Park / Child Hill / Saito Locating Neoliberalism in East Asia

Neoliberalizing Spaces in Developmental States
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4443-4662-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
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E-Book, Englisch, 332 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Studies in Urban and Social Change

Locating Neoliberalism in East Asia: Neoliberalizing Spaces inDevelopmental States examines the influence of neo-liberalideologies on urban and regional policies and practices in severalAsian Pacific nations.
* Represents one of the few studies of neoliberal changes in EastAsia, one of the most important topics in social science researchover the past two decades
* Considers the Asian perspective by focusing on readings fromAsian experts
* Pays special attention to the 'spatial' dimension of theEast Asian neoliberalization
* Examines the influence of neo-liberal ideologies on urban andregional policies and practices in several Asian Pacificnations
* Explores the evolving relationship between the two politicaleconomies

Autoren/Hrsg.

Park, Bae-Gyoon

Child Hill, Richard

Saito, Asato

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Bae-Gyoon Park is an Associate Professor of Geography theCollege of Education at Seoul National University in Korea. Parkhas recently published papers in International Journal of Urbanand Regional Research, Political Geography, EconomicGeography and Critical Asian Studies.
Richard Child Hill is Emeritus Professor of Sociology atMichigan State University. Hill's published writings includeJapanese Cities in the World Economy ( 1993), NestedCities: The State and Urban Development in East Asia (2003),and Innovative Tokyo (2005), all co-authored with KunikoFujita.
Asato Saito is Visiting Lecturer in the Faculty of SocialPolicy and Administration at Hosei University. He is currentlyinvolved in studies comparing the governance arrangement atmetropolitan and regional scale in four world cities: London, NewYork, Paris and Tokyo; and one investigating New Regionalism andSmart Growth in US cities.