For people living in Busan, the identity of shoes and Busan is strongly established. The connection between Busan and shoes is always strongly mediated by ‘female workers.’ There has been little qualitative research on female workers in the Busan area. At the same time, the position of women in Busan's economic history/industrial history has been minimal or invisible.
In this paper, I will name shoes female workers in the Busan as subjects of space and restore the various women's labor and their desires. Through this study, we aim to reveal the lives and memories of female workers who have been invisible in the region and actively intervene in local history.
To achieve this purpose, I reconstructed the experiences and memories of female workers at a shoe factory in Busan from a life history perspective. The strong power of ‘gendering’ was primarily at work in the advancement of female workers into society.
If the ‘leading role’ that connected gold and shoes was women, these women were the ones who produced Busan’s industrialized space (H. Lefebvre) and the ones who created the new landscape of the city. Also, this space and time is connected to the present.
However, it was confirmed that they reconstructed their identity as workers by using practical strategies to become female workers. The work of engaging ‘female workers’ in the time and space that connects Shoes and Busan will be the work of constructing a local narrative that goes beyond the gender geography of distorted memories.
동북아시아문화학회 [The Association of North-east Asian Cultures]
설립연도
2000
분야
복합학>학제간연구
소개
동북아시아 문화의 다양성과 정체성을 연구 토론하고, 지역내 문화 교류의 다양한 모습을 연구하고 문화변동의 큰 틀을 집적함으로써 우리 민족 문화 및 상대 민족의 문화적 터전을 이해하여 문화공동체적 특성을 계발하고 상호 관련성의 강화를 유도하는 학술활동을 통해 동북아시아의 문화발전에 이바지함.