Locating Neoliberalism in East Asia (eBook)

Neoliberalizing Spaces in Developmental States

Bae-Gyoon Park, Richard Child Hill, Asato Saito (Herausgeber)

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2012
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
9781444346626 (ISBN)

Infos

Locating Neoliberalism in East Asia: Neoliberalizing Spaces in Developmental States examines the influence of neo-liberal ideologies on urban and regional policies and practices in several Asian Pacific nations.

• Represents one of the few studies of neoliberal changes in East Asia, one of the most important topics in social science research over the past two decades
• Considers the Asian perspective by focusing on readings from Asian experts
• Pays special attention to the 'spatial' dimension of the East Asian neoliberalization
• Examines the influence of neo-liberal ideologies on urban and regional policies and practices in several Asian Pacific nations
• Explores the evolving relationship between the two political economies

 

Bae-Gyoon Park is an Associate Professor of Geography the College of Education at Seoul National University in Korea. Park has recently published papers in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Political Geography, Economic Geography and Critical Asian Studies.

Richard Child Hill is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Michigan State University. Hill's published writings include Japanese Cities in the World Economy ( 1993), Nested Cities: The State and Urban Development in East Asia (2003), and Innovative Tokyo (2005), all co-authored with Kuniko Fujita.

Asato Saito is Visiting Lecturer in the Faculty of Social Policy and Administration at Hosei University. He is currently involved in studies comparing the governance arrangement at metropolitan and regional scale in four world cities: London, New York, Paris and Tokyo; and one investigating New Regionalism and Smart Growth in US cities.

Inhalt

List of Contributors vii



Series Editors' Preface x

1 Introduction: Locating Neoliberalism in East Asia 1

Richard Child Hill, Bae-Gyoon Park, and Asato Saito

2 Industry Clusters and Transnational Networks: Japan's
New Directions in Regional Policy 27

Kuniko Fujita and Richard Child Hill

3 State-Space Relations in Transition: Urban and Regional Policy
in Japan 59

Asato Saito

4 Developmental Neoliberalism and Hybridity of the Urban Policy
of South Korea 86

Byung-Doo Choi

5 Spatially Selective Liberalization in South Korea and
Malaysia: Neoliberalization in Asian Developmental States 114

Bae-Gyoon Park and Josh Lepawsky

6 Clusters as a Policy Panacea? Critical Reflections on the
Cluster Policies of South Korea 148

Yong-Sook Lee

7 Moving toward Neoliberalization? The Restructuring of the
Developmental State and Spatial Planning in Taiwan 167

Chia-Huang Wang

8 Neoliberalism, the Developmental State, and Housing Policy in
Taiwan 196

Yi-Ling Chen and William Derhsing Li

9 Reforming Health: Contrasting Trajectories of Neoliberal
Restructuring in the City-States 225

Stephen W.K. Chiu, K.C. Ho, and Tai-lok Lui

10 "Detroit of the East": A Multiscalar Case Study
of Regional Development Policy in Thailand 257

Richard Child Hill and Kuniko Fujita

11 Concluding Remarks 294

Bae-Gyoon Park and Asato Saito

Index 303

Rezensionen

"However, this book has put on the agenda an important
question about the recent fate of the developmental state and
provided some thorough case studies, and perhaps it will inspire
other scholars to take up this question." (American
Journal of Sociology, 1 September 2013)

"It will surely find its way onto the reading lists of
Master's level courses both in social science and East Asian
studies departments, as well as forming invaluable reading for
researchers and commentators more broadly."
(International Journal of Housing Policy, 20 June 2013)



"The editors' choice of locating neoliberalism at the urban and
regional scales of analysis provides an extremely welcome and
refreshing correction to the dominant and now dated view of
state-driven national development in East Asia. Written by leading
experts in urban and regional developments, I am sure this book
will have an enduring influence on the social scientific
understanding of economic and social change in East Asia."

--Henry Yeung, National University of Singapore

"A strong collection of essays that will make a valuable
contribution to literature on East Asian development, state theory,
and geographies of uneven development. The geographical
perspectives that the authors provide clarify the ways in which
neoliberalization, as promoted by developmental states, has been
highly uneven and incomplete in socio-spatial terms."

--Jim Glassman, University of British Columbia

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.1.2012
• Reihe/Serie: IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Urban and Social Change
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Geographie • Geography • Sociology • Soziologie • Stadtgeographie • Stadtsoziologie • Urban Geography • Urban sociology • Urban Studies, Regional Studies, Political economies, Asian experts, Asian Pacific Nations, Neoliberal, Developmentalism
• ISBN-13: 9781444346626 / 9781444346626