It was in the first half of 90’s that the Korean waste management policies have made the basic framework aiming to minimization. But it does not seem easy to bring the policy aim into reality. Total amounts of waste has been continuously increasing ...
It was in the first half of 90’s that the Korean waste management policies have made the basic framework aiming to minimization. But it does not seem easy to bring the policy aim into reality. Total amounts of waste has been continuously increasing 7.1 % per year up to now 1998, while house waste has been decreasing after 1993.
This article purposes to analyse Korean Waste Management Policies from the viewpoint of gender. At the beginning point of research there were a couple of questions: Did the reduction of house waste amounts depend on the mobilization of unpaid women’s labor?; Did’nt this overburden of household work have causal relation with social structure so called "patriarchy"? From these questions I assume that Korean Waste Policies have increasing the house work through systemic muti-level-cause-network related to androcentric structure and culture.
To certify this assumption, I review the concept "mainstreaming" and gender analysis accepted in Peking Conference 1995, and the feminist political ecology putting an attention on gender analysis in environment policy. As well known the world in ecology is half-open and multi-leveled, so the political ecology in policy analysis is a set of research method experiments focusing the interactional dynamics between an individual action(choice) and half-open multi-leveled decision making circles.
This article is composed of three parts. Chapter 2 gives feminist color on political ecology in order to elaborate several gender analysis questions in a framework. With these inquiries Korean waste management policy’s history is reviewed in chapter 3. And I argued that the overburden of women' housework under Korean waste management policy has multi-level causes, and it should be compensated by structural transformation toward gender equality and 'feminine principle'.