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This study is informed by the theorizing prompted by recent work on state rescaling. Iaim to examine the interaction between the top-down and bottom-up rescaling processesthat took place in the South Korean developmental state during the late 1960s and early1970s. I focus on a regionalism that both built a regional scale and influenced thehegemonic crisis of the ruling regime. Specifically, the study illustrates the features ofstate space that were shaped during the developmental era and the factors that allowstate space to be stable and coherent. By dealing with these questions, I provide apossible interpretation of why and how regionalism was a crucial factor in thehegemonic crisis of the 1960s and generated a rescaling of state space. What makes thisstudy significant is not merely the fact that this space is located in East Asia. It couldalso, more generally, open up an alternative perspective on state rescaling during theearly stages of state-led industrialization.
