Human rights and transnational democracy in South Korea / Ingu Hwang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hwang, Ingu, author.

Series:

Pennsylvania studies in human rights.

Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democratization--Korea (South).

Democratization.

Human rights movements--Korea (South).

Human rights movements.

Human rights advocacy--International cooperation.

Human rights advocacy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 pages)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2022]

Summary:

Drawing on previously unused or underutilized archival sources, Human Rights and Transnational Democracy in South Korea offers the first account of the historical intersection between South Korea's democratic transition and the global human rights boom in the 1970s.

Contents:

Introduction: The human rights turn : a transnational perspective on democratization movements in South Korea

Protest language : appropriating, translating, and transforming the language of human rights

Transpacific politics : emerging transnational human rights actions and counteractions

Washington : emerging epicenter for transnational human rights politics

The 1976 March 1 incident : a transnational human rights Issue and a US-ROK diplomatic quandary

People's protests : economic rights as human rights

Kwangju : democratic struggles and anti-americanism

Aftermath : human rights talk, activism, and politics in the 1980s democratic transition

Epilogue: Human rights in the post-democratization and global justice age.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Hwang, Ingu Human Rights and Transnational Democracy in South Korea

ISBN:

9780812298215

OCLC:

1298388641