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Jintae Hwang: Curriculum Vitae

 

 


 

EDUCATION

 

 

Ph.D.  2014-present, University of BonnDepartment of Geography, Bonn, Germany, Advisor: Detlef Müller-Mahn

 

 

Ph.D.    2012-2014 (course work), University of Bayreuth, Department of Geography, Bayreuth, Germany, Advisor: Detlef Müller-Mahn

 

Ph.D.    2010-2011(completed course work), Seoul National University, Department of Geography Education, Seoul, South Korea, Advisor: Bae-Gyoon Park

 

M.A.    2008-2010, Seoul National University, Department of Geography Education, Seoul, South Korea (Thesis: “The Impacts of the Local Growth Coalition and Politics of Scale on Formative Process of Seoul as a Global City: The Case of Dongdaemun Design Plaza & Park”), Advisor: Bae-Gyoon Park

 

B.A.     2002-2007, Dongguk University, Department of Geography Education, Seoul, South Korea (2004-2006: At military service)

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

 

Political Ecology; Development study; State theory; Politics of local economic development; Cultural political economy; Labour geography; Social movement.          

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

BOOK  

 

Hyunsoo Kang and Jin-Tae Hwang (eds.), 2012, The Right and the City, Seoul: Raum (in Korean). 

 

PEER-REVIEWED INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ARTICLE

 

Jin-Tae Hwang, 2014, Territorialized urban mega-projects beyond global convergence: The case of Dongdaemun Design Plaza & Park Project, Seoul, Cities, 40, 82-89.

 

PEER-REVIEWED KOREAN JOURNAL ARTICLES

 

Jin-Tae Hwang and Bae-Gyoon Park, 2014, A Study on the Multi-scalar Processes of Gumi Industrial Complex Development, 1969-1973Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea, 17(1), 1-27 (in Korean).

Jin-Tae Hwang and Bae-Gyoon Park, 2013, Seeing the state-nature relation in South Korea from the perspective of political ecology, Journal of the Korean Geographical Society, 48(3), 348-365 (in Korean).

 

Jin-Tae Hwang and Bae-Gyoon Park, 2012, The Role of the State in Global City Formation: A Case Study on Singapore’s Global City Strategies, Seoul Studies, 13(4), 73-95 (in Korean).

 

Jin-Tae Hwang, 2012, Making Alternative Economic Spaces under the Capitalism: An Experience with Workers-Run Companies in Argentina, Space & Environment, 22(2), 78-113 (in Korean).

 

Jin-Tae Hwang, 2011, Deconstructing the Essentialist vs. Anti-Essentialist Dichotomy on the Placeness: A Comparative Study of Harvey and Massey on the Placeness, Journal of Geography Education, 55, 55-66 (in Korean).

 

Jin-Tae Hwang, 2011, Is labor internationalism a panacea? A case study of GM-Daewoo irregular workers’ union in the local community unionism, Journal of Locality Studies, 6, 131-172 (in Korean).

 

Jin-Tae Hwang, 2011, Analysis on the Spatiality of the 2008 Candlelight Protests in South Korea, Economy & Society, 90, 262-289 (in Korean).

 

Jin-Tae Hwang, 2011, Analysis of Politics of Agora in the Right to the City, Space & Environment, 21(1), 42-70(in Korean).

 

Jin-Tae Hwang, 2010, Realizing the ‘Right to the City’ within the Neo-liberal city: The case of the Haechiman Project, Space & Environment, 20(2), 33-59(in Korean).

 

BOOK REVIEWS

 

Jin-Tae Hwang, 2012, “Ecologism, Sang-Hun Lee”, Space& Environment, 22(1), 168-175(in Korean).

 

Jin-Tae Hwang, 2009, “State Power: A Strategic-Relational Approach, Bob Jessop”, Space & Environment, 20(1), 238-245(in Korean).

 

NEWSPAPER CONTRIBUTION

 

Jin-Tae Hwang, 2013, “Som koreaner skammer jeg mig over GGGI”, Information, 15 November(in Danish). http://www.information.dk/478591

 

TRANSLATION

 

Jin-Tae Hwang, 2014, Perspektiven der geographischen Risikoforschung (written by Detlef Müller-Mahn, originally published in Geographische Rundschau)”, Space & Environment, 24(2), 284-299 (in Korean).

 

RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS (with the exception of presentations in Korean)

 

2014, “The Authoritarian Regime’s Hydro-Spatial Fix in South Korea, 1980­–1987”, International Mini-workshop on "Contesting Political Ecologies of South Korea" (hosted by SSK Research Team on "State and Localities" in Seoul National University), Seoul.   

 

2013, “Korea´s Green Growth Strategy: National state territoriality and the ‘jumping of scale’ in global climate change politics”, Symposium “Scale in Environmental Governance:  Power Reconfiguration, Democratic Legitimacy and Institutional (Mis-)fit”, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin (with Detlef Müller-Mahn).

 

2011, “Is it possible to fill the irreconcilable gap between the ecological modernization theory and metabolic rift theory? The case of the Green Growth strategies of South Korea”, Third Global Conference on Economic Geography 2011, Seoul (with Sang-Hun Lee).

 

2011, “Multi-scalar practices of labor and economic geographies of TNCs: A study on labor geographies of the Nestle Korea”, Third Global Conference on Economic Geography 2011, Seoul (with Bae-Gyoon Park).

 

2011, “The Impacts of the Local Growth Coalition and Politics of Scale on Formative Process of Seoul as a Global City: The Case of Dongdaemun Design Plaza & Park”, Annual meeting of the AAG, Seattle.


PROFESSIONAL SERVICES


ORGANIZING AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE:

 

Co-organizer with Bae-Gyoon Park, International Mini-workshop on "Contesting Political Ecologies of South Korea" (hosted by SSK Research Team on "State and Localities" in Seoul National University) 13 June 2014

 

PEER REVIEW FOR:

 

Journal of the Korean Geographical Society


RESEARCH EXPERIENCES

 

Sep. 2012 – Aug. 2014  Project: TERRECO (Complex TERRain and ECOlogical Heterogeneity), funded by DFG (German Research Foundation) (Project leader: John Tenhunnen; Project supervisor: Detlef Müller-Mahn)  

 

Sep. 2011 – Aug. 2012      Project: A Study on the State-Locality Relations in the Era of Developmenalism, funded by National Research Foundation of Korea (Project supervisor: Bae-Gyoon Park)

 

May. 2010 - Oct. 2010      Project: Review of Seoul Initiative Network on Green Growth, funded by Korea Environment Corporation (Project supervisor: Sang-Hun Lee)


FELLOWSHIPS

 

Teaching Assistantships in Seoul National University (1st Semester 2008, 2nd Semester 2008, 1st Semester 2010, 2nd Semester 2010, 1st Semester 2011, 2nd Semester 2011)

 

HONORS

 

The Distinguished Graduate Student Research Award, Department of Geography Education, Seoul National University, April 2012.

 

The Second Prize, Graduate Student Paper Competition 2011, organized by the Institute of Latin American Studies, Seoul National University, December 2011 (Paper titled “Making Alternative Economic Spaces under the Capitalism: An Experience with Workers-Run Companies in Argentina”). 


The Grand Prize, Graduate Student Paper Competition 2011, organized by the Center for Locality and Humanities, Pusan National University, June 2011 (Paper titled “Is labor internationalism a panacea? A case study of GM-Daewoo irregular workers’ union in the local community unionism”).