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First Impressions

This text below was slightly abridged and translated into Korean for an article published in the Mosim Magazine No. 18. I have recently begun an EU funded project,1 in collaboration with Mosim and the University of Sussex, to spend 3 years researching Hansalim and its role in the cooperative food movement in South Korea. In this article I want to introduce myself and the project and share something of my initial perspective on the Hansalim movement and the Hansalim Manifesto.

February 8, 2022 Read
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Dr Jonathan Dolley

My role I am a Research Fellow at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex and a Fellow of the Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP). You can find a brief bio on the SSRP website. In 2021 I received a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellowship which is funding me to conduct full time research for three years with the first two spent in South Korea on secondment to the Mosim and Salim Research Center.

January 1, 2022 Read
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Dr Miseong Cho

Dr Miseong Cho is a senior researcher of Mosim & Salim Research Institute and a guest lecturer at Seoul National University. After spending many years working as an educator in alternative schools in Korea, she received her master’s degree with a research dissertation titled: “A qualitative case study on forming and learning process of a community for energy transition initiative.”(2016, SNU). Her doctoral thesis “Citizen participation and transformative learning in energy transition: the case of a zero energy housing complex" (2020, SNU).

January 1, 2022 Read
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Dr Yikyung Kim

Dr Yikyung Kim is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Academy of East Asian Studies, Sungkyunkwan University. Her primary research focuses on the history of the East Asian cooperative movement and the culture of reciprocity and solidarity, with a long-term historical perspective. Her research includes “The Formation and Development of the Korean Cooperative Movement under the Japanese Colonial Rule: Focus on Concepts, Participants, and Solidarity” (2022, Ph.

January 1, 2022 Read
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About the project

The Big Idea Multi-stakeholder cooperatives Multi-stakeholder cooperatives (MSC) (or solidarity cooperatives) are co-ops that include two or more stakeholder groups in ownership and governance of the organisation. In food and farming this usually means farmers and consumers, but can also include workers involved in other activities related to the food system (e.g. processing and distribution). This novel arrangement is aimed at overcoming the conflict of interest between producers and consumers inherent in a capitalist market-driven food system.

September 1, 2021 Read