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Accidental activists : victim movements and government accountability in Japan and South Korea / Celeste L. Arrington.
LIBRA JQ1681 .A75 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arrington, Celeste L., 1980- author.
- Series:
- Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political participation--Japan.
- Political participation.
- Victims.
- Japan.
- Political participation--Korea (South).
- Korea (South).
- Government liability--Japan.
- Government liability.
- Government liability--Korea (South).
- Victims--Political activity--Japan.
- Victims--Political activity--Korea (South).
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 234 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Victimhood and government accountability
- 1. Explaining redress outcomes
- 2. Constructing victimhood and villainy in Japan and Korea
- 3. Hansesn's disease survivors' rights
- 4. The politics of hepatitis C-tainted blood products
- 5. The North Korean abductions and abductee families' activism
- Conclusion: The politics of redress.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-222) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801453762
- 0801453763
- OCLC:
- 919068334
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