Multi‐Scalar Practices of the Korean State in Global Climate Politics: The Case of the Global Green Growth Institute |
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| Authors: | Jin‐Tae Hwang Sang‐Hun Lee Detlef Müller‐Mahn |
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| Institution: | 1. Seoul National University Asia Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea;2. Graduate School of Social Innovation Business, Hanshin University, Republic of Korea;3. Department of Geography, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany |
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| Abstract: | The paper examines the significance of state territoriality and the related multi‐scalar practices of the state in the light of the symptoms of post‐politics exemplified in global environmental governance. The focus rests on the South Korean government's Green Growth (GG) strategy and the efforts to export this strategy as a role model to emerging economies worldwide through the establishment of the Global Green Growth Institute. We begin with the question why the Korean government is going global with a political program that is heavily disputed at home. We then study the practices by which the state manages to maintain its territoriality under the conditions of global climate change. Lastly, we discuss how multi‐scalar practices of environmental governance in the GG strategy are applied by state and non‐state actors both in Korea and abroad. |
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| Keywords: | state territoriality scalar politics post‐politics green growth construction‐oriented state South Korea |
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