Stitching the 24-Hour City : : Life, Labor, and the Problem of Speed in Seoul / / Seo Young Park.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Park, Seo Young,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (186 p.) :; 11 b&w halftones, 3 maps

Stitching the 24-Hour City reveals 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, and fast-fashion factories and shopping plazas. Seo Young Park follows the work of people who witnessed and experienced the rapidly changing marketplace from the inside. Through this approach, Park examines the meanings and politics of work in one of the world's most vibrant and dynamic global urban marketplaces.Park's brings readers into close contact with 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, Park argues that speed is, rather than a singular drive of acceleration, an entanglement of uneven paces of life, labor, the market, and the city itself. Stitching the 24-Hour City exposes the understudied experiences with Dongdaemun fast fashion, peeling back layers of temporal politics of labor and urban space to record the human source of the speed that characterizes the never-ending movement of the twenty-four-hour city.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Part 1. SPEED AS EXPERIENCE -- 1. Affective Crowds and Making the 24-Hour City -- 2. Intimate Networks -- 3. Passionate Imitation -- Part 2. PROBLEMATIZATION OF SPEED -- 4. Redirecting the Future -- 5. Pacing the Flow -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index