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SUMMARY:Dilemma and legal advocacy in South Korean queer activism
DESCRIPTION:Contact: kimhean.hok@ace.lu.se\n\nAbstract:The South Korean LGB
 TQ+ movement has increasingly used legislative and litigatory means since 
 the late 2000s. Various legal agendas and cases emerged as a key element o
 f activism. Such a trend contrasts with how it put more energy into formin
 g community spaces\, support groups\, cultural representation and awarenes
 s raising in earlier years of the movement. Many queer activists and the i
 nterested public are perceiving the law as a primary tool for remedying so
 cial discrimination based on heterosexism and gender binarism. More recent
 ly\, anti-LGBTQ right-wing groups have also adopted legal soundbites as op
 posed to religious rhetoric. Their discourses revolve around proposed lega
 l changes. My long-term ethnographic research explores how queer activists
  in Korea face and cope with dilemmas and tension between queering the sta
 tus quo and institutionalizing queerness in their advocacy. Those dilemmas
  constitute the very ways in which queer activists engage with the law. As
  the juridification of politics is intensifying in many local and global s
 ocial movements\, the case of South Korean queer politics has much to offe
 r in understanding the relationship between legal change and broader socia
 l justice.Speaker’s bio:Yookyeong Im is a Lecturer in Korean Studies at 
 the University of Sheffield. She examines how legal frames intersect with 
 gender and sexuality in social discrimination and political aspiration in 
 South Korea. At present\, she is working on a book manuscript that explore
 s the increasing centrality of legal advocacy in the nation’s queer poli
 tics and its implication on shaping queer political imaginations. Her rese
 arch has been funded by the Social Science Research Council\, Wenner-Gren 
 Foundation\, and the Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies\, among others.
  Dr Im obtained her degree in Anthropology with a secondary field in the S
 tudies of Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality at Harvard University in 2023. Sh
 e held a postdoctoral fellowship at Indiana University Bloomington\, prior
  to taking up her position in Sheffield&nbsp\;\n\nMore information about t
 he event: https://www.ace.lu.se/calendar/dilemma-and-legal-advocacy-south-
 korean-queer-activism
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LOCATION:Asia Library\, Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies\, Söl
 vegatan 18 B\, Lund
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