The purpose of this thesis is to find a way for the ‘reformative dismantling’ of the red light district. In this paper, reformative dismantling means dismantling the structure that made prostitution possible in that space in a more restorative way...
The purpose of this thesis is to find a way for the ‘reformative dismantling’ of the red light district. In this paper, reformative dismantling means dismantling the structure that made prostitution possible in that space in a more restorative way, through mutual understanding and communication between various actors such as local residents and women, unlike the general demolition of red light district.
In this paper, the concept of 'space of exception' is newly defined by taking a perspective based on the discussion of Agamben's 'homo sacer' and 'state of exception'. The space of exception is a space where the state of exception defined by Agamben is spatially placed on the urban space. It is also the space where expelled marginalities, or the homo sacer situates itself, and where it poses the state of exception agianst the urban space. This paper analyzes the red light district as an exceptional space bounded by sovereign violence according to the historical and social context.
In order to dismantle this exceptional space, this study analyze ‘Seonmichon’, a red lgiht district in Jeonju. Unlike other red light districts, Seonmichon promotes a reformative dismantling through human rights discourse and art. The space of memory and related spatial practices were used as a major means of reorganizing the power of memory that is posed on the community surrounding the red light district.
The reason why this unusual change attempt was possible in Seonmichon was because gender governance was established and operated in the local community. This study analyzes the positions and interests of the actors related to Seonmichon in Jeonju, and examines the interactions between them. From this, the study aims to derive the significance and limitations of gender governance, and see the dynamics of the gender governance in itself.
The results of this study define ‘space of exception’ from Agamben's theory and analyze the red light district as a space of exception, historically and actively partitioned by the state. This suggests an urban planning task on how to analyze and dismantle these exceptional spaces in a reformative way. In addition, this study theoretically suggests the relationship between memory and power, and shows how to reorganize the power of memory that existed in the space with the space of memory and its relative spatial practice. Through this process, the process of recovering the space and the social trauma that the community had in relation to the space was examined. By analyzing gender governance as a methodology for each actor and showing the significance and limitations, it was shown that creative results different from the existing top-down urban planning can be derived.