Jesook Song
Jesook Song received her B.A. in Education Science at the Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. She received her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology with a minor degree in Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. She is currently researching and writing a book on labor, welfare, and money primarily based on the contexts of South Korea, but not limited to.
Education
- PhD, University of Illinois
Research Interests
- homelessness
- youth unemployment
- single women's housing
- psychological health support system
Publications
- 2024 Mediating Genders in the Post-authoritarian South Korea. Co-edited with Michelle Cho, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
- 2021 “Double Sanitizations via Universal Basic Income during the Pandemic”, Intervention Symposium: The Sanitization of/via Populism during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Antipode: a Radical Journal of Geography
- 2021 “Introduction”, Intervention Symposium: The Sanitization of/via Populism during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Antipode: a Radical Journal of Geography (co-authored with Sophia Jaworski, Ferda Demirci, and Nicholas Abrams).
- 2019 On the Margins of Urban South Korea: Core Location as Method and Praxis. Co-edited with Laam Hae, Toronto: University of Toronto Press
- 2018 “Breaking Down Boundaries and Forging New Paths: The Living Memory of Nancy Abelmann” co-edited with Eleana Kim Journal of Asian Studies 77(4)
- 2017 “Gendered Care Work as “Free Labor” in State Employment: School Social Workers in the Education Welfare (Investment) Priority Project in South Korea” Journal of Asian Studies. 76(3): 751-768
- 2014 Living on Your Own: Single Women, Rent Housing, Post-Revolutionary Affect in Contemporary South Korea, Albany: SUNY Press
- 2013 “Governmental Entanglements: The Ambiguities of Progressive Politics in Neoliberal Reform in South Korea” in Global Future in East Asia Stanford: Stanford University Press
- 2012 “Korea Through Ethnography” Special issue of Journal of Korean Studies, Volume 17, Issue 2, co-edited with Nancy Abelmann
- 2012 “Positioning Asia in a Global Future?: An Example through Rethinking Finance” in special issue of “Twenty Years After” positions: asia critique 20(1): 173-182
- 2011 “Situating Homelessness in the Post-Developmental Welfare State: The Case of South Korea” Urban Geography 32(7): 972-988
- 2010 New Millennium South Korea: Neoliberal Capitalism and Transnational Movements. ed. by Jesook Song London: Routledge.
- 2010 Gender and Class in Korea and Japan: Sexing Class (edited by Ruth Barrachlough and Elyssa Faison, Routledge, 2009), Pacific Affairs 83(4): 799-800.
- 2010 Welfare Reform and Sexual Regulation (by Anna Marie Smith, Cambridge University Press, 2007) to Feminist Review, 95: 16-18
- 2010 ‘A Room of One’s Own’: The Meaning of Spatial Autonomy for Unmarried Women in Neoliberal South Korea. Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 17(2): 131-149
- 2009 Between Flexible Life and Flexible Labor: The Inadvertent Convergence of Socialism and Neoliberalism in South Korea. Critique of Anthropology. 29(2): 139-159
- 2009 South Korea in the Debt Crisis: The Creation of a Neoliberal Welfare Society. Durham: Duke University Press.