C J Kim
Biographic Data
| ID | 6914 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C J Kim |
| GIVEN NAMES | C J |
| FAMILY NAME | Kim |
| SIGNATURE | KIM C J |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1382-3626 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Political polarization and the energy policy paradox
Polarization surrounding nuclear power has intensified in Korea following the 2011 Fukushima disaster. In 2017, President Moon Jae-in implemented an energy policy that shifted the focus from nuclear to renewable energy, a departure from previous governments’ approaches. Additionally, Moon administration supported various participatory governance initiatives to minimize social conflicts, including participatory deliberative polls concerning the co…
Differences between the Effects of Direct and Indirect Earthquake Experiences on Disaster Preparedness
This study aims to examine the relationship between earthquake experience and preparedness over time, specifically investigating the statistical associations between direct and indirect experiences of infrequent and moderate earthquakes and various preparedness measures. Using survey data from 2018 to 2020, this study identified the relationship between direct/indirect experiences and compliance with emergency preparedness measures, seismic reinf…
The rhetoric of norm evasion and its social psychological underpinnings
The growing focus on the agency of norm violators has led to new insights on various rhetorical strategies that states accused of norm violation deploy. However, few studies have simultaneously examined both specific rhetorical devices that enable norm evasion and their social psychological underpinnings. Building on International Relations (IR) research on norm evasion and social psychological research on in-group wrongdoings, this paper concept…
Colonial Redress and the Unintended Consequences of Global Opportunities
Research shows that the rise of political and discursive opportunities enabled by the diffusion of progressive global norms has empowered many aggrieved local actors. Drawing on colonial victims’ transnational redress movements, I add to this literature in two ways. First, rejecting the common association between global opportunities and local movement facilitation and success, I make a counterintuitive argument that the early availability of opp…
Status Hierarchies and Stigma Shifting in International Relations
How do states as social actors cope with stigma-induced status anxiety? I propose the concept of “stigma shifting” as a way in which status-anxious states overcompensate for their stigma-induced inferiority and reaffirm their place in the world: by seeking identification with higher-status states and differentiation from lower-status states. In identifying with the desired group of states, stigmatized states engage in approval-seeking behavior an…
Lost Paradise
In the history of Soviet kolkhoz (collective-farm) research, the 'advanced kolkhoz (millionaire) phenomenon' remains almost unexplored, although it was a notable social-economic phenomenon.Members of the Korean advanced kolkhozes in Central Asia, which operated since the late 1930s to the 1980s, at first adapted to the kolkhoz system through hard work, but later became very active in creating social-cultural institutions within the kolkhoz system…
A Conversation with Claudia Junghyun Kim, author of Base Towns
Rabson discusses the new book, Base Towns: Local Contestation of the U.S. Military in Korea and Japan with the author, Claudia Junghyun Kim, who traces contentious politics surrounding twenty U.S. military bases across Japan and Korea—two of the largest U.S. base hosts in the world. Kim's book focuses on the municipalities hosting these bases and differing levels of community acceptance and resistance over time. The following excerpt from the boo…
Knowledge production through legal mobilization
There is growing interest in social movement actors as knowledge producers, but many movements have limited ability to access or produce credible, authoritative information. Building on sociolegal scholarship and social movement studies, we show how movements can overcome knowledge gaps they have via-à-vis state authorities and contribute to public knowledge through institutional tactics. We argue that features of the process of legal mobilizatio…
Transnational Advocacy, Norm Regress, and Foreign Compliance Constituencies
The literature at the intersection of global norms and transnational advocacy typically equates target states’ foreign constituencies with those exerting normative pressure on the states in question on behalf of their domestic constituencies. Another type of foreign constituency remains undertheorized: foreign nationals as rights claimants who make normative claims against target states, such as victims of colonization seeking redress or refugees…
Military alliances as a stabilising force
Two broad and seemingly contradictory perspectives exist on U.S. alliances with South Korea and Taiwan. One focuses on how Washington carefully designed the alliances to rein in its overly warlike junior partners, while the other focuses on the surprisingly big influence of Seoul and Taipei that belied the power asymmetry in their relationships with Washington. This paper shows the influence of small allies is not a static feature of asymmetrical…
Dugong v. Rumsfeld
Two high-profile social movements against the construction of military bases in Jeju, South Korea, and Okinawa, Japan, represent a contest between anti-militarist ecological security and traditional military security. At the heart of these movements, which went from a local phenomenon to a transnational cause célèbre, are two iconic movement symbols: Gureombi, a unique lava rock formation, and the dugong, an endangered marine mammal. By analyzing…
