Claremont Discourse Presents Dr. Seo Young Park
Claremont Discourse Presents Dr. Seo Young Park In-Person
This Claremont Discourse* lecture, titled Stitching the 24-hour City: Life, Labor and the Problem of Speed in Seoul, features Scripps College Associate Professor of Anthropology Seo Young Park. Based on her book of the same title, Dr. Park will reveal the intense speed of garment production and everyday life in Dongdaemun, a lively market in Seoul, South Korea. Once the site of uprisings against oppressive working conditions in the 1970s and 80s, Dongdaemun has now become iconic for its creative economy, nightlife, fast-fashion factories and shopping plazas.
Dr. Park’s research follows the work of people who witnessed and experienced the rapidly changing marketplace from the inside. Through this approach, she examines the meanings and politics of work, focusing on what it takes for people to enable speedy production and circulation, as well as how they incorporate the critique of speed in the ways they make sense of their own work.
Stitching the 24-Hour City provides in-depth ethnographic accounts of the garment designers, workers and traders who sustain the extraordinary speed of fast fashion production and circulation, as well as the labor activists who challenge it. Attending to their narratives and practices of work, Dr. Park illuminates how speed is, rather than a singular drive of acceleration, an entanglement of uneven paces and cycles of life, labor, the market and the city itself.
Claremont Discourse lectures are free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided starting at 4 p.m.
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- Date:
- Thursday, February 29, 2024
- Time:
- 4:15pm - 5:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Pacific Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Founders Room, Honnold 2
- Campus:
- The Claremont Colleges Library
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- Claremont Discourse Featured
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