Introduction: The human rights turn : a transnational perspective on democratization movements in South Korea -- Protest language : appropriating, translating, and transforming the language of human rights -- Transpacific politics : emerging transnational human rights actions and counteractions -- Washington : emerging epicenter for transnational human rights politics -- The 1976 March 1 incident : a transnational human rights Issue and a US-ROK diplomatic quandary -- People's protests : economic rights as human rights -- Kwangju : democratic struggles and anti-americanism -- Aftermath : human rights talk, activism, and politics in the 1980s democratic transition -- Epilogue: Human rights in the post-democratization and global justice age
Summary
Drawing on previously unused or underutilized archival sources, Human Rights and Transnational Democracy in South Korea offers the first account of the historical intersection between South Korea's democratic transition and the global human rights boom in the 1970s
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter platform, viewed September 14, 2022)
