The Korean Thermidor
On political space and conservative reactions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8962849 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jamie Doucette (0000-0002-4006-9841, University of British Columbia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 299-310 |
| Publication date | 2012-05-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2012.00528.x |
| OpenAlex | W2143244366 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 27 |
In Metapolitics , French philosopher Alain Badiou uses the concept of a Thermidorean to denote a political subjectivity constituted through the termination of a political sequence. For Badiou, the actual Thermidor that followed the Jacobin insurrection of the French Revolution was not just a singular event but is a general type of political reaction. Badiou argues that a Thermidor is a reaction that is based on a corruption of political will and disarticulation of the political demands that inform a sequence of emancipatory politics. This article applies Badiou’s concept of Thermidorean politics to show how conservative forces in South Korea have targeted the political spaces of the Korean democracy movement. The afterlife of cold war representations of social space, the role of reform forces in the disarticulation of radical demands of the democracy movements, as well as the role of ‘renegade’ (formerly oppositional) intellectuals in the creation of a chimera of ‘pro‐North’ Left are analysed here as sources of a Korean Thermidor
Democracy · French revolution · Jacobin · Political economy · Political science · Political subjectivity · Politics · Sociology · Critical Theory and Political Philosophy · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
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Conservative Journalists’ Myth Making in South Korea
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Civil society, political society and politics of disorder in Cambodia
Experimental territoriality
Lineages of the Authoritarian State in Thailand
Pursuing Post-democratisation
The Emergence of Social Space
Geographies of Resistance
Mastering Space
May '68 and Its Afterlives
The Politics of Imagining Asia
Korean Workers and Neoliberal Globalization
Militarized Modernity and Gendered Citizenship in South Korea
The structure of the South Korean developmental regime and its transformation – statist mobilization and authoritarian integration in the anticommunist regimentation
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Political Space
Reflections on the Politics of Space
Sites, truths and the logics of worlds
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Discourse in the production of political space
Mad cow militancy
The Terminal Crisis of the "Participatory Government" and the Election of Lee Myung Bak
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,77 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2022 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |