scholarly journals Labor Rights Training at HP Supplier Factories in China

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Chan
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Labor Rights ◽  
Industrial Democracy ◽  
Beijing China

Jenny Chan. 2012. “Labor Rights Training at HP Supplier Factories in China.” Pp. 314-27 in Industrial Democracy in China: With Additional Studies on Germany, South-Korea and Vietnam, edited by Rudolf Traub-Merz and Kinglun Ngok. Beijing: China Social Sciences Press.

Digital humanities and new directions in South Korea

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 772-790
Author(s):  
Jisu Lee ◽  
Hye-Eun Lee
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Western World ◽  
Global Networks ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Status ◽  
Late Start

Abstract The course of reprocessing knowledge and information about social sciences and humanities using digital technology is taking root as a new field of academia called the ‘digital humanities’ (DH). While the social sciences and humanities in South Korea have shown a marked reluctance toward the integration of digital technology, the perception of its necessity as a new methodology for developing these fields in the digital age is growing. Until recently, analytical studies on the status and contents of DH were conducted on data from the western world. Despite their late start, however, Asian countries have begun conducting research on DH with enthusiasm. In order for DH to be properly established in each country, it is essential to set the direction by investigating the pre-requisites for DH studies in that country, as well as the current and future demands. As such, this study discusses the current status and issues regarding DH in South Korea by analyzing the trends of DH research published in South Korea, as well as by examining the status and perception of DH among actual scholars. Based on this study’s findings, we present strategies for improving education programs on DH in South Korea and promulgate the necessity of using DH methodologies in the study of social sciences and humanities to develop global networks and academic communication.

Artists or Slave Laborers? Performing Uncapturability in Burkinabe Performers’ Labor Rights Struggle in South Korea

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-339
Author(s):  
Soo Ryon Yoon
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Performance Studies ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Original Art ◽  
Migrant Labor ◽  
Labor Rights ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Labor Practices ◽  
Monetary Compensation

This article traces eight performers from Burkina Faso, who in 2014 protested unfair labor practices at the Africa Museum of Original Art in South Korea, where they had been hired to perform. In the process, they demonstrated political and artistic endeavors in live concerts and dance workshops to reclaim both their monetary compensation and their artists’ status. Nevertheless, public and media discourse that followed this nationwide news—no matter how sympathetic—tended to treat the artists’ experiences as merely a failed Korean dream. Using performance studies methodologies and ethnographic methods, this article uses the terms performance and performativity more capaciously to include a range of embodied acts. With this, the article argues that framing the artists’ experiences within the narrative confines of struggling migrant workers fails to capture the complex, often contradictory relationship that they have with acts of performing beyond the existing categories of migrant labor. Furthermore, the sympathetic discourse capitalizes on hypervisibility of blackness, through which the artists’ suffering becomes a spectacle. This article suggests consideration of the concept of uncapturability—the embodiment of which exposes failures of a nationalist and racialized language—as well as existing theoretical frameworks mobilized to understand the interiority of performance and the artists’ work.

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1986 ◽  
Vol 8 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 32-32
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
State University ◽  
Oregon State University ◽  
Beijing China

Professor Liu Xingwu of the Institute of Nationality Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China was made an Honorary Fellow of SfAA during the 1986 annual meeting in Reno. He returned to China in September following a year at Oregon State University as visiting Fulbright professor in the Anthropology Department.

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