New publication: Vacant warehouses as placeholders of fortune
Joo Hwang, "Temporary Storages" (2011) I have a new article in a monograph published by mediabus. This was my “fun writing project” for the year — an essay on capitalist development and logistics...
View ArticleCorrection on “critical distance”
The cool thing is that my 2010 article in Geoforum, “Neither friends or foes: Thoughts on ethnographic distance” (PDF) was recently cited by someone. The not so cool thing is that my point was...
View ArticleCritical Asian Studies: Reframing North Korean Human Rights (Part 1)
The following articles in the thematic issue of Critical Asian Studies on Reframing North Korean Human Rights (part 1) are free to download until the end of February 2014. Reframing North Korean Human...
View ArticleCritical Asian Studies: Reframing North Korean Human Rights (Part 2)
In addition to Part 1 in Critical Asian Studies 45:4 (December 2013), Part 2 of Reframing North Korean Human Rights has been published. Guest edited by Christine Hong and Hazel Smith, Part 2 in...
View ArticleTwo book chapters coming soon in 2015
Coming soon! One is about the Korean missionaries’ work in East Africa, and the other is about labour organizing and urban megachurches in Seoul. Take a peek at the uncorrected proof copies on...
View ArticleThe politics of homophobia in South Korea – EAFQ
A short piece I wrote in early May just came out in East Asia Forum Quarterly, published by the Australian National University. Parts of it already feel outdated, but I’m glad I highlighted the...
View ArticleNew publication: “Shifting Geographies of Proximity” in Ethnographies of U.S....
Mine feels like such an old piece of writing, but I’m excited to be part of this amazing collection. Han, JHJ. 2018. “Shifting Geographies of Proximity: Korean-led Evangelical Christian Missions and...
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