Coming to Terms with “Unreasonable” Global Power

The 2002 South Korean Candlelight Vigils

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7535530
AutoresJiyeon Kang (0000-0002-8938-7656, Schlumberger (Ireland), autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen6
Número2
Páginas171-192
Fecha de publicación2009-05-13
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCommunication and Critical/Cultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1479-1420 • E-ISSN: 1479-4233
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14791420902833155
OpenAlexW1970594830
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5

In this essay I examine the emergence of the 2002 South Korean candlelight vigils, with a focus on how South Korea's post-Cold War generation collectively defined two Korean girls’ deaths by a US military vehicle as a “national tragedy” and imagined themselves as a collective opponent of perceived Cold War politics. The Internet discourse that Korean “netizens” generated in the wake of the incident shows that Korea's Internet users interpreted and contested US hegemony by inventing local vernacular discourses: they created a collective identity based on shared feelings, invented criteria for reasonableness, and employed nontraditional forms of civic discourse. My analysis calls for attention to the vernacular discursive practices of social actors, who mediate, negotiate, and transform the manner in which global power relationships influence them within a local context

Context (archaeology · Hegemony · Literature · Media studies · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Tragedy (event · Vernacular · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Social Media and Politics