Scope Mismatch
While scholars agree that frame bridging contributes to movement expansion, this article identifies the underinvestigated concept of frame-movement scope mismatch—the phenomenon where the scope of movement frames and the scope of the movements that employ such frames do not match, such as a movement that adopts internationalist rhetoric yet remains local. This study investigates this mismatch based on cases of anti-U.S. military siting campaigns …
Activist Disconnect
Do activists seeking to challenge the U.S. military presence overseas succeed in persuading the local population? While the comparative literature on base contestation often makes implicit causal claims about public opinion and behavior, these claims have never been tested empirically using individual-level data. Based on an online survey, experiment with residents of communities hosting U.S. military bases in Korea and Japan, we demonstrate a di…
Status Hierarchies and Stigma Shifting in International Relations
How do states as social actors cope with stigma-induced status anxiety? I propose the concept of “stigma shifting” as a way in which status-anxious states overcompensate for their stigma-induced inferiority and reaffirm their place in the world: by seeking identification with higher-status states and differentiation from lower-status states. In identifying with the desired group of states, stigmatized states engage in approval-seeking behavior an…
Transnational Advocacy, Norm Regress, and Foreign Compliance Constituencies
The literature at the intersection of global norms and transnational advocacy typically equates target states’ foreign constituencies with those exerting normative pressure on the states in question on behalf of their domestic constituencies. Another type of foreign constituency remains undertheorized: foreign nationals as rights claimants who make normative claims against target states, such as victims of colonization seeking redress or refugees…
Scope Mismatch
While scholars agree that frame bridging contributes to movement expansion, this article identifies the underinvestigated concept of frame-movement scope mismatch—the phenomenon where the scope of movement frames and the scope of the movements that employ such frames do not match, such as a movement that adopts internationalist rhetoric yet remains local. This study investigates this mismatch based on cases of anti-U.S. military siting campaigns …
Political polarization and the energy policy paradox
Polarization surrounding nuclear power has intensified in Korea following the 2011 Fukushima disaster. In 2017, President Moon Jae-in implemented an energy policy that shifted the focus from nuclear to renewable energy, a departure from previous governments’ approaches. Additionally, Moon administration supported various participatory governance initiatives to minimize social conflicts, including participatory deliberative polls concerning the co…
Colonial Redress and the Unintended Consequences of Global Opportunities
Research shows that the rise of political and discursive opportunities enabled by the diffusion of progressive global norms has empowered many aggrieved local actors. Drawing on colonial victims’ transnational redress movements, I add to this literature in two ways. First, rejecting the common association between global opportunities and local movement facilitation and success, I make a counterintuitive argument that the early availability of opp…
Knowledge production through legal mobilization
There is growing interest in social movement actors as knowledge producers, but many movements have limited ability to access or produce credible, authoritative information. Building on sociolegal scholarship and social movement studies, we show how movements can overcome knowledge gaps they have via-à-vis state authorities and contribute to public knowledge through institutional tactics. We argue that features of the process of legal mobilizatio…
Dugong v. Rumsfeld
Two high-profile social movements against the construction of military bases in Jeju, South Korea, and Okinawa, Japan, represent a contest between anti-militarist ecological security and traditional military security. At the heart of these movements, which went from a local phenomenon to a transnational cause célèbre, are two iconic movement symbols: Gureombi, a unique lava rock formation, and the dugong, an endangered marine mammal. By analyzing…
Activist Disconnect
Do activists seeking to challenge the U.S. military presence overseas succeed in persuading the local population? While the comparative literature on base contestation often makes implicit causal claims about public opinion and behavior, these claims have never been tested empirically using individual-level data. Based on an online survey, experiment with residents of communities hosting U.S. military bases in Korea and Japan, we demonstrate a di…
Activist Disconnect
Do activists seeking to challenge the U.S. military presence overseas succeed in persuading the local population? While the comparative literature on base contestation often makes implicit causal claims about public opinion and behavior, these claims have never been tested empirically using individual-level data. Based on an online survey, experiment with residents of communities hosting U.S. military bases in Korea and Japan, we demonstrate a di…
Military alliances as a stabilising force
Two broad and seemingly contradictory perspectives exist on U.S. alliances with South Korea and Taiwan. One focuses on how Washington carefully designed the alliances to rein in its overly warlike junior partners, while the other focuses on the surprisingly big influence of Seoul and Taipei that belied the power asymmetry in their relationships with Washington. This paper shows the influence of small allies is not a static feature of asymmetrical…
