TY - JOUR
T1 - A study of state–nature relations in a developmental state
T2 - the water resource policy of the Park Jung-Hee regime, 1961–79
AU - Hwang, Jin Tae
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PY - 2015/9/1
Y1 - 2015/9/1
N2 - Along with the literature on the ‘social construction of nature’, some scholars have recently emphasized the role of the state in the construction of nature by arguing that among various social forces and actors, the state plays a key role in making the discursive and material construction of nature. Based on this argument, and by focusing on the water resource policy of the Park Jung-Hee regime in South Korea (1961–79), this paper aims to explore the ways in which the state–nature relationship is materially and discursively produced by social forces that pursue their political and economic ends by acting in and through the state. Based on these analyses, this paper emphasizes the significance of the the state's role in hydropolitics, and suggests that hydropolitics should be seen in terms of materially and discursively contested interactions among social forces acting in and through the state and nature.
AB - Along with the literature on the ‘social construction of nature’, some scholars have recently emphasized the role of the state in the construction of nature by arguing that among various social forces and actors, the state plays a key role in making the discursive and material construction of nature. Based on this argument, and by focusing on the water resource policy of the Park Jung-Hee regime in South Korea (1961–79), this paper aims to explore the ways in which the state–nature relationship is materially and discursively produced by social forces that pursue their political and economic ends by acting in and through the state. Based on these analyses, this paper emphasizes the significance of the the state's role in hydropolitics, and suggests that hydropolitics should be seen in terms of materially and discursively contested interactions among social forces acting in and through the state and nature.
KW - developmental state
KW - Park Jung-Hee
KW - South Korea
KW - state-nature relation
KW - water resource policy
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U2 - 10.1177/0308518X15594922
DO - 10.1177/0308518X15594922
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84946820813
SN - 0308-518X
VL - 47
SP - 1926
EP - 1943
JO - Environment and Planning A
JF - Environment and Planning A
IS - 9
ER -