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CITY Seminar: Living on Your Own: Single Women, Rental Housing, and Post-Revolutionary Affect in Contemporary South Korea

CITY Seminar: Living on Your Own: Single Women, Rental Housing, and Post-Revolutionary Affect in Contemporary South Korea

On Friday 3 October, the City Institute at York University (CITY) presents:

“Living on Your Own: Single Women, Rental Housing, and
Post-Revolutionary Affect in Contemporary South Korea” by Jesook Song

Jesook Song is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. She
is the author of South Koreans in the Debt Crisis: The Creation of a Neoliberal Welfare
Society and the editor of New Millennium South Korea: Neoliberal Capitalism and
Transnational Movements. She is a South Korean specialist, trained in socio-cultural
anthropology and women/gender/sexuality studies. Her research interests include
(neo)liberalization, policing family, homelessness, young adult's
unemployment, residential autonomy of unmarried women, psychological health support
system, speculations, care labor, social movement, and migration.

Friday October 3, 2014
12:30 -2:00 pm
Room 626, Kaneff Tower
York University

 

Check out the poster for the event: Jesook Song - City Seminar - October 3 2014

Check out the poster for her book: Jesook Song - Living on Your Own