PhD Candidate International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) ISS PhD
- Location
- Kortenaerkade 12, 's - Gravenhage
- Room
- I0-20
- Telephone
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- kwak@iss.nl
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Seohee Kwak is currently a PhD candidate at the International Institute of Social Studies. Her research focuses on people’s opportunities and capacities for political action in the Vietnamese context.
She has worked as a researcher committed to research projects on gender and development in the Southeast Asian countries. She has published a few pieces of research pertaining to political action. With a geographical focus on the Southeast and Northeast Asian region, her academic interests include democratic/authoritarian politics, political conflicts, political rights, and collective political action.
- S. Kwak (2021). From Collective Action to Impeachment: Political Opportunities and Conditions for South Korea’s Candlelight Protests. The Korea Observer, 52 (1).
- S. Kwak (2019). Deconstructing the multi-layered nature of citizen participation in Vietnam: Conceptual connotations, discourses of international development, and the country’s institutional context. Asian Journal of Political Science, 27 (3), 257-271. doi: 10.1080/02185377.2019.1631866
- S. Kwak (2019). Constructing space for participatory governance in Vietnam: Reflections from the Hanoi tree movement. In S. Lam-Knott, C. Connolly & K.C. Ho (Eds.), Post-Politics and Civil Society in Asian Cities: Spaces of Depoliticisation. London: Routledge [go to publisher's site] doi: 10.4324/9780429298530
- S. Kwak (2020). Covid-19: Increased responsiveness helps South Korea legitimize authoritarian pandemic response measures. (blog). International Institute of Social Studies. (available: 30 Jul 2020).
- S. Kwak (2016). One Concept, Two Perspectives? Donor and State Interpretations of Local NGOs in Vietnam. 2016 Development Studies Associations annual conference: University of Oxford, U.K. (2016, september 12 - 2016, september 14).
PhD Candidate
- University
- Erasmus University Rotterdam
- School
- International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
- Department
- ISS PhD
- Telephone
- 31||31||