Carolyn Cartier
is Professor of Human Geography and China Studies at the University of Technology Sydney. She is chief investigator of the Australian Research Council Discovery Project, “Governing the City in China: The Territorial Imperative” (2017–2020). She has been a Fulbright Scholar in Hong Kong and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Globalizing South China (Blackwell, 2001, 2011) and co-editor with Alan A. Lew of Seductions of Place: Geographical Perspectives on Globalization and Touristed Landscapes (Routledge, 2005) and with Laurence J.C. Ma of The Chinese Diaspora: Space, Place, Mobility and Identity (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003).
Christina Kim Chilcote
holds a doctorate from the New School for Social Research in Anthropology. Her Ph.D. thesis is an ethnography of economic activities along the border of China and North Korea. Her recent work titled “Reworking the frame: analysis of current discourses on North Korea and a case study of North Korean labor in Dandong, China” is published in Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 56(3) (2015). She was a Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar at the United States Institute of Peace from 2015–2016. Her current work focuses on international security and defense regimes.
Young-Jin Choi
received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Geography Education at Seoul National University. Her dissertation Geopolitical Economies and South Korea’s Heavy industrialization in the late 1960s and early 1970s: case studies on “Hyundai Heavy Industries” and “Changwon machine-building industrial Complex” examined the economic growth of South Korea in the 1970’s from a geopolitical economy perspective as an alternative approach to the developmental state thesis. She coauthored the paper, “The chaebol and the US military–industrial complex: Cold War geopolitical economy and South Korean industrialization”, Environment and Planning A, 46(5) (2014), with Jim Glassman, which won the Environmental and Planning A’s 2014 Ashby Prize. Her current research interests combine the formation of industrial complexes and transnational business networks in East Asia during the Cold War period.
is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Manchester, where he coordinates the Cities, Politics, Economies Research Group and serves on the leadership team of the Manchester Urban Institute. His research interests include the study of East Asian developmentalism and democratization, labor geography, and the financial transformation of Korea’s political economy since the late 1990s. His research has been published in journals such as Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Political Geography, Geoforum, Capital and Class, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Journal of Asian Studies, Critical Sociology and Critical Asian Studies, among others. He research on Korean politics was recently recognized with the Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 2017 and a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship for 2018-2019.
Eli Friedman
is Associate Professor of International and Comparative Labor at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He currently has two major research projects, the first of which looks at expansive worker unrest in China and state responses. The second project is a study of China’s urbanization, with a particular focus on access to education for rural to urban migrants. He is the author of Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China (Cornell, 2014), as well as numerous articles on China’s labor and development.
Jim Glassman
is Professor in the Department of Geography at University of British Columbia. His areas of research interest include the geopolitical economy of development, state theory, and military economies, with a particular focus on South Korea, Thailand, and the United States. He is the author of Thailand at the Margins (Oxford University Press, 2004), Bounding the Mekong (University of Hawaii Press, 2010), and Drums of War, Drums of Development (Brill, 2018).
Heidi Gottfried
is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Wayne State University. Her research focuses on gender, precarity and work. Publications include The Reproductive Bargain: Deciphering the Enigma of Japanese Capitalism (Brill, 2015); and Gender, Work and Economy: Unpacking the Global Economy (Wiley, 2013). She also has edited or co-edited several books: Gendering the Knowledge Economy: Comparative Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007); Equity in the Workplace: Gendering Workplace Policy Analysis (Lexington Books, 2004); Feminism and Social Change: Bridging Theory and Practice (University of Illinois Press, 1996); The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment (Sage, 2015);
Laam Hae
is Associate Professor at York University. She studies and teaches on urban political economy and cultural politics, feminist urban theory and transformative urban activism. Hae has researched and written on popular struggles over gentrification, the post-industrialization of urban economies, the militarization of urban space, and the privatization of social reproduction, both in the U.S. and South Korean contexts. She is also an author of The Gentrification of Nightlife and the Right to the City: Regulating Spaces of Social Dancing in New York (Routledge, 2012).
Jinn-yuh Hsu
is a professor of Human Geography at the National Taiwan University. His research interests mainly include the inconstant geographies of capitalism in East Asian (post)developmental states, particularly the geopolitical economic impacts of state transformation. Currently, he is engaging in a book project to explore the historical transformation of special zones, including Export Processing Zones, Technology Parks and Free Economic Zones, and their geopolitical and geoeconomic implications for state transformation in Taiwan, in comparison with the case of South Korea.
Iam-chong Ip
is Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University, where he teaches courses in Hong Kong society, cultural changes of Modern China, and social and cultural anthropology. His research interests include social activism, urban politics, independent media and modern Chinese intellectual formation. His publications have appeared in such journals as Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Critical Sociology, Cultural Dynamics and Asian Survey.
Jin-bum Jang
is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at Seoul National University. His research interests include citizenship, cities, poverty and labor. He is currently translating Herman R. van Gunsteren’s A Theory of Citizenship: Organizing Plurality in Contemporary Democracies and Etienne Balibar’s Citizenship into Korean (Greenbee Publishing Company, forthcoming).
Soo-Hyun Kim
is currently a Senior Secretary for social policy to President Moon Jae-in of the Republic of Korea, a position that involves managing social affairs that include
Jana M. Kleibert
is post-doctoral fellow at the Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS) in Erkner and lecturer at the Humboldt University of Berlin. She is an economic geographer with research interests in globalization, global production networks, economic development and urban transformations in the global South. She holds a Ph.D. in Human Geography from the University of Amsterdam. Her research has been published in international peer-reviewed journals, including Urban Geography, Environment and Planning A, Geoforum, and Regional Studies.
Kah-Wee Lee
is Deputy Director of the Master of Urban Planning program at the National University of Singapore where he teaches history and theory of planning and qualitative methods. He works on the politics of urban development and planning practice in Singapore and other parts of Asia, as well as the spatial violence of colonial and nationalist projects. His current project examines the expansion of the casino industry in Asia through three cities - Singapore, Macau and Manila. Lee’s research has been published in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Environment and Planning A and C, Geoforum, and local professional journals. He is the author of Las Vegas in Singapore: Violence, Progress and the Crisis of Nationalist Modernity (The University of Chicago Press, 2018).
Seung-Ook Lee
is an assistant professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. His research focuses on the geopolitics and political economy of Northeast Asia, specifically China and the Korean peninsula. His works are published in journals such as Critical Asian Studies, Environment and Planning A, Geopolitics, and Political Geography.
Christina Moon
is an Assistant Professor in Fashion Studies in the School of Art and Design History, Parsons School of Design, The New School. Her research looks at the
Bae-Gyoon Park
is a Professor of Geography in the College of Education at Seoul National University in Korea. His recent research focuses on geo-political economies of East Asian border regions and (post) developmental urbanism in East Asia. He is an editor of Locating Neoliberalism in East Asia (Blackwell, 2012) and several Korean-written books. He has also published papers in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Critical Sociology, Political Geography, Economic Geography and Critical Asian Studies.
Hyun Bang Shin
is Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research focuses on the critical analysis of the political economic dynamics of speculative urbanization, the politics of displacement, gentrification, mega-events, and the right to the city, with particular attention to Asian cities. He is co-editor of Global Gentrifications: Uneven Development and Displacement (Policy Press, 2015), co-author of Planetary Gentrification (Polity Press, 2016), and editor of Anti Gentrification: What is to be done? (Dongnyok, 2017). He is currently writing a monograph Making China Urban (Routledge, forthcoming), and co-editing Contesting Urban Space in East Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming) and The Political Economy of Mega Projects in Asia: Globalization and Urban Transformation (Routledge, forthcoming).