process of how the new museums of contemporary art are devised as public spaces of cultural selfrepresentation and urban identity building, the study monitors the complete design process from the city government’s urban and institutional planning strategies over architectural design to the museum’s mission statement and collection strategy. By comparatively tracing the museum projects in Hong Kong and Seoul, the evidence shows that, although they share a common global cities agenda, their pathways of urban place-making and community-building vary greatly. These variations depend on the historical role and current geopolitical repositioning of each city.
Exhibit Reviews
Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp, Ciraj Rassool, Bruce Levy, Vera Mey, Jeanette Atkinson, Elizabeth Rankin, Ying Ying Lai, Linda Young, Christian Mesia Montenegro, and Conal McCarthy
Fetish Modernity (Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm)
Remaking an Ethnographic Museum in Cologne (The New Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum—Cultures of the World)
The George W. Bush Presidential Center (Dallas, Texas)
Moving on Asia: Towards a New Art Network 2004–2013 (Gallery LOOP, Seoul, and City Gallery Wellington)
L'Art Nouveau: La Révolution Décorative and Tamara de Lempicka (La Reine de l'Art Déco, Pinacothèque de Paris)
Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst, Glyptothek, and Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Tangible Splendor: The Chi Chang Yuan Collection of Lacquer with Mother-of-Pearl Inlay (National Museum of History, Taipei)
First Peoples (Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Melbourne Museum Linda Young)
The National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and History, and the National Museum of Peruvian Culture, Lima
David Bowie Is (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, and Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin)
Editorial
Stéphanie Ponsavady
identity. The Ideas in Motion section features a think piece entitled “Exploring Humanistic Layers of Urban Travel: Representation, Imagination, and Speculation,” which explores different modes of interpretation of urban mobility in the context of Seoul
Editorial
Sandra H. Dudley and Conal McCarthy
postdigital museum—through museums in cultural and urban development, new urban museumscapes in Seoul and Hong Kong, museums in Dubai, Biennales, museums and mental health, and museums online, to exhibitions as research, encounters in Melbourne’s Immigration
Relocating exploitation
Tenant shopkeepers, rental relationships, and the speculative commodification of urban space in South Korea
Yewon Andrea Lee
When I described my fieldwork with tenant shopkeepers who are collectively organizing to defend their livelihoods to a Korean academic and long-time mentor, she mentioned how her Japanese friends complain that travel guidebooks for Seoul become
Ninagawa's Ancient Journeys
Daniel Gallimore
indeed’ (1.1.14). Although the production was generally well received in Seoul, 24 it was not a Japanised production in the style of Ninagawa's landmark samurai Macbeth of the 1980s, and the paradigm of intercultural exchange intended by Aran
In Critical Survey
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 113–123 (11 total)
Imagined Germany and the Battle of Models in South Korea
Rival Narratives of Germany in South Korean Public Spheres, 1990–2015
Jin-Wook Shin and Boyeong Jeong
reunification Joongang Ilbo Editorial 1990-07-02 3 The birth of a new Germany Seoul Shinmun Editorial 1990-10-03 4 Historical reunification of the divided Germany Kukmin Ilbo Editorial 1990-10-04 5 Lessons from the
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 113–134 (22 total)