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HAN KYOUNG AE
| Associate Professor |
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■ Research Keyword■ Field Of Study
- Humanities & social sciences, Money and finance
- Humanities & social sciences, Gender studies
- Humanities & social sciences, Human geography
- Oct. 2025 - Present, Saitama University, Center for Multicultral Collaborative Learning, Japan
- Jul. 2024 - Sep. 2025, Seoul National University, Asia Center, Korea, Republic of
- Nov. 2022 - Jun. 2023, Andong National University, Korea, Republic of
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■ Paper- Working‐in‐Commons in the Middle of Precarity: The Legacy of the Urban Commons Movement of South Korea in the 1970s
Didi Kyoung‐ae Han; Hyun Bang Shin
Antipode, Oct. 2025
Abstract
This article explores the endogenous characteristics of commons within the frameworks of precarity and commons through the urban commons movement in 1970s South Korea. During Korea's compressed capitalist transformation, rural migrants became the urban poor, occupying the lowest position in urban labour hierarchies. Through qualitative research methods and historical analysis, we examine the Nangok shantytown in Seoul, demonstrating how commons production is shaped by specific socio‐cultural, geographical, and anthropological realities. Despite their marginalised status in a patriarchal society, urban poor housewives emerged as agents of an urban commons movement by developing new urban sensibilities, challenging the capitalist norms of work and home and the conventional community practice. This article reveals how their “working‐in‐commons” constituted new social relationships, illuminating how people's collective attempts to reorganise livelihoods transcend the work/home or production/reproduction dichotomy. Our analysis enhances the understanding of the commons movement as rooted in everyday urban struggles in rapidly urbanising societies.
Wiley, Scientific journal
DOI：https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70081
DOI ID：10.1111/anti.70081, ISSN：0066-4812, eISSN：1467-8330 - Caring for uncommon bodies: Commoning yoseba through indifferent care and working together
Didi Kyoung-ae Han
Journal of Urban Affairs, Volume：47, Number：8, First page：2858, Last page：2877, Aug. 2024
Informa UK Limited, Scientific journal
DOI：https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2024.2379882
DOI ID：10.1080/07352166.2024.2379882, ISSN：0735-2166, eISSN：1467-9906 - Enabling infrastructure: seeing infrastructure as the urban commons
Bae-Gyoon Park; Ju Hyun Lee; Didi Kyoung-ae Han; Seoungwon Lee; Yilsoon Paek; Hanbyul Shim
International Journal of Urban Sciences, Volume：28, Number：4, First page：722, Last page：734, Feb. 2024
Informa UK Limited, Scientific journal
DOI：https://doi.org/10.1080/12265934.2024.2321337
DOI ID：10.1080/12265934.2024.2321337, ISSN：1226-5934, eISSN：2161-6779 - Turning a home into the common: the micro-politics of subjectivations in a cohousing community in Seoul
Didi Han
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Volume：19, Number：3, First page：372, Last page：385, Jul. 2018
Informa UK Limited, Scientific journal
DOI：https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2018.1497895
DOI ID：10.1080/14649373.2018.1497895, ISSN：1464-9373, eISSN：1469-8447
- ケアの空間たち: ケアをめぐる社会的感覚と十の空間読解
[Contributor]
Mar. 2026
ISBN：9791166292545 - 海賊の啓蒙主義
韓 敬愛; コ・ビョングォン, [Joint translation]
Jun. 2025
デヴィッド・グレーバー
ISBN：9791190413923 - 家族コミュニティにおける複数の時空間と到来すべき家族コミュニティ
[Contributor]
Mar. 2025
ISBN：9791169193061
- 韓国20-30代女性の政治主体化 そしてイデナム(20代男性)現象:戒厳令と弾劾集会を通して
韓 敬愛
Mar. 2026, [Invited]
Japanese, Invited oral presentation - Building for Freedom: Urban Vernacular Technology of Tokyo’s Homeless Toward Enabling Infrastructure
Didi Kyoung-ae Han
The East Asian History of Science Workshop:Decentering the circulations and transregional encounters: Knowledge, things, and intermediaries in East Asia, Dec. 2025, [Invited]
Dec. 2025 - Dec. 2025, English, Oral presentation