Organizing Everyday Spaces of Solidarity for Defending Livelihoods in Urban Korea

Based on ethnographic research, my presentation highlights the politics of solidarity that emerge from acts of spatialized civil disobedience. In particular, I study the tenant shopkeepers organizing against the displacement and precaritization of their urban livelihoods by occupying their shops against eviction orders. I engage with the insights of Against Abandonment by highlighting how “care infrastructures” for organizing can grow and morph through everyday spatialized practices at a time when heightened speculation on urban spaces is threatening the very prospect of sustaining an enduring relationship with space in urban Korea.