Civil Society on the Move

The essays in this book explore the possibility of new approaches for the study of Korean civil society and democracy by combining interdisciplinary and transregional research, thereby making a direct contribution to the field of democracy after democratization focusing on developments in Germany, Korea, and Eastern Europe.

Following the transformation of the Soviet-controlled Eastern European system, there has been a renewal of discourses on civil society. The collection of essays discusses this complicated and controversial concept and explores the possibility of new approaches for the study of Korean civil society and democracy. Combining interdisciplinary and transregional research, it contributes directly to the field of democracy after democratization and sheds light on concepts of civil society, developments of various civil society organizations and student movements in Germany, Korea, and Eastern Europe.

Autorentext

Eun-Jeung Lee is Head of the Institute of Korean Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Her major research fields are intercultural history of political ideas and political culture in East Asia.
Hannes B. Mosler is Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of East Asian Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. His major research interests are political parties, political systems, constitutional law, and policy decision processes in Korea.

Inhalt
Contents: Walter Reese-Schäfer: Civil Society and Political Theory Hyo-Je Cho: Voyage through Uncharted Waters: Challenges for Korean Civil Society in Times of Turbulent Democracy George Katsiaficas: A Global Perspective on 1968 Jin-Wook Shin: Ideological Conflict in Civil Society and Korean Democracy in Trouble Dieter Segert: Weak civil societies - either a legacy of state socialism or as produced by the transition stress? East Central Europe after 1989 in comparison Il-Pyo Hong: The Pressure of «Dual De-institutionalization» and the Institutionalized Response of Social Movements in Korea Klaus Meschkat: Students as agents of democratization in German society: 1968 and the revival of the concept of Council Democracy Axel Rüdiger: 1968 and its Consequences in the GDR - Looking for Traces in the Cultural Field Yun Tae Kim: The Social Impacts of Student Movement in Korea.