Hello,
The BK21 Education and Research Group of the Department of Anthropology is pleased to host a guest lecture by Professor Valérie Gelézeau from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France. In this lecture, Professor Gelézeau will discuss “Post- and Meta-Urban Korea.” She will share her 30 years of exploration into the 'Korean space' as a socially constructed, people-centered concept, viewed through the lens of cultural geography as "situated knowledge" based on fieldwork. We look forward to your participation.
Date 2025.1.16. (Thursday) 13:30–15:00
Venue Room 504, Wooseok Economics Hall (Building 223), Seoul National University
Inquiries anthrobk21plus@snu.ac.kr
✱No prior registration is required for this lecture.
From Apateu to Post-urban Korea: towards a Sensible Approach of Fieldwork
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In this lecture, I question my current research project on “post- and meta-urban Korea” in its framework and methods. To do so, I share three decades of questioning Korean space, understood as a social construct and with people at its centre, with the perspective of cultural geography as “situated knowledge” grounded on fieldwork. How does post-urban Korea articulate with the rise of apartments, the Korean border zone, or North Korean cities? What conception of fieldwork did all those research experience build in my scientific journey? And how can I now develop methods that will contribute developing a cultural geography adapted to the “new normal” of our societies?
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Professor, EHESS (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, France)
Director of The Centre for Studies on China, Korea and Japan (CNRS-EHESS-Université de Paris)
As a geographer specializing in Korea, Dr. Gelézeau questions Korean society in its relationship to space, based on qualitative field research and materials in the Korean language. She recently directed the ANR CITY-NKOR program: “City, Architecture and Urban Development in North Korea” (2018-2023: https://citynkor.hypotheses.