• Date: November 22nd, Friday, 2019 14:00-17:00
• Location: Room 304, SNUAC (Bldg. 101)

Speaker: Eunyoung Choi  (Researcher, Institute of Globalization and Multicultural Studies, Hanyang University)

On November 22nd, the fifth lecture of ‘Reading Urban Theory Critically 2’ was given by Dr. Eunyoung Choi (Researcher, Hanyang University). Dr. Choi spoke about ‘The Life and Migration of North Korean Defector Women in China”, sharing her experience of field research in Yanbian and explaining about the various methodologies needed in researching direct issues of survival. Moreover, she explained how the politics of diverse identities on borders can be represented and disturbed for the territoriality of a nation-state through the geography of survival. She further explained the need to view field research in geography, sociology, and anthropology from a dimension of multi-scales, and the ethical, methodological approaches needed for ‘field research in risky regions’ such as researcher’s relationship to subject and safety.