• Date: October 16th, Wednesday, 2019 14:00-17:00
• Location: Room 304, SNUAC (Bldg. 101)

Speaker: Jung Won Sonn (Professor, Bartlett School of Planning, University College London)

On October 16th, Center for Asian Urban Societies held a seminar on ‘David Harvey’s Concept of “Accumulation by Dispossession”: Its Political Utility and Theoretical Problem’ as the first session of Reading Urban Theory Critically Season 2.

This seminar consisted of a lecture by Professor Jung Won Sonn (Bartlett School of Planning, University College London) and discussion by the participants. Professor Sonn examined the literature in which David Harvey’s concept of ‘accumulation by dispossession’ to discuss its theoretical similarity with and difference from Marx’s primitive accumulation. He also introduced many studies that examined the utility and limits of the concept itself, and discussed the theoretical, analytical implications of rebuilding the theory of the state through the concept of accumulation by dispossession.