10 results on '"Sang-hyoun Pahk"'
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2. Farm and Bunker (The D’Angelo/Zimmerman Letters)
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Jan Dickey, Sang-hyoun Pahk, and Colleen Rost-Banik
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Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) ,Education - Published
- 2022
3. Who is ruining farmers markets? Crowds, fraud, and the fantasy of 'real food'
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Sang-hyoun Pahk
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050204 development studies ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,0507 social and economic geography ,Economic Justice ,Racism ,Agrarian society ,Politics ,Aesthetics ,Reflexivity ,0502 economics and business ,Narrative ,Sociology ,Fantasy ,050703 geography ,Agronomy and Crop Science ,The Imaginary ,media_common - Abstract
Critical food scholars have long noted that much of local food discourse in the US is underwritten by a deeply regressive agrarian imaginary that valorizes “small family farms” while erasing historical legacies of racism. In this paper, I examine one influential expression of the agrarian imaginary that I call the fantasy of “real food,” and illustrate how that discourse contributes to ongoing exclusions in farmers markets. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis, I explain how the fantasy of real food positions white middle-class consumers to view themselves as protagonists in a romantic narrative of loss and recovery, in which their enlightened consumption practices precipitate the return of authentic social relations and connections to nature. I then trace the influence of this fantasy through a reading of selected popular media, and illustrate how the racist, classist, and patriarchal antipathies of the agrarian imaginary find legitimate expression in an alternate form as affectively charged moral and aesthetic commitments. Finally, I show how this fantasy logic makes both the exclusion of outsiders and the policing of farmers appear not only reasonable but morally righteous. I conclude by arguing that we cannot rely on the reflexivity of the privileged to deliver justice, no matter how well-meaning they may be, and suggest that we need new imaginaries and new narratives to guide our politics of consumption.
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- 2021
4. On the epistemological limits of 'real food' discourse
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Sang-Hyoun Pahk
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Cultural Studies ,Social Psychology ,050204 development studies ,0502 economics and business ,05 social sciences ,MathematicsofComputing_GENERAL ,0507 social and economic geography ,Environmental ethics ,Sociology ,Consumption (sociology) ,050703 geography ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,Food Science - Abstract
As part of the wider discourse of “real food,” consumers today are exhorted to “know where their food comes from” and “know their farmers.” This paper presents a critical analysis of real food disc...
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- 2021
5. Nostalgia and the Protection of White Supremacy at a Public Farmers' Market.
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Babb, Angela, Betz, Megan, Sang-hyoun Pahk, and Smith, Isis
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WHITE supremacy ,ACTIVISTS - Abstract
In 2019, an organic produce vendor in a Bloomington, Indiana, farmers' market was exposed as an active member of the violent white supremacist organization Identity Evropa, sparking national conversation about the whiteness of local food and local controversy over the vendor's continued inclusion in the market. Activist groups and community members argued for the vendor's removal from the market at public meetings and protested the vendor's stand throughout the remainder of the season. Remarkably, official policy and much of public sentiment resolved on the side of the white supremacist vendor, while activists were arrested and silenced. Drawing on discourse analysis and participant observation, this article addresses three related dynamics. First, we highlight the resonances between the nostalgic rhetoric of local food and aspects of white nationalist ideology to explain why white supremacists in general might see farmers' markets as an appropriate site to further their racial project. Second, we illustrate how overlapping themes including motherhood, community membership, and organic links between people and land operated to shield the white supremacist vendor from public scrutiny. Finally, we show how parallel rhetoric was deployed against activists who objected to the presence of white supremacists in the market, so the activists became the identified source of disruption and exclusionary violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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6. Dr D’Angelo’s hidden chord (three utopias?)
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Sang-hyoun Pahk, Jan Dickey, and Colleen Rost-Banik
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Higher education ,business.industry ,05 social sciences ,050301 education ,0506 political science ,Education ,Deliberative democracy ,Political education ,Postsecondary education ,050602 political science & public administration ,Mathematics education ,Chord (music) ,Sociology ,business ,0503 education - Abstract
In this article we attempt to envision what utopian higher education could be given the realities that currently shape students’ experiences. Postsecondary education is fraught with admissions that favor those with social, cultural, and economic capital; with course enrollment, class size, and instructor accessibility governed by bureaucratic labyrinths and austerity measures; and with major and career selection constrained by looming student debt. As higher education perpetually reproduces social stratification and increasingly mimics corporate practices, it is imperative to ask who and what higher education is for. Why do we continue to engage in it? Are there ways to salvage it from within, or does it require demolishing, clearing the rubble, and building from scratch? Can a utopian version of higher education exist at all if wider social relations endure? Using speculative fiction, this piece grapples with re-envisioning higher education as students’ daily lives, and the world at large, remain within the confines of capitalist realism.
