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Airport modern : The space between international departures and arrivals in modern Korean national imaginings
- Airport modern
- Kim, Alice S.
- University of California, Berkeley
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Airport modern
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| Sub Title | The space between international departures and arrivals in modern Korean national imaginings |
| Material Type | Theses |
| Author(English) |
Kim, Alice S. |
| Publisher |
[Berkeley, U.S.] : University of California, Berkeley |
| Date | 2013 |
| Pages | 438 |
| Subject Country | South Korea(Asia and Pacific) |
| Language | English |
| File Type | Link |
| Subject | Territorial Development < Transport/Logistics |
| Holding | University of California, Berkeley |
| License |  |
Abstract
Challenging the Eurocentric discourse of Modernization, Modernity and Modernism and the reified notions of space that underpin them and which linger in contemporary theories of globalization, this dissertation argues that the examination of the historical, social and political economic processes and experiences of modernization and modernity at the intersection of particular national sites and the uneven geography of the global capitalist system is fundamental to grappling with how we can begin to talk about globalization in South Korea or East Asia and its corresponding social and cultural changes. In an attempt to read what is new about South Korea's Incheon International airport (2001) and the symbolism of the new `global' aesthetic that prominently shapes the sensational form of this strategic social space, (The rest omitted)
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