Rights Claiming in South Korea

Herausgeber: Arrington, Celeste L.; Goedde, Patricia

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Produktbeschreibung

An analysis of rights-based activism in South Korea, including case studies of women, workers, disabled persons, migrants, and sexual minorities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 675g
• ISBN-13: 9781108841337
• ISBN-10: 1108841333
• Artikelnr.: 61264015

Inhaltsangabe

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; Index.