This book provides a space for victims' testimonies and memories, engages with their experiences, reflects upon the redress movement, and evaluates policies related to Korean comfort women as victims and survivors from the international, domestic, and bilateral realms. Collectively, this edited volume aims to further diversify the scholarship on comfort women, contribute to the existing literature on social movements related to comfort women and other related studies, and, in doing so, challenge the politicization of comfort women. With this objective, the book presents scholarship from interdisciplinary fields that revisit the meaning of victims' testimonies, memories, and remembrance, social movement efforts on comfort women, and the related role of government, governance, and society by reflecting on the truths about the historical past. In so doing, it initiates new conversations among political scientists, sociologists, historians, and cultural and literary scholars. What do victims' testimonies reveal about new ways of imagining historical memory of Korean comfort women? How are memories of comfort women and their experiences remembered in social movements, literature, and cultural practices? Where is the place of comfort women's experiences in politics, diplomacy, and global affairs? These are some of the questions that guide the contributions to this edited volume, which seek to establish new ways of solidarity with comfort women.

Rectifies misconstrued truths Rebukes politicization about comfort women Revisits the meaning of victims' testimonies and memories

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Ñusta Carranza Ko is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Baltimore. She is the author of Truth, Justice, Reparations in Peru, Uruguay, and South Korea: The Clash of Advocacy and Politics (2021), co-author of Theories of International Relations and the Game of Thrones (2019), and has also published several articles and chapters in memory and genocide studies. Her research focuses on transitional justice in Latin America and Asia, Indigenous peoples' rights in Peru, and historical women's rights violations in Korea (i.e., the case of comfort women). She is of Indigenous (Quechua-speaking peoples from the Northern Andes of Peru) and Korean descent.

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This book provides a space for victims testimonies and memories, engages with their experiences, reflects upon the redress movement, and evaluates policies related to Korean comfort women as victims and survivors from the international, domestic, and bilateral realms. Collectively, this edited volume aims to further diversify the scholarship on comfort women, contribute to the existing literature on social movements related to comfort women and other related studies, and, in doing so, challenge the politicization of comfort women. With this objective, the book presents scholarship from interdisciplinary fields that revisit the meaning of victims testimonies, memories, and remembrance, social movement efforts on comfort women, and the related role of government, governance, and society by reflecting on the truths about the historical past. In so doing, it initiates new conversations among political scientists, sociologists, historians, and cultural and literary scholars. What do victims testimonies reveal about new ways of imagining historical memory of Korean comfort women? How are memories of comfort women and their experiences remembered in social movements, literature, and cultural practices? Where is the place of comfort women s experiences in politics, diplomacy, and global affairs? These are some of the questions that guide the contributions to this edited volume, which seek to establish new ways of solidarity with comfort women.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Introduction: New Ways of Solidarity with Korean Comfort Women.- Part I. Victims, Stories, and Transformations.- Chapter 2: The Power of Korean Comfort Women's Testimonies.- Chapter 3: Rise of the Comfort Women Issue in the United States: From the Perspective of the Korean Diaspora.- Chapter 4: Reconfiguring Activist-Survivors of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery, Remapping Encounters between Colonial Women.- Part II. Ways of Memory, Remembrance, and Healing.- Chapter 5: New Genres, New Audiences: Retelling the Story of Japan's Military Sexual Slavery.- Chapter 6: Korean 'Comfort Women' Films Following the 2015 Korea-Japan Comfort Women Agreement: Historical Perceptions of Military Sexual Slavery Amid Strained Korea-Japan Relations.- Chapter 7: Keeping the memory of comfort women alive: How social media can be used to preserve the memory of comfort women and educate future generations.- Chapter 8: Kut as Political Disobedience, Healing, and Resilience.- Part III. Global Actors, Legal Frames, and Contested Memories.- Chapter 9: How is the Memory of a Nation Made? Discovery of North Korean Comfort Stations and the Politics of Places of Memory.- Chapter 10: On Comfort Women's Way to the United Nations.- Chapter 11: Lessons from International Human Rights Norms and Korea's comfort women-girls.