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Protest dialectics : state repression and South Korea's democracy movement, 1970-1979 / Paul Y. Chang.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780804794305
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HN730 .P768 2015
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Contents:
The making of the authoritarian state -- Consolidating authoritarianism -- The rise and fall of the student movement -- The emergence of Christian activism -- The politicization of journalists and lawyers -- Tactical adaptation and the rise of human rights -- Repression and the formation of alliances -- Conclusion : the legacy of the 1970s democracy movement.
Subject: 1970s South Korea is characterized by many as the ""dark age for democracy."" Most scholarship on South Korea's democracy movement and civil society has focused on the ""student revolution"" in 1960 and the large protest cycles in the 1980s which were followed by Korea's transition to democracy in 1987. But in his groundbreaking work of political and social history of 1970s South Korea, Paul Chang highlights the importance of understanding the emergence and evolution of the democracy movement in this oft-ignored decade. Protest Dialectics journeys back to 1970s South Korea and provides readers.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : protest dialectics and South Korea's democracy movement -- The making of the authoritarian state -- Consolidating authoritarianism -- The rise and fall of the student movement -- The emergence of Christian activism -- The politicization of journalists and lawyers -- Tactical adaptation and the rise of human rights -- Repression and the formation of alliances -- Conclusion : the legacy of the 1970s democracy movement.

1970s South Korea is characterized by many as the ""dark age for democracy."" Most scholarship on South Korea's democracy movement and civil society has focused on the ""student revolution"" in 1960 and the large protest cycles in the 1980s which were followed by Korea's transition to democracy in 1987. But in his groundbreaking work of political and social history of 1970s South Korea, Paul Chang highlights the importance of understanding the emergence and evolution of the democracy movement in this oft-ignored decade. Protest Dialectics journeys back to 1970s South Korea and provides readers.

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