Locating Neoliberalism in East Asia

Neoliberalizing Spaces in Developmental States
Herausgeber: Park, Bae-Gyoon; Saito, Asato; Child Hill, Richard

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Produktbeschreibung

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. Exploring the evolving relationship between the two political economies, contributors from Asia and other international experts look at the ways neo-liberal ideology has materialized in Asian urban and regional settings and examine how neo-liberal axioms have been used to justify urban and regional projects. Readings reveal how neoliberalism in many East Asian regions is actually the outcome of highly sophisticated and conflictual interactions between the institutional legacies of state-led developmentalism and neoliberal discourses and practices. In essence, this collection of essays offers illuminating insights on the global effects of neo-liberalism while shaping our understanding of contemporary political-economic transformations in Asia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Stax Textbooks
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781405192798
• ISBN-10: 1405192798
• Artikelnr.: 33929667

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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'sNew Directions in Regional Policy 27
Kuniko Fujita and Richard Child Hill

3 State-Space Relations in Transition: Urban and Regional Policyin Japan 59
Asato Saito

4 Developmental Neoliberalism and Hybridity of the Urban Policyof South Korea 86
Byung-Doo Choi

5 Spatially Selective Liberalization in South Korea andMalaysia: Neoliberalization in Asian Developmental States 114
Bae-Gyoon Park and Josh Lepawsky

6 Clusters as a Policy Panacea? Critical Reflections on theCluster Policies of South Korea 148
Yong-Sook Lee

7 Moving toward Neoliberalization? The Restructuring of theDevelopmental State and Spatial Planning in Taiwan 167
Chia-Huang Wang

8 Neoliberalism, the Developmental State, and Housing Policy inTaiwan 196
Yi-Ling Chen and William Derhsing Li

9 Reforming Health: Contrasting Trajectories of NeoliberalRestructuring in the City-States 225
Stephen W.K. Chiu, K.C. Ho, and Tai-lok Lui

10 "Detroit of the East": A Multiscalar Case Studyof 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 importantquestion about the recent fate of the developmental state andprovided some thorough case studies, and perhaps it will inspireother scholars to take up this question." (AmericanJournal of Sociology, 1 September 2013)

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

"The editors' choice of locating neoliberalism at the urban andregional scales of analysis provides an extremely welcome andrefreshing correction to the dominant and now dated view ofstate-driven national development in East Asia. Written by leadingexperts in urban and regional developments, I am sure this bookwill have an enduring influence on the social scientificunderstanding of economic and social change in East Asia."
--Henry Yeung, National University of Singapore

"A strong collection of essays that will make a valuablecontribution to literature on East Asian development, state theory,and geographies of uneven development. The geographicalperspectives that the authors provide clarify the ways in whichneoliberalization, as promoted by developmental states, has beenhighly uneven and incomplete in socio-spatial terms."
--Jim Glassman, University of British Columbia