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Social coasts: Green growth, transformation of coastal space, and sea governance of East Asia

Choi, Young Rae
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1440422456

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2015, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Geography.
In this dissertation, I show that the coasts of East Asia are going through transformations through which coastal spaces are newly rationalized as sites for envisioning and realizing green growth. The transformations of East Asian seas are not an isolated event but an outcome of the multi-scalar processes through which global forces and national and local desires have interacted. Specifically, I focus on three moments of transformation – the establishment of China’s sea governance regime, China’s coastal reclamation boom, and the rise of tidal flat fisheries in South Korea. Through this dissertation I make three overarching arguments. First, it is not merely the imperative for economic growth alone but the system of sea governance that produces coastal space as an object of comprehensive management that enables the rationalization of coasts as particular spaces for green growth. Second, in these transformative events, economic development and environmental conservation are packaged together as a spatial remodeling project. This results in marginalization of coastal populations in ways that undermine conventional means of resistance. Third, although the transformative process is controversial and vulnerable due to the assumption of continued growth, the capitalization of coastal space is intensified. As a discipline that critically investigates the complex relations between space and power and between society and nature, geography has not fully arrived on coasts. This dissertation brings to the fore the production of coastal space and its governance as a subject of study. Using geographic lenses of critical political economy and political ecology, it seeks to retrieve coasts as a social and vibrant place that emerge from a series of historical socio-natural transformations, which I call social coasts.
Becky Mansfield (Advisor)
Kendra McSweeney (Committee Member)
Joel Wainwright (Committee Member)
Max Woodworth (Committee Member)
220 p.
Geography
sea governance; coastal space; reclamation; green growth; sustainable development; East Asia; China; South Korea;

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  • Choi, Y. R. (2015). Social coasts: Green growth, transformation of coastal space, and sea governance of East Asia [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1440422456

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Choi, Young Rae. Social coasts: Green growth, transformation of coastal space, and sea governance of East Asia. 2015. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1440422456.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Choi, Young Rae. "Social coasts: Green growth, transformation of coastal space, and sea governance of East Asia." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1440422456

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