Dugong v. Rumsfeld
Two high-profile social movements against the construction of military bases in Jeju, South Korea, and Okinawa, Japan, represent a contest between anti-militarist ecological security and traditional military security. At the heart of these movements, which went from a local phenomenon to a transnational cause célèbre, are two iconic movement symbols: Gureombi, a unique lava rock formation, and the dugong, an endangered marine mammal. By analyzing…
Scope Mismatch
While scholars agree that frame bridging contributes to movement expansion, this article identifies the underinvestigated concept of frame-movement scope mismatch—the phenomenon where the scope of movement frames and the scope of the movements that employ such frames do not match, such as a movement that adopts internationalist rhetoric yet remains local. This study investigates this mismatch based on cases of anti-U.S. military siting campaigns …
Transnational Advocacy, Norm Regress, and Foreign Compliance Constituencies
The literature at the intersection of global norms and transnational advocacy typically equates target states’ foreign constituencies with those exerting normative pressure on the states in question on behalf of their domestic constituencies. Another type of foreign constituency remains undertheorized: foreign nationals as rights claimants who make normative claims against target states, such as victims of colonization seeking redress or refugees…
A Conversation with Claudia Junghyun Kim, author of Base Towns
Rabson discusses the new book, Base Towns: Local Contestation of the U.S. Military in Korea and Japan with the author, Claudia Junghyun Kim, who traces contentious politics surrounding twenty U.S. military bases across Japan and Korea—two of the largest U.S. base hosts in the world. Kim's book focuses on the municipalities hosting these bases and differing levels of community acceptance and resistance over time. The following excerpt from the boo…
Knowledge production through legal mobilization
There is growing interest in social movement actors as knowledge producers, but many movements have limited ability to access or produce credible, authoritative information. Building on sociolegal scholarship and social movement studies, we show how movements can overcome knowledge gaps they have via-à-vis state authorities and contribute to public knowledge through institutional tactics. We argue that features of the process of legal mobilizatio…
Differences between the Effects of Direct and Indirect Earthquake Experiences on Disaster Preparedness
This study aims to examine the relationship between earthquake experience and preparedness over time, specifically investigating the statistical associations between direct and indirect experiences of infrequent and moderate earthquakes and various preparedness measures. Using survey data from 2018 to 2020, this study identified the relationship between direct/indirect experiences and compliance with emergency preparedness measures, seismic reinf…
The rhetoric of norm evasion and its social psychological underpinnings
The growing focus on the agency of norm violators has led to new insights on various rhetorical strategies that states accused of norm violation deploy. However, few studies have simultaneously examined both specific rhetorical devices that enable norm evasion and their social psychological underpinnings. Building on International Relations (IR) research on norm evasion and social psychological research on in-group wrongdoings, this paper concept…
Colonial Redress and the Unintended Consequences of Global Opportunities
Research shows that the rise of political and discursive opportunities enabled by the diffusion of progressive global norms has empowered many aggrieved local actors. Drawing on colonial victims’ transnational redress movements, I add to this literature in two ways. First, rejecting the common association between global opportunities and local movement facilitation and success, I make a counterintuitive argument that the early availability of opp…
Status Hierarchies and Stigma Shifting in International Relations
How do states as social actors cope with stigma-induced status anxiety? I propose the concept of “stigma shifting” as a way in which status-anxious states overcompensate for their stigma-induced inferiority and reaffirm their place in the world: by seeking identification with higher-status states and differentiation from lower-status states. In identifying with the desired group of states, stigmatized states engage in approval-seeking behavior an…
Lost Paradise
In the history of Soviet kolkhoz (collective-farm) research, the 'advanced kolkhoz (millionaire) phenomenon' remains almost unexplored, although it was a notable social-economic phenomenon.Members of the Korean advanced kolkhozes in Central Asia, which operated since the late 1930s to the 1980s, at first adapted to the kolkhoz system through hard work, but later became very active in creating social-cultural institutions within the kolkhoz system…
Political polarization and the energy policy paradox
Polarization surrounding nuclear power has intensified in Korea following the 2011 Fukushima disaster. In 2017, President Moon Jae-in implemented an energy policy that shifted the focus from nuclear to renewable energy, a departure from previous governments’ approaches. Additionally, Moon administration supported various participatory governance initiatives to minimize social conflicts, including participatory deliberative polls concerning the co…
Political science (13 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Social movement (4 works) · History (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Redress (3 works)