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Revisiting minjung : new perspectives on the cultural history of 1980s South Korea
\"An epoch-marking alliance of laborers, students, dissident intellectuals, and ordinary citizens was at the heart of South Korea's transformation from a dictatorship into a vibrant democracy during the 1980s. Collectively known as the minjung (\"the people\"), these agents of Korean democratization historically carved out an expanded role for civil society in the country's politics. In Revisiting Minjung, some of the foremost experts in 1980s Korean history, literature, film, art, and music provide new insights into one of the most crucial decades in South Korean history. Drawing from the theoretical perspectives of transnationalism, post-Marxist studies, intersectional feminism, popular culture studies, and more, the volume demonstrates how an era that is often associated with radical politics was, in effect, the catalyst for the subsequent flourishing of democratic and liberal values in South Korea. Revisiting Minjung brings new themes, new subjectivities, and new theoretical perspectives to the study of the rich ecosystem of 1980s Korean culture. Treated here is a wide array of topics, including the origins of minjung ideology, its critique by the right wing, minjung art and music, workers' literary culture, women writers and the resurgence of feminism, erotic cinema, science fiction, transnational political travels, and the representations of race and queerness in 1980s popular culture. The book thus details the origins and development of some of the movements that shape cultural life in South Korea today, and it does so through analyses that engage some of the most pressing debates in current scholarship in Korea and abroad\"-- Provided by publisher.
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South Korean civil movement organisations
This highly engaging book invites the reader to learn about how South Korean activists, intellectuals and various reformers approach the role of civil society in a post-colonial, post-Cold War, post-dictatorship, and post-IMF neoliberal democracy. In particular, it provides a detailed description of civil movement organisations in Seoul leading up to, during and after the Roh Moo Hyun era (2003–8). The book engages the entangled hopes, crises and pragmatic transitions that animated this era in South Korean politics and connects it with larger debates in anthropology, sociology, law and politics from around the world. Ultimately, the book contributes to growing areas of research, advocacy and general interest in pragmatism, ethnography, hope and crisis.
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The Making of Minjung
In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history of the minjung (\"common people's\") movement in South Korea, Namhee Lee shows how the movement arose in the 1970s and 1980s in response to the repressive authoritarian regime and grew out of a widespread sense that the nation's \"failed history\" left Korean identity profoundly incomplete.
The Making of Minjungcaptures the movement in its many dimensions, presenting its intellectual trajectory as a discourse and its impact as a political movement, as well as raising questions about how intellectuals represented the minjung. Lee's portrait is based on a wide range of sources: underground pamphlets, diaries, court documents, contemporary newspaper reports, and interviews with participants. Thousands of students and intellectuals left universities during this period and became factory workers, forging an intellectual-labor alliance perhaps unique in world history. At the same time, minjung cultural activists reinvigorated traditional folk theater, created a new \"minjung literature,\" and influenced religious practices and academic disciplines.
In its transformative scope, the minjung phenomenon is comparable to better-known contemporaneous movements in South Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. Understanding the minjung movement is essential to understanding South Korea's recent resistance to U.S. influence. Along with its well-known economic transformation, South Korea has also had a profound social and political transformation. The minjung movement drove this transformation, and this book tells its story comprehensively and critically.
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Protest politics and the democratization of South Korea : strategies and roles of women
This book is about protest politics and social movements led by a group of women, the \"Mothers,\" who were inadvertently drawn into South Korea's democratization movement from the 1970s to the 2000s. The Mothers were female family members of political dissidents of varying backgrounds and ages—college students, political and religious leaders, writers, and factory workers. Women who initially had very little in common developed a bond as the days of their families' detentions accumulated and their ordeals continued. This led them to form a quasi-organization prayer meeting group in the 1970s, which eventually developed into permanent Mothers' organizations in the mid-1980s.
The Mothers in this book include both the early- and late-comers to the movement, as the membership has undergone many changes since its inception in the 1970s. While the individual Mothers are the primary focus, this book explores beyond their individual concerns and activities. It discusses various methods the individual Mothers employed to promote their causes and attempts to study how the activities of the organizations founded by the inexperienced Mothers have affected the process of Korea's democratization and how they remain active decades later.
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Protest Dialectics
1970s South Korea is characterized by many as the \"dark age for democracy.\" Most scholarship on South Korea's democracy movement and civil society has focused on the \"student revolution\" in 1960 and the large protest cycles in the 1980s which were followed by Korea's transition to democracy in 1987. But in his groundbreaking work of political and social history of 1970s South Korea, Paul Chang highlights the importance of understanding the emergence and evolution of the democracy movement in this oft-ignored decade.
Protest Dialectics journeys back to 1970s South Korea and provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the numerous events in the 1970s that laid the groundwork for the 1980s democracy movement and the formation of civil society today. Chang shows how the narrative of the 1970s as democracy's \"dark age\" obfuscates the important material and discursive developments that became the foundations for the movement in the 1980s which, in turn, paved the way for the institutionalization of civil society after transition in 1987. To correct for these oversights in the literature and to better understand the origins of South Korea's vibrant social movement sector this book presents a comprehensive analysis of the emergence and evolution of the democracy movement in the 1970s.
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Women in the Sky
Women in the Sky examines
Korean women factory workers' century-long activism, from the 1920s
to the present, with a focus on gender politics both in the labor
movement and in the larger society. It highlights several
key moments in colonial and postcolonial Korean history when
factory women commanded the attention of the wider public,
including the early-1930s rubber shoe workers' general strike in
Pyongyang, the early-1950s textile workers' struggle in South
Korea, the 1970s democratic union movement led by female factory
workers, and women workers' activism against neoliberal
restructuring in recent decades.
Hwasook Nam asks why women workers in South Korea have been
relegated to the periphery in activist and mainstream narratives
despite a century of persistent militant struggle and indisputable
contributions to the labor movement and successful democracy
movement. Women in the Sky opens and closes with stories
of high-altitude sit-ins-a phenomenon unique to South
Korea-beginning with the rubber shoe worker Kang Churyong's sit-in
in 1931 and ending with numerous others in today's South Korean
labor movement, including that of Kim Jin-Sook.
In Women in the Sky , Nam seeks to understand and
rectify the vast gap between the crucial roles women industrial
workers played in the process of Korea's modernization and their
relative invisibility as key players in social and historical
narratives. By using gender and class as analytical categories, Nam
presents a comprehensive study and rethinking of the
twentieth-century nation-building history of Korea through the lens
of female industrial worker activism.
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Social Movements and the Geographies of Economic Activities in South Korea
This chapter contains sections titled:
Introduction: Social Movements and Economic Geographies
Democratization Movements and Regulatory Changes of the Korean Developmental State
Neoliberal Reforms, Social Movements, and Spatially Selective Liberalization
Labor Movements and Greenfi eld Locations of the Korean Auto Industry
Concluding Remarks
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