Territorialization for differences as a social movement strategy : the case of ‘Femi-zone’ in the 2016 candlelight protest in South Korea

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-55
Author(s):  
Heejo Kwon ◽  
Jin-Tae Hwang,
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Movement Strategy

Taiwan's State and Social Movements Under the DPP Government, 2000–2004

2005 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 401-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming-sho Ho
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
Democratic Progressive Party ◽  
Opportunity Structure ◽  
Conservative Policy ◽  
Movement Strategy ◽  
Progressive Party

This article explores the evolution of social movement politics under the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government (2000–2004) by using the perspective of political opportunity structure. Recent “contentious politics” in Taiwan is analyzed in terms of four changing dimensions of the opportunity structure. First, the DPP government opens some policy channels, and social movement activists are given chances to work within the institution. Yet other features of the political landscape are less favorable to movement activists. Incumbent elites' political orientation shifts. As the economic recession sets in, there is a conservative policy turn. Political instability incurs widespread countermoblization to limit reform. Last, the Pan-Blue camp, now in opposition, devises its own social movement strategy. Some social movement issues gain political salience as a consequence of the intervention of the opposition parties, but its excessive opportunism also encourages the revolt of antireform forces. As a result of these countervailing factors, social movements have made only limited gains from the recent turnover of power.

scholarly journals REPRESENTASI PEREMPUAN DALAM VIDEO KLIP GIRLBAND KOREA (ANALISIS SEMIOTIKA VIDEO KLIP DALLA DALLA DARI GIRLBAND ITZY)

MEDIAKITA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Salma Zuhaira, Sukma Ari Ragil Putri
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Video Clip ◽  
Positive Energy ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Song Lyrics

Feminism is a social movement that demands justice and equal rights of women with men. Gender equality is still a matter of debate. One of them is in South Korea. Women who support feminism are considered to hate, do not need, and will feel their position is higher than men. This demand for equality covers the fields of economy, politics, social, lifestyle, culture and so on. This research was conducted with the aim of knowing how the representation of women displayed by Korean Girlband Itzy in their video clip entitled Dalla Dalla. Dalla-Dalla's video clip with the theme of women's freedom depicts the life movements of women who want freedom from the criticisms of others who consider them weak and discriminate. This video clip also shows them different from the others. Although in this video clip it is not clearly stated the relevance of feminism in it. Therefore, in order to get a detailed description of the issue of feminism and women in the video clip, the researcher uses John Fiske's semiotic theory with the main theory, namely The Codes of Television, to see that behind the video clips there are connotative and denotative representations. According to John Fiske's Semiotics, there are 3 levels, namely the level of reality, representation and ideology. So it is hoped that the representation of women in this video clip is clearly described. The results of the study show the meaning of signs at the level of reality, and representations indicate freedom, self-confidence, and personal existence. At the ideological level, it shows the existence of postmodern feminism. So at the level of signs and symbols related to the representation of post-modern feminism, namely creating new discourses or messages that are meaningful and provide positive energy to other women, so that they dare to fight oppression and discrimination. The song lyrics and narrative code in the video clip show several scenes that lead to on postmodern feminist symbols

Social Movements and Constitutionalism in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (S1) ◽  
pp. S51-S75
Author(s):  
Ngoc Son BUI
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Constitutional Change ◽  
Positive Account ◽  
Comparative Constitutional Law ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Full Consideration

AbstractThis article considers whether the academic inquiry of comparative constitutionalism in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan may be further developed by a full consideration of the relevance of social movements. Integrating social movement theories into comparative constitutional law, this article argues that a more nuanced positive account of the creation and consolidation of constitutionalism in these East Asian polities must be situated within the engagement of social movements in discursive venues for formal and informal constitutional change.

Introduction: Education and the Long March through the Institutions

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Rebecca Tarlau
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Movement Strategy ◽  
Social Visions ◽  
State Relations ◽  
Professional Degrees ◽  
Internal Capacity

The Introduction presents the basic goals of the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement’s agrarian reform struggle and explains how its educational proposal is part and parcel of achieving those goals. Then it outlines the three arguments of this book: engaging formal institutions can contribute to the internal capacity of movements; combining contentious and institutional tactics is an effective movement strategy; and the government’s political orientation, the state’s capacity for educational governance, and a social movement’s own infrastructure condition the possibilities for institutional change. The chapter argues for a Gramscian perspective on social movement–state relations, which views public institutions as an ambiguous sphere that protects the state from attack and is also an arena for resistance. Through the contentious co-governance of public education, movements can integrate more youth and women into the movement, equip movement leaders with professional degrees, and allow activists to prefigure their social visions.

