Abstract
Conflicts in the construction of large public facilities carried out as national projects are crucial issues we have to deal with. There are growing concerns for and oppositions to large construction projects in terms of environmental deterioration and the dissolution of local communities. In the case of projects that promise the creation of jobs and investment, the competition and disputes are increasing and being intensified. Therefore, there is a considerable amount of study on the competitions and conflicts between regions. Previous studies have focused on the procedures of public policy, governance structure, the role of local media. Contrary to the previous studies, this study investigates the spatial ways of constructing conflicts. Based on the analysis of the project of "Southeastern New International Airport”, there is a mismatch between the spatial boundary of cost/benefit and agents (regions) of disputes. The agents of conflicts also show the politics of multiple scales by constructing alliances and breaking the network in the process of the airport project. The findings suggest that the conflicts on regional development should be understood as the construction of dynamic regional politics on regional development rather than as the by-product in the practice of policies.
Translated title of the contribution | The spatial construction of conflicts: the politics of scales in the conflicts over "Southeastern New International Airport" in Korea |
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Original language | Korean |
Pages (from-to) | 474-488 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Journal of the Korean Association of Regional Geographers |
Volume | 21 |
Issue number | 3 |
Publication status | Published - 31 Aug 2015 |
Keywords
- Southeastern New Airport
- Gadeokdo
- Miryang
- conflicts
- politics of scale