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Life & Communication - 인도 벵갈루루는 제2의 중관촌이 될 수 있을까?

  • Lee, Hyeon-U
    • TTA Journal
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    • s.160
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    • pp.130-131
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    • 2015
  • 인도 ICT 산업의 상징이자 바로미터는 벵갈루루(구 방갈로르)이다. 중국의 중관촌을 넘어서는 또 하나의 실리콘 밸리가 될 수 있을지, 아니면 단순한 글로벌 하청기지로 머무를지는 인도 산업계와 정부의 의지와 노력에 달려있지만 부인할 수 없는 분명한 것은 엄청난 잠재력이다.

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Experiences of Military Prostitute and Im/Possibility of Representation: Re-writing History from a Postcolonial Feminist Perspective (기지촌 여성의 경험과 윤리적 재현의 불/가능성: 탈식민주의 페미니스트 역사 쓰기)

  • Lee, Na-Young
    • Women's Studies Review
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.79-120
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    • 2011
  • The purpose of this paper is to illuminate the implication of feminist oral history from a postcolonial feminist perspective as critically reexamining the relationship between hearer and speaker, representer and narrator, the said and the unsaid, and secrecy and silence. Based upon oral (life) history of a U.S. military prostitute (yanggongju), I tried to show the experiences of a historically-excluded and marginalized 'Other,' and then critically reevaluate the meaning of encountering 'Other', not just through the research process but also in the post/colonial society in Korea. The narrative of an old woman in the "kijichon" (a formal prostitute in U.S. military base) shows how woman has navigated the boundaries between inevitability/coincidence, the enforced/the voluntary, prostitution/intimacy, and military prostitute/military bride while continually negotiating as well as having conflict with various myths and ideologies of the 'normative woman,' 'nationhood,' and 'normal family.' In addition, her narrative which causes the rupture of our own stereotypical images of a military prostitute not only proves the possibility of reconstructing the self-identity of a subaltern woman, but also redirects the research focus from the research object to the research subject (ourselves). Consequently, the implication in feminist oral history is that feminist researchers who whish to represent the experiences of other should first inquire 'what/how we can hear,' 'why we want to know others,' and 'who we are,' while simultaneously asking if subaltern woman can speak.

Site-Specific Art Practices as Intervention in the Era of Globalization: Focused on Two "Dongducheon" Art Projects (지구화 시대 개입으로서의 예술실천과 장소의 문제 : 동두천 작업을 중심으로)

  • Kim, Young-Ok
    • Women's Studies Review
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.73-109
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    • 2010
  • The cultural pluralism on which more and more emphasis is put in the globalized cultural environment, takes local identity as a crucial index for the cultural exchange on the global level, but at the same time it results in transforming individual regions/places into a homogeneous space, as it forces the local identity itself to fit into the standardized global perspective. In this context I focus on two art projects that are related to 'Dongducheon', a town that houses the U. S. Second Infantry Division. These projects attract specific attention due to the fact that Dongducheon is a significant place with very 'thick' cultural identity: it reveals that modernization in Korea took place in intersection of nationalism, patriarchy and gender/sexuality postcolonial (military) culture. With these two Dongducheon related art projects (Donglyung Kim) and (Eunyoung Jeong) as excellent examples of site-specific art practice, this paper asks what it means to keep the historicity of disappearing local space/place in the global era. And how is it possible to 'represent' an extremely gendered/sexualized place like Dongducheon. This should be examined from a postcolonial feminist perspective. Since emancipation from Japanese occupation Dongducheon has been an island or an outside space in the nation-state Korea. This becomes more complicated, as now mostly women from the Philippines or former Soviet countries are working in the nightclubs in Doungducheon. and are feminist activist experiments to make the place with its residents to be seen and heard in proper a way of mourning, recognition and communication. shows the 'new' kijich'on women as those who are daring to be on an 'Odyssey' for a better life as they run everyday life in Dongducheon, working in clubs, doing laundry, bearing children, going to mass; tries to help them to be heard and felt, while it gathers sounds on the street or at mass and shows the doors or narrow alleys which lead to the their rooms. It aims to mourn the dead kijich'on women and to represent the precarious life of the present migrant kijich'on women, as it shows no faces.