Echoes of the Past, Epics of Dissent - A South Korean Social Movement

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About the author

Nancy Abelmann is Assistant Professor in the departments of Anthropology and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Summary

This story of a South Korean social movement offers a window to a decade of tumultuous social protest. It describes the period in which farmers, student activists and organizers joined to protest the corporate ownership of tenant plots never distributed in the 1949 Land Reform.

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Abelmann, Abelmann Nancy
• Assisted by: Nancy Abelmann (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.11.1996
• EAN: 9780520204188
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20418-8
• No. of pages: 467
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / Korea, South Korea, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Asian History, Demonstrations & protest movements