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- 2021
7. Misappropriation as market making: Butler, Callon, and street food in San Francisco, California
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Sang-hyoun Pahk
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Cultural Studies ,Constitution ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Agency (philosophy) ,Gender studies ,Performative utterance ,Market maker ,0506 political science ,Argument ,0502 economics and business ,Performativity ,050602 political science & public administration ,Science studies ,Sociology ,050203 business & management ,Misappropriation ,media_common ,Law and economics - Abstract
Although failure and misappropriation have been central to Judith Butler’s theorizing of performativity, such concerns have been largely absent in the performativity studies of markets inspired by Michel Callon. Indeed, Callon’s performativity has been criticized for ‘presuming efficacity’ and overemphasizing ‘stabilizing processes’. In this paper, I propose a distinction between ‘science studies’ performativity (which privileges economic theory) and ‘performative agency’ (which attends to the constitution of economic agency). Previous attempts to discuss Callon and Butler together have tended to oppose her performativity to the former approach, but I suggest that the latter allows for a more productive engagement. I illustrate how this alternative offers a way to address persistent critiques of market performativity by incorporating Butler’s understanding of performative failure. The usefulness of this argument is demonstrated through a case study of the recent transformation of the street food m...
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- 2017
8. The Realpolitik of Nuclear Risk: When Political Expediency Trumps Technical Democracy
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Hiro Saito and Sang-Hyoun Pahk
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Focus (computing) ,Multidisciplinary ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Realpolitik ,050905 science studies ,Democracy ,0506 political science ,Politics ,Political economy ,Law ,Political science ,050602 political science & public administration ,0509 other social sciences ,media_common - Abstract
In recent years, a growing number of researchers in science and technology studies have begun to examine the relationship between science and politics. Specifically, they focus on citizen participation in highly technical policy problems and explore the possibility of a technical democracy that avoids pitfalls of technocracy. This focus, however, downplays a possibly more serious obstacle to technical democracy than technocracy, namely, realpolitik. Based on ethnographic and textual data on citizen–government interactions in the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster, we first show how citizens mobilised radiation detectors and counter-experts to force the Japanese government to admit scientific uncertainty about the permissible dose limit. We then explain why this successful mobilisation nonetheless had only a small impact on evacuation and compensation policies in terms of the pre-disaster structure of Japanese politics: the dominance of commission-based policy-making allowed the bureaucratic government to play realpolitik in the face of scientific uncertainty to expediently pursue its own interest, circumventing both democratic deliberation and technical rigour.
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- 2016
9. Cost-minimizing networks among immiscible fluids in ℝ2
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Sang-Hyoun Pahk, Ting Ng, David Futer, David McMath, Andrei Gnepp, Cara Yoder, and Brian A. Munson
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Cone (topology) ,Plane (geometry) ,General Mathematics ,Mathematical analysis ,Node (circuits) ,Soap film ,Focus (optics) ,Topology ,Constant (mathematics) ,Unit disk ,Counterexample ,Mathematics - Abstract
We model interfaces between immiscible fluids as cost-minimizing networks, where “cost” is a weighted length. We consider conjectured necessary and sufficient conditions for when a planar cone is minimizing. In some cases we give a proof; in other cases we provide a counterexample. In planar networks of soap films, segments meet in triples to form 120 ◦ angles. Such angles are characteristic of nodes in length-minimizing networks. In this paper, we study the geometry of cost-minimizing planar networks, where we define cost to be weighted length. These networks have a much richer geometry than do soap-film networks. In particular, cost-minimizing networks can meet in any number around a node, with the angles between segments determined by their relative costs. For examples of cost-minimizing networks, we look largely to immiscible fluids. When two immiscible fluids come together in a region of the plane, they meet to form an interface. This interface has an associated energy proportional to its length, which gives rise to a “cost constant.” When several fluids come together, they form a network of interfaces, each interface with a specific cost constant. The fluids arrange themselves so as to minimize the total energy or cost. (Other generalizations of length-minimizing networks can be found in the surveys [HRW] and [IT].) In general, one might impose area constraints on the regions occupied by the fluids. For this paper, though, we focus on the local behavior — how fluids come together at nodes. So we assume our networks are in the unit disk, and area constraints are replaced by constraints on how the regions meet the boundary circle. Our candidates for local minimizers are simply cones in the disk. The conjecture. We consider conjectured conditions for a cone to be minimizing. Conjecture 2.5 [FMMP, Conj. 2.7] states that a cone is minimizing if and only if a certain condition holds. This “calibration” condition involves placing a
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- 2000
10. Performativity and market change [DRAFT 1.1 ASA 2014]: San Francisco's street food boom.
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Sang-hyoun Pahk
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This paper seeks to advance Michel Callon's performativity theory in the sociology of markets by applying the theory to a case of market change. Drawing on ethnographic data on the transformation of the street food market in San Francisco, CA from 2008 to 20010, I argue that performativity theory can be improved by more fully incorporating the distinction.first highlighted in this context in Judith Butler's (2010) critique.between illocution and perlocution. Callon's performativity theory in economic sociology shows that economic theories are not mere descriptions of naturally arising phenomena by revealing the work that necessarily goes into assembling markets (and the agencies that inhabit them). In particular, Callon's theory highlights how theories themselves, through the intervention of market devices, come to reshape the markets they purport to describe such that they become accurate descriptions. However, performativity theory has been criticized for overemphasizing the stability of markets while leaving market change undertheorized (Overdevest 2011). Starting from the exchange between Butler and Callon (2010) in the Journal for Cultural Economy, I extend the linguistic concepts of illocution and perlocution by analogy to illocutionary and perlocutionary use of material devices .devices that are either deployed as intended in the right "total situation" or used 'gspeculatively" to produce uncertain effects. I argue that the devices deployed in the transformation of the street food market in San Francisco can be understood as an example of this second type, thus opening the way for a fuller theorization of market change from within performativity theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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