Hee Eun Kwon

Sociologist and ethnographer on migration, belonging, cosmopolitanism, Gulf | UTokyo via @ucsandiego, @nyuabudhabi | she/her

[Hee Eun Kwon @HeeEunKwon_]

My heart is with them today, as I pray for my family and friends in the UAE. May their sleep tonight be peaceful.
حفظكم الله وقواكم

[Hee Eun Kwon @HeeEunKwon_]

Being on this app more than ever monitoring the situation, I'm struck by the volume of reductionist and often vile commentary towards the region (especially Dubai), and who the outsiders think live there. These tropes grossly overlook the lived reality of everyday individuals.

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This is the precise homing in perpetual foreignness that I write about. The place has its flaws - but at the end of the day, it is one that many (myself included) dearly call "home".
https://t.co/vFa1GLMtW8

[Hee Eun Kwon @HeeEunKwon_]

It pains me that this is happening during Ramadan.

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

A barrage of Iranian strikes caused havoc across the Gulf on Saturday, shattering the aura of peace in the Gulf monarchies.
Missiles streaked across clear desert skies as smoke plumed from US bases in Manama and Abu Dhabi and shook high rises in Dubai.
https://t.co/kUUF6wFX9h

[Reuters @Reuters]

BREAKING: South Korea's Constitutional Court decided to oust President Yoon Suk Yeol, upholding parliament's impeachment motion over his short-lived imposition of martial law last year that sparked the country's worst political crisis in decades https://t.co/65xpRHFpZV

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

#BREAKING South Korea president declares emergency martial law, says measure necessary to protect country from North's "communist forces"

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

In her oeuvre, 2024 literature laureate Han Kang confronts historical traumas and invisible sets of rules and, in each of her works, exposes the fragility of human life. She has a unique awareness of the connections between body and soul, the living and the dead, and in her poetic and experimental style has become an innovator in contemporary prose.

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[Isabel Pike @isabelggpike]

If you are going to Montreal for #ASA2024 with children, this is quite an amazing website. It features a Google map with hundreds of playgrounds and splash-pads across the city! @ASAnews

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[Hee Eun Kwon @HeeEunKwon_]

@plasencia_z @ASAnews @Rutgers_Newark Warmest congratulations, excited for you!

[Hee Eun Kwon @HeeEunKwon_]

What a day it's been! Thanks again to Julia & @runzach for organizing ☺️

[Zach Griffen @runzach]

Final JTS program if anyone happens to already be in Montreal and wants to swing by!

[Hee Eun Kwon @HeeEunKwon_]

@akmskarpelis @WZB_Berlin @qcsociology Warmest congratulations!!! So well deserved 🎉

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@laavy_k Lovely campus, excited for you!

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@rhacel Congratulations!!

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@_dasomlee Thank you unnie!!

[Hee Eun Kwon @HeeEunKwon_]

It's an honor to share this news! The support and encouragement that I received from the amazing Gulf scholars on the dissertation & book project have been truly humbling🙏

[AGAPS @AgapsOrg]

The winner of the 2023 AGAPS Gwenn Okruhlik Dissertation Award is Hee Eun Kwon, for "Performance of Cosmopolitanism: Temporary Migrants and their Sense of Belonging in Dubai." Congratulations!

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@rachel_e_fox Rachel, thank you so much!!

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@michel_estefan Thank you, Michel!!

[Hee Eun Kwon @HeeEunKwon_]

@BlancaArRamirez Thanks, hope you are well!

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@davidcookmartin Thank you so much, David!!

[Hee Eun Kwon @HeeEunKwon_]

@FitzGeraldUCSD Always grateful for your support!! Thank you so much, David!