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Rights Claiming in South Korea

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Editors:
Celeste L. Arrington, George Washington University, Washington DC
Patricia Goedde, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul

Patricia Goedde, Celeste L. Arrington, Jisoo M. Kim, Sungyun Lim, Eunkyung Kim, Hun Joon Kim, Soo-Young Hwang, Hannes B. Mosler, Yoonkyung Lee, JaeWon Kim, Ju Hui Judy Han, Jihye Kim, Sung Soo Hong, Erin Aeran Chung, Sheena Chestnut Greitens

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Date Published: May 2021
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format: Hardback
isbn: 9781108841337

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Although rights-based claims are diversifying and opportunities and resources for claims-making have improved, obtaining rights protections and catalysing social change in South Korea remain challenging processes. This volume examines how different groups in South Korea have defined and articulated grievances and mobilized to remedy them. It explores developments in the institutional contexts within which rights claiming occurs and in the sources of support available for utilizing different claims-making channels. Drawing on scores of original interviews, readings of court rulings and statutes, primary archival and digital sources, and interpretive analysis of news media coverage in Korean, this volume illuminates rights in action. The chapters uncover conflicts over contending rights claims, expose disparities between theory and practice in the law, trace interconnections among rights-based movements, and map emerging trends in the use of rights language. Case studies examine the rights of women, workers, people with disabilities, migrants, and sexual minorities.
- Provides comparative and detailed insights into how and when rights claiming works in Korea
- Includes research from multiple disciplines and about diverse groups of claimants
- Will appeal to readers in political science, sociology, law, anthropology, history, and other social sciences
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'Rights Claiming in South Korea is a rich, timely, and theoretically significant contribution to the sociolegal scholarship on rights mobilization. With an elegant combination of historical and contemporary studies, the book offers not only an in-depth inquiry into how legal rights are constructed and contested in South Korea, but also a rigorous and insightful engagement with the comparative studies on rights mobilization in East Asia and beyond.' Sida Liu, University of Toronto
'Rights Claiming in South Korea offers a comprehensive account of the historical roots of rights, institutional formations, and contemporary contestation over rights. Bringing together a truly interdisciplinary group of scholars, the book illuminates how rights discourses and associated legal and political infrastructures have transformed citizenship and mobilization in Korea. This book will appeal to readers interested in law and society, social movements, minority rights, and politics in Korea and beyond.' Hae Yeon Choo, Associate Professor, University of Toronto
'In this insightful new volume, Celeste Arrington and Patricia Goedde lead a cross-disciplinary team of scholars to unpack how rights have been defined, mobilized, and contested by diverse groups in Korea from the nineteenth century to present. Rights Claiming in South Korea truly represents the best of interdisciplinary research and comes at a moment when the demand for rights on the streets and in the courts have never been greater.' Andrew Yeo, Professor of Politics and Director of Asian Studies, The Catholic University of America
'With this new volume in hand, we have a useful guide through which to observe and perhaps even stymie the troubling trajectory of extreme fragmentation and individualization, which are other facets of rights-claiming in South Korea that deserve our attention.' Todd A. Henry, Paciﬁc Affairs
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- Date Published: May 2021
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108841337
- length: 300 pages
- dimensions: 155 x 235 x 25 mm
- weight: 0.66kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction: rights in action Patricia Goedde and Celeste L. Arrington
Part I. Rights in Historical Perspective:
1. Legal disputes, women's legal voice, and petitioning rights in late Joseon Korea Jisoo M. Kim
2. Defying claims of legal incompetence: women's lawsuits over separate property rights in colonial Korea Sungyun Lim
3. 'Equal' second-class citizens: post-colonial democracy and women's rights in post-liberation South Korea Eunkyung Kim
Part II. Institutional Mechanisms for Rights Claiming:
4. A clash of claims: the diversity and effectiveness of rights claims around the Jeju 4.3 events Hun Joon Kim
5. Advancing human rights, advancing a nation: becoming a Seonjinguk via the national human rights commission of Korea Soo-Young Hwang
6. The constitutional court as a facilitator of fundamental rights claiming in Korea, 1988–2018 Hannes B. Mosler
7. Rights claiming through the courts: changing legal opportunity structures in South Korea Celeste L. Arrington
8. Public interest lawyering in South Korea: trends in institutional development Patricia Goedde
Part III. Mobilizing Rights for the marginalized:
9. From 'we are not machines, we are humans' to 'we are workers, we want to work': the changing notion of labour rights in Korea, the 1980s-the 2000s Yoonkyung Lee
10. From invisible beneficiaries to independent rights-holders: how the disability rights movement changed the law and Korean society JaeWon Kim
11. The politics of postponement and sexual minority rights in South Korea Ju Hui Judy Han
12. Discovering diversity: the anti-discrimination legislation movement in South Korea Jihye Kim and Sung Soo Hong
Part IV. Shaping Rights for New and Non-citizens:
13. The rights of non-citizenship: migrant rights and hierarchies in South Korea Erin Aeran Chung
14. Claiming citizenship: rights claiming and recognition for North Koreans entering South Korea Sheena Chestnut Greitens
Conclusion: findings and future directions Celeste L. Arrington and Patricia Goedde
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Editors
Celeste L. Arrington, George Washington University, Washington DC
Celeste L. Arrington is Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the George Washington University. She is the author of Accidental Activists: Victim Movements and Government Accountability in Japan and South Korea (Cornell, 2016) and articles in Comparative Political Studies, Law & Society Review, Journal of East Asian Studies and elsewhere.
Patricia Goedde, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul
Patricia Goedde is Professor at Sungkyunkwan University School of Law in South Korea, and a member of the Washington State Bar Association. She serves on the board of directors for the Korea Human Rights Foundation and is also a core faculty member of the SSK Human Rights Forum in Seoul.
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Patricia Goedde, Celeste L. Arrington, Jisoo M. Kim, Sungyun Lim, Eunkyung Kim, Hun Joon Kim, Soo-Young Hwang, Hannes B. Mosler, Yoonkyung Lee, JaeWon Kim, Ju Hui Judy Han, Jihye Kim, Sung Soo Hong, Erin Aeran Chung, Sheena Chestnut Greitens