Risk Politics and Environmental Governance.

Selected publications.

• 2024.  Kim, Eun-Sung. "The birth of digital epidemiology in South Korea," East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal. 18(1): 22-46 (Link)

• 2023. Kim, Eun-sung and Ji-bum Chung. "Assembling good citizenship under Korean COVID-19 surveillance," Critical Policy Studies. 17(1): 123-141. (Link)  

• 2022. Ji-Bum Chung, Byeong Je Kim, Eun-Sung Kim, "Mask-wearing behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic in Korea: The role of individualism in a collectivistic country," International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 82, 103355. (Link) 

• 2021. Dong-hyeon Im, Ji-Bum Chung, Eun-Sung Kim, Ji-Won Moon. "Public perception of geothermal power plant in Korea following Pohang Earthquake: A social representation theory study," Public Understanding of Science. 36(6): 724-739. (Link)

• 2020. Kim, Eun-sung. "Deep learning and principal-agent problems of algorithmic governance: the new materialism perspective," Technology in Society, 63, 101378. (Link)

• 2018. Chung, Ji-bum and Kim, Eun-sung. "Public perception of energy transition in Korea: Nuclear power, climate change, and party preference," Energy Policy. 116: 137-144. (Link)

• 2016. Kim, Eun-sung. "The politics of climate change policy design in Korea," Environmental Politics. 25(3): 454-474. (Link)

• 2015. Kim, Eun-sung. "The construction of scientific uncertainty and evidentiary hierarchy in the Camp Carroll controversy," Journal of Risk Research. 18(10) : 1259-1279. (Link)

• 2015. Kim, Eun-sung, "Governance struggles in the case of Camp Carroll Conflict,"  Policy Studies. 36(4): 399-416. (Link)

• 2014. Kim, Eun-sung. "Technocratic precautionary principle: Korean risk governance of genetically modified organisms," New Genetics and Society. 33(2): 204-224. (Link)

• 2014. Kim, Eun-sung. “How did enterprise risk management first appear in the Korean public sector?,” Journal of Risk Research, 17(2): 263-279. (Link)

• 2014. Kim, Eun-sung. "Imagining future Korean carbon markets: Co-production of carbon markets, product markets, and the government," Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning. 16(4):459-477.  (Link)

• 2012. Kim, Eun-sung. “Technocratic precautionary principle: Korean risk governance of mad cow disease,” Journal of Risk Research. 15(9): 1075-1100.  (Link)

• 2008. Kim, Eun-sung. “Chemical sunset: Technological inflexibility and designing an intelligent precautionary ‘polluter pays’ principle,” Science, Technology, and Human Values. 33(4): 459-479. (Link)

Korean Sensescape and Material Culture

Selected publications

• 2021. Kim, Eun-sung and Ji-bum Chung. "Korean mothers’ morality in the wake of COVID-19 contact tracing surveillance," Social Science and Medicine. 270, 113673. (Link)

• 2019. Kim, Eun-sung and Ji-bum Chung, "The memory of place disruption, senses, and local opposition to Korean wind farms," Energy Policy. 131: 43-52. (Link)

• 2018.  Kim, Eun-sung, Ji-bum Chung, and Yongseok Seo, "Korean traditional beliefs and renewable energy transitions: Pungsu, shamanism, and the local perception of wind turbines," Energy Research and Social Science. 46: 262-273. (Link)

• 2017. Kim, Eun-sung. "Senses and artifacts in market transactions: The Korean case of agricultural produce auctions," Journal of Cultural Economy. 10(6): 524-540. (Link)

• 2017. Kim, Eun-sung. "The material culture of Korean social movements," Journal of Material Culture. 22(2): 194-215. (Link)

• 2016. Kim, Eun-sung. "Sound and the Korean public: Sonic citizenship in the governance of apartment floor noise conflicts," Science as Culture. 26(4): 538-559. (Link)

• 2016. Kim, Eun-sung. "The sensory power of cameras and noise meters for protest surveillance in South Korea," Social Studies of Science. 46(3): 396-416. (Link)

R&D Policy, Bioethics, and History

Selected publications

• 2023, Kim, Eun-sung, Yoehan Oh, Gi Woong Yun, "Sociotechnical challenges to the technological accuracy of computer vision: The new materialism perspective," Technology in  Society. 75. 102388.  (Link).

• 2018. Kim, Eun-sung. "Sociotechnical imaginaries and the globalization of converging technology policy: Technological developmentalism in South Korea," Science as Culture. 27(2): 175-197. (Link)

• 2008. Kim, Eun-sung. “Heterogeneous assemblages of bioethics and science: The ‘pre-embryo’ debate in America, ” New Genetics and Society, 27(4): 323-337. (Link)

• 2008. Kim, Eun-sung. “Directed evolution: A historical exploration Into an evolutionary experimental system of nanobiotechnology, 1965-2006,” Minerva: Review of Science, Learning, and Policy, 46(4): 463-484. (Link)