Overview
- Rectifies misconstrued truths
- Rebukes politicization about comfort women
- Revisits the meaning of victims’ testimonies and memories
Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies on Human Rights in Asia (PMSHRA)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Victims, Stories, and Transformations
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Ways of Memory, Remembrance, and Healing
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Global Actors, Legal Frames, and Contested Memories
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Korean “Comfort Women’s” Testimonies”
- Comfort Women Issue in the United States
- Japanese Military Sexual Slavery
- Storytelling and the Collective Memory
- Comfort Women Films
- Korea-Japan Relations
- Social media and the memory of comfort women
- Political Disobedience, Healing, and Resilience
- United Nations and “Comfort Women”
- South Korean Policy on Japanese Military Sexual Slavery
- North Korean Policy on Japanese Military Sexual Slavery
About this book
This book provides a space for victims’ testimonies and memories, engages with their experiences, reflects upon the redress movement, and evaluates policies related to Korean comfort women as victims and survivors from the international, domestic, and bilateral realms. Collectively, this edited volume aims to further diversify the scholarship on comfort women, contribute to the existing literature on social movements related to comfort women and other related studies, and, in doing so, challenge the politicization of comfort women. With this objective, the book presents scholarship from interdisciplinary fields that revisit the meaning of victims’ testimonies, memories, and remembrance, social movement efforts on comfort women, and the related role of government, governance, and society by reflecting on the truths about the historical past. In so doing, it initiates new conversations among political scientists, sociologists, historians, and cultural and literary scholars. What do victims’ testimonies reveal about new ways of imagining historical memory of Korean comfort women? How are memories of comfort women and their experiences remembered in social movements, literature, and cultural practices? Where is the place of comfort women’s experiences in politics, diplomacy, and global affairs? These are some of the questions that guide the contributions to this edited volume, which seek to establish new ways of solidarity with comfort women.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Ñusta Carranza Ko is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Baltimore. She is the author of Truth, Justice, Reparations in Peru, Uruguay, and South Korea: The Clash of Advocacy and Politics (2021), co-author of Theories of International Relations and the Game of Thrones (2019), and has also published several articles and chapters in memory and genocide studies. Her research focuses on transitional justice in Latin America and Asia, Indigenous peoples’ rights in Peru, and historical women’s rights violations in Korea (i.e., the case of comfort women). She is of Indigenous (Quechua-speaking peoples from the Northern Andes of Peru) and Korean descent.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Ways of Solidarity with Korean Comfort Women
Book Subtitle: Comfort Women and What Remains
Editors: Ñusta Carranza Ko
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Studies on Human Rights in Asia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1794-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-1793-8Published: 04 June 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-1796-9Due: 05 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-1794-5Published: 03 June 2023
Series ISSN: 2752-4310
Series E-ISSN: 2752-4329
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 279
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Science, Human Rights, Asian Politics