scholarly journals Legal Activism for Ensuring Environmental Justice

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 1-44
Author(s):  
Saiful Karim ◽  
Okechukwu Benjamin Vincents ◽  
Mia Mahmudur Rahim
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
International Law ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Right To Life ◽  
Civil Society Organisations ◽  
Legal Activism ◽  
Movement Strategy ◽  
The Right

AbstractThis article reviews some of the roles environmental lawyers have played in ensuring environmental justice in Bangladesh. It leans on law and social movement theories to explicate the choice (and ensuing success) of litigation as a movement strategy in Bangladesh. The activists successfully moved the courts to read the right to a decent environment into the fundamental right to life, and this has had the far-reaching effect ofconstituting a basis forstanding forthe activists and other civil society organisations. The activists have also sought to introduce emerging international law principles into the jurisprudence of the courts. These achievements notwithstanding, the paper notes that litigation is not a sustainable way to institute enduring environmental protection in any jurisdiction and recommends the utilisation of the reputation and recognition gained through litigation to deploy or encourage more sustainable strategies.

scholarly journals Prefigurative Politics and Social Movement Strategy: The Roles of Prefiguration in the Reproduction, Mobilisation and Coordination of Movements

2020 ◽  
pp. 003232172093604
Author(s):  
Luke Yates
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
New Social Movements ◽  
Movement Strategy ◽  
Prefigurative Politics ◽  
The 1960S

Recent work historicises and theoretically refines the concept of prefigurative politics. Yet disagreements over the question of whether or how it is politically effective remain. What roles does prefiguration play in strategies of transformation, and what implications does it have for understandings of strategy? The article begins to answer this question by tracking the concept’s use, from discussions of left strategy in the 1960s, a qualifier of new social movements in the 1980s–1990s, its application to protest events in the 2000s, to its contemporary proliferation of meanings. This contextualises reflections on the changing arguments about the roles of prefiguration in social movement strategy. Based on literature about strategy, three essential categories of applied movement strategy are identified: reproduction, mobilisation and coordination. Prefigurative dynamics are part of all three, showing that the reproduction of movements is strategically significant, while the coordination of movements can take various ‘prefigurative’ forms.

Reunification Issues and Civil Society in South Korea: The Debates and Social Movement for Reunification during the April Revolution Period, 1960–1961

2002 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 1237-1257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seuk-Ryule Hong
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Korean People ◽  
North And South

Research into the reunification of Korea has focused on the governmental policies of North and South Korea, as well as the policies of countries involved with them. The views expressed within Korean civil society about reunification have not been given much consideration. It is difficult, therefore, to gauge what the Korean people themselves think of reunification and how opinions differ among discrete sociopolitical groups in Korea, such as the conservatives, liberals, and radicals.

Appropriating Liberation

2003 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Kew
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Animal Liberation ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Movement Strategy ◽  
The Media

AbstractMedia and nonhuman animal liberation is an under-researched area in the United Kingdom. If the most appropriate metaphor describing the media/social movement relationship is "dance," then largely the media and animal liberation are dancing in the dark of neglect. Drawing upon different approaches to media and offering some notes toward animal liberation media studies, this article explores how, by engaging with the "established terms of the problematic at play," animal liberationists and their claims are appropriated by speciesist ideology through exclusion and confusing and redefining maneuvers. A contextual analysis of its typical texts raises questions of the public interest role, due impartiality of media and, implicitly, of movement strategy.

scholarly journals ‘Waving the banana’ at capitalism: Political theater and social movement strategy among New York’s ‘freegan’ dumpster divers

Ethnography ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex V. Barnard
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Political Theater ◽  
Movement Theory ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Movement Strategy ◽  
Dumpster Diving ◽  
New Social Movement ◽  
Movement Organizations ◽  
New Social Movement Theory

This article presents an ethnographic study of ‘freegans’, individuals who use behaviors like dumpster diving for discarded food and voluntary unemployment to protest against environmental degradation and capitalism. While freegans often present their ideology as a totalizing lifestyle which impacts all aspects of their lives, in practice, freegans emphasize what would seem to be the most repellant aspect of their movement: eating wasted food. New Social Movement (NSM) theory would suggest that behaviors like dumpster diving are intended to assert difference and an alternative identity, rather than make more traditional social movement claims. Through the lens of social dramaturgy, I engage with New Social Movement theory by arguing that unconventional tactics like dumpster diving can also have strategic components, serving to project a favorable image of movement organizations, recruit new participants, and achieve a positive portrayal in the mainstream media.

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