Affective Protest Symbols

Public Dissent in the Mass Commemoration of the Sewŏl Ferry’s Victims in Seoul

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7535237
AutoresLiora Sarfati (0000-0002-4212-5835, Tel Aviv University, autor de correspondencia), Bora Chung (0009-0005-0626-9072, Yonsei University)
Año2018
Volumen42
Número4
Páginas565-585
Fecha de publicación2018-09-20
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAsian Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1035-7823 • E-ISSN: 1467-8403
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10357823.2018.1516732
OpenAlexW2890998779
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas29

Symbols used in the Sewŏl protests in downtown Seoul from 2014 onwards proved effective in soliciting public engagement for three years. After the sinking of the Sewŏl ferry that took 304 lives, most of them high school students, objects such as yellow ribbons gained iconic status as signifiers of the demand to investigate the ferry’s sinking and honour the memory of the victims. New visual indexes that created and articulated this emotionally laden discourse formed a common visual language of grief and anger towards the Korean authorities. This ethnography-based article explores the development of the protest’s affective aestheticism, its main agents and semiotics, and how it produced affect, which had strong cultural, social and emotional impacts. In 2016, the Sewŏl movement became the core of larger protests against the ruling elites

Anger · Dissent · Downtown · Honour · Linguistics · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Semiotics · Social semiotics · Sociology · Spectacle · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology