(Seohee) S Kwak
- Location
- Kortenaerkade 12, 's - Gravenhage
- Room
- I0-23
- Telephone
- 0612724321
- kwak@iss.nl
Profile
Seohee Kwak is a PhD candidate working on institutional and extra-institutional forms of political action and state response in Vietnam.
She worked at a government-affiliated research institute (Korean Women’s Development Institute) for over three years before coming to ISS/EUR. She has conducted various research projects on gender and development in the Southeast Asian countries (publications in Korean).
She has also published her researches on political participation in Vietnam (publications in English).
With focus on the Southeast/Northeast Asian countries, her academic interests include authoritarian politics, state-society relations, political rights/freedoms, protests and social movements.
Seohee Kwak is a PhD candidate working on institutional and extra-institutional forms of political action and state response in Vietnam.
She worked at a government-affiliated research institute (Korean Women’s Development Institute) for over three years before coming to ISS/EUR. She has conducted various research projects on gender and development in the Southeast Asian countries (publications in Korean).
She has also published her researches on political participation in Vietnam (publications in English).
With focus on the Southeast/Northeast Asian countries, her academic interests include authoritarian politics, state-society relations, political rights/freedoms, protests and social movements.
- 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).
PhD Candidate
- University
- Erasmus University Rotterdam
- School
- International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
- Department
- ISS PhD
- Telephone
- 0612724321