Past colloquium
Precarious Workers in the Speculative City: The Untold Gentrification Story of Tenant Shopkeepers’ Displacement and Resistance in Seoul
Colloquium in July 2019 Lee, Yewon Andrea (PhD Student, Department of Sociology at UCLA, U.S.) Based on ethnography and comparative history analysis, this study explores how the self-employed tenants in Seoul, South Korea have resisted their lessors in alliance with one another. According to the research, it is their shared experience Read more…