• Date: February 13th, Thursday, 2020 14:00-18:00
• Location: Room 303, SNUAC (Bldg. 101)

Organizer
Dr. Jin-Tae Hwang (Center for Asian Urban Societies, SNU)

Presenters
Dr. Ling-I Chu (Postdoctoral researcher, National Taiwan University)
Driving over troubled water: The re-bordering, re-categorizing, and re-territorialization of China-Taiwan relations
Brian Scanlon (PhD student, National Taiwan University)
The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge: The Geopolitical Economy of Infrastructure in the Pearl River Delta, China

Discussants
Jihyuk Park (Center for Asian Urban Societies, SNU)
Yeryun Hong (Center for Asian Urban Societies, SNU)
Prof. Bae-Gyoon Park (Director, Center for Asian Urban Societies, SNU)

On February 14th, Center for Asian Urban Societies held a colloquium to examine the possibility of reinterpreting the East Asian context in the planetary urbanization theory starting with Lefebvre and leading on to Neil Brenner and Schmid.

Dr. Chu, a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Geography at National Taiwan University and Brian Scanlon, a Ph.D. student in the same department, presented their researches on the construction of mega-infrastructures in Taiwan and China, and the changes in the urban landscape and social contexts that resulted. In the discussion, Prof. Bae-Gyoon Park noted the implications and limits of planetary urbanization theory and Lefevbre’s theory, suggesting a possibility for a new approach to urban sociology. He also discussed a wariness and importance for the emphasis on the national scale in the East Asian context, as well as a need for an urban-social approach in order to include global and regional scales.