• The Journal of Learner-Centered Curriculum and Instruction (JLCCI)
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.243-276
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• 2018

This paper analyzes the possibilities and practical limitations of ecological welfare commons in the case of Hansalim Seoul's community care. As a commons against social-ecological crisis, the localized Salim movement in Hansalim Seoul is noteworthy as an articulation of ecological transition and socialization of care. Community care as a part of the localized Salim movement suggests the possibilities of good care by pursuing comprehensive care beyond functional(or physical) care and trying to improve the conditions of care work. In addition, Hansalim Seoul's community care is experimenting with the combination of care service and ecological transition based on a comprehensive definition of care. Of course, the scale of welfare commons in Hansalim Seoul is limited and it is not enough to fundamentally solve the undervaluation and feminization of care work. However, the tension between welfare commons and universal welfare is alleviated by pursuing open welfare commons. In the localized Salim movement, commoning focuses on experimenting with the articulation of ecological transition and socialization of care and on spreading alternatives based on its experiments. If such commoning is spread and public support is strengthened, the ecological welfare commons will be able to develope as an alternative that combines ecological welfare and good care.

• The Journal of Learner-Centered Curriculum and Instruction (JLCCI)
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.75-105
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• 2019

As energy transition accelerates and transition politics intensifies, the strategy and pathway of energy transition are becoming an issue. And there is a growing interest in energy democracy as a discourse criticizing market-led energy transition and seeking fundamental restructuring of energy system. However, the imaginations of energy democracy are different from each other as a social movement discourse and a criterion for political evaluation of energy transition. This study aims to analyze the issues of energy democracy and reinterpret them from the perspective of the Commons. As various social movements are connected, energy democracy includes elements of localization, decentralization, liberalization, commoning and socialization that can conflict with each other in terms of transition strategy. In addition, the imagination of the subject of energy transition is diverging between investors, consumers, workers, and energy citizens. Thinking about energy infrastructure as the Commons in this situation helps to understand the critical issues of energy democracy and to imagine new transition experiments. Energy democracy implies that the new commons are being created across the scale of energy infrastructure in the contention of the transition to a decentralized renewable energy system.

• The Journal of Learner-Centered Curriculum and Instruction (JLCCI)
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.35-74
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• 2019

The relationship of the local unit village organizations and the commons has a very complicated character. In the rural areas of Korea, there are still many village organizations that were made during the period of Japanese colonial rule (1910-1945) and the era of the Park Chung-hee's military government rule (the early 1960s). First of all, there is a development committee which were made at the time of Park's military administration. The committee has several subordinate organizations, such as senior citizens association, youth association, women's association which are involved in the decision making structure of the community. Those organizations are related indirectly with commons, so they exercise their influence over the management and disposal of commons of the community. In each village, there are some organizations to manage commons like union of ranches, forest GYE (*It's like 'association'), fishing village GYE. In many cases, those members were matched up with the committee's and were organized at the colonial period and the period of the military regime. However, organizations linked to commons have been keeping rules and norms of resource management and have been gaining a relative autonomy for a long time before organizing them in the top-down ways. The relationship between local unit village organizations and the commons has been defined by the development paradigm. The development committees, and senior citizens association and youth association have accepted the idea of modernizing rural areas. The modernized time, they have sold the village's land to external capital. But they also took the part of a role to preserve the village's commons through the managing the asset owned by the village at times. So in some villages, the organizations play a leading role to sell a asset of the village, and in another villages, the organizations take a core role not to sell it. The purpose of this report is to explain the complex activities for the using and managing the commons of local unit villages in Jeju island which is called 'Commons Island' due to hold many commons in South Korea. Through this research, we expect to be able to provide more rich discussion on how the village's internal cultural and organizational characteristics work with commons recognition and practice triggered by changes in external conditions.

• The Journal of Learner-Centered Curriculum and Instruction (JLCCI)
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.7-40
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• 2018

This article aims to analyze sharing city and energy transition policies of Metropolitan Seoul in terms of the theory of sustainability transition. The concept of sustainability transition provides a framework to analyze how sustainability oriented long-term transition emerges from the existing social institutions and incumbents and who/how steers this process. For solving environmental challenges as systemic problems, system/regime transition for sustainability is needed and reflexive governance as well in this process. Especially, with these reflexive interventions, the consideration of politics of transition is essential. This paper analyzes cases of 'Nanum Car (car sharing)', 'Seoul Bike (public bike)' as 'sharing city' policy and 'One less nuclear power plant (OLNPP)', 'Energy self-reliant villages' as energy transition policy. We found out that reflexive governance and transition politics of car sharing were not successful, but public bike policy had a potential for transition to sustainable transportation system. These two cases, however, provided little potential for new mode of politics of transition. OLNPP and 'Energy self-reliant villages' have made an opportunity for system/regime transition through making vision of post-nuclear system and achieving ecological and social justice goals. In terms of governance and politics of transition, the latter two cases made a new mode of sustainability governance and power relations.