Carolyn Cartier is Professor of Human Geography and China Studies, University of Technology Sydney, working on restructuring of the urban administrative divisions in China and topics in the politics of urban culture and consumerism in China and Hong Kong. She is the chief investigator of ‘Governing the City in China: The Territorial Imperative’, funded by the Australian Research Council. She is the editor of a recent ‘Interventions’ debate in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 41(2017), ‘Displacement, Resettlement, and Redevelopment in Hong Kong and Beyond: A Post-Gentrification Horizon’. She is a regular contributor to the China Story Yearbook, a project of the Centre for China in the World at the Australian National University where she is the adjunct research director of the Space and Place research theme.
Young-Jin Choi is a high school Geography teacher whose interests include the formation of transnational state-business network and urban development in South Korea. She finished her PhD in Geography Education at Seoul National University. Her dissertation, ‘Geopolitical Economies and South Korea’s Heavy industrialization in the late 1960s and early 1970s: case studies on “Hyundai Heavy Industries” and “Changwon machine-building industrial Complex”’, studies the economic growth of South Korea in the 1970s from a geopolitical economy perspective as an alternative approach to the developmental state thesis. She coauthored the paper, ‘The chaebol and the US military–industrial complex: Cold War geopolitical economy and South Korean industrialization’, Environment and Planning A 46(5), with Jim Glassman, which won the Environmental and Planning A’s 2014 Ashby Prize.
Jamie Doucette teaches human geography at the University of Manchester. His research interests include labour geography, Korean social movements, East Asian political economy and the afterlives of the developmental state model.
Eli Friedman is Associate Professor of International and Comparative Labor at Cornell University’s ILR School. He is the author of Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China.
Jim Glassman is Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Thailand at the Margins: Internationalization of the State and the Transformation of Labor (Oxford University Press, 2004), Bounding the Mekong: the Asian Development Bank, China, and Thailand (University of Hawaii Press, 2010), and Drums of War, Drums of Development: The Formation of a Pacific Ruling Class and Industrialization in East and Southeast Asia, 1945-1980 (forthcoming in the Brill Historical Materialism series).
Heidi Gottfried, Associate Professor of Sociology at Wayne State University, and Research Ambassador, German Research Council (DAAD). Her research focuses on gender, precarity, and work. Publications include The Reproductive Bargain: Deciphering the Enigma of Japanese Capitalism (2015) and Gender, Work and Economy: Unpacking the Global Economy (2013). She also has edited or co-edited several books: Gendering the Knowledge Economy: Comparative Perspectives (2007); Equity in the Workplace: Gendering Workplace Policy Analysis (2004); Feminism and Social Change: Bridging Theory and Practice (1996); The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment (2015); and Care Work in Transition: Transnational Circuits of Gender, Migration and Care (in process).
Laam Hae is an associate professor of Political Science at York University, Canada, teaching and researching about urban politics in North America and East Asia. Her publications include a book and several journal articles that examine how gentrification and neoliberal urbanization in New York City transformed subcultural spaces and politics, and undermined a range of rights that urban inhabitants are normatively entitled to. Recently, she has studied and written about the local specificity of neoliberal urbanization in South Korea, and gender-based social movements that have recently emerged in various communities there. She possesses both an MA and PhD in geography.
Jinn-yuh Hsu teaches in the Department of Geography, National Taiwan University. One of his key researches concentrated on the development of the Hsinchu region, a widely claimed successful ‘technopolis’ in the latecomer industrialization model. Recently, he has been working to explore the dynamics and contradictions behind the special zones, such as the technopolis and megaprojects, which prevailed across the East Asian developmental states such as Korea, Taiwan, and China.
Iam-chong Ip is Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. His teaching and research interests range from social movement in Chinese societies, cyber-politics, neoliberalism, urban studies to post-colonialism. He conducted ethnographic research in Chinese cities and villages. He is currently working on a research project related to youth activism and the internet in Hong Kong.
Christina (Kim) Chilcote holds a doctorate from the New School for Social Research in Anthropology. Her PhD thesis is an ethnography of economic activities along the border of China and North Korea. Her recent work (2015) titled “Reworking the frame: analysis of current discourses on North Korea and a case study of North Korean labour in Dandong, China” is published in Asia Pacific Viewpoint. She was a Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar at the United States Institute of Peace from 2015-2016. Her current work focuses on international security and defense regimes.
Jana M. Kleibert is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS) in Erkner, Germany and is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. She is an economic geographer with research interests in globalisation, global production networks, economic development and urban transformations in the global South. Her research has been published in international peer-reviewed journals, including Urban Geography, Environment and Planning A, Geoforum and Regional Studies. She received her PhD in human geography and holds a Master’s degree in political science (international relations) from the Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research at the University of Amsterdam.
Christina H. Moon is an assistant professor in Fashion Studies in the School of Art and Design History, Parsons The New School for Design. Her research looks at the social ties and cultural encounters between design worlds and manufacturing landscapes across Asia and the Americas, exploring the memory, migration, and labor of cultural workers. Her most recent project is on the fast-fashion industry within the USA. In general, she writes on fashion, design and labor, material culture, social memory, the ephemeral and everyday, and ways of knowing and representing in ethnographic practice. She is a GIDEST fellow and member of the India China Institute at The New School, and member of the Fashion Praxis working group at Parsons. She is published in Vestoj, the Baffler, Design Issues, and Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty with a number of chapters published in various edited volumes.
Bae-Gyoon Park teaches human geography at Seoul National University and has written widely on urban development, neoliberalism and developmentalism in Korea and East Asia. His research interests include East Asian Cities, post-territorial urbanism, urban commons, and territorial restructuring.
