The counter-boomerang effect of transnational revisionist activism on the memory of ‘comfort women’

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ID12905451
AuthorsSachiyo Tsukamoto (0000-0001-8699-6635, University of Newcastle Australia, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume15
Issue6
Pages1346-1359
Publication date2022-11-30
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMemory Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1750-6980 • E-ISSN: 1750-6999
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/17506980221134907
OpenAlexW4311057651
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited17

This article focuses on the mechanism of the global memory politics revolving around the issue of ‘comfort women’, who were sexually exploited and abused by the Japanese military during the Asia-Pacific War (1931–1945). Informed by the ‘boomerang effect’ of transnational advocacy networks, this article analyses how the counter-boomerang effect of transnational denialist networks, both from above and below, has challenged the concerted efforts of moral memory activists in solidarity to disseminate the issue of ‘comfort women’ as one of universal human rights. It concludes that the revisionist network has adopted four tactics similar to those exercised by transnational advocacy networks – ‘information politics’ ‘symbolic politics’, ‘leverage politics’ and ‘accountability politics’ – however, their manoeuvres are totally different from those in the original boomerang effect

Accountability · Comfort women · Contentious politics · Human rights · Leverage (statistics · Political science · Politics · Social movement · Sociology · Solidarity · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration

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