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Threats or Leverage for Korean Civil Society in Contesting Globalization

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This chapter examines the ways in which newly emerging threats or opportunities on multiple levels impact on national social movements. By comparing strategy shifts between environmental and human rights movements in Korea since the collapse of the military dictatorship in 1987, we find that international factors such as intergovernmental organizations, neoliberalism, and the Internet have collaboratively impacted on local activism in Korea. Paradoxically, political threats at both national and international levels could offer opportunities for local groups to form alliances around, across, and even beyond national borders. In contrast to human rights groups, environmental groups that develop transnational ties and domestic institutional channels are more likely to change from an insider strategy to an outsider one, and vice versa.

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  1. Asia Center and Deapartment of Sociology, Seoul National University, 599 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 151-746, Korea

    Hyun-Chin Lim

  2. Olympic Apartment 318-1107, Oryoon-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul, 138-788, Korea

    Hyun-Chin Lim

  3. Asia Center, Seoul National University, 599 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 151-746, Korea

    Suk-Ki Kong

  4. Mookungwha Kyung-nam APT. 308-1001, Shinchon-dong, Dongan-gu Kyungki-do, 431-738, Korea

    Suk-Ki Kong

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  1. Inst. f. Soziologie, Univ. Heidelberg, Bergheimer Str. 58, Heidelberg, 69115, Germany

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  2. Department of Sociology, Sungkyunkwan University, Jongro-ku, Myungryun-dong, Seoul, 110-745, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Jonghoe Yang

  3. Debate Commission, National Election Broadcasting, Gwanak-gu, Backjae-gil 17, Seoul, 151-800, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Jong-Hee Lee

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Lim, HC., Kong, SK. (2013). Threats or Leverage for Korean Civil Society in Contesting Globalization. In: Pohlmann, M., Yang, J., Lee, JH. (eds) Citizenship and Migration in the Era of Globalization. Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19739-0_3

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