기억 연구의 정치학적 시론: '70년만의 귀향사례'를 중심으로

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This essay is an attempt to expand memory studies into the discipline of political science. The case I analyze is “Returning Home in 70 Years” which is a civic movement for the Excavation and Repatriation of the Korean Forced Labor Victims in Hokkaido, Japan. First, I borrow the typology of memory activism suggested by Gutman and Wüstenberg. Returning Home has been made possible by the ‘Entangled Agents,’ who are ‘warriors’ with the perception of the past as ‘ongoing.’ Second, in order to analyze Memory Dynamics, I utilize the Lukes’ conceptualization of Power and Finnemore&Sikkink’s Norm Dynamics theory. Memory Activists can be divided into three phases: Memory Norm Activist-Memory Agenda Activist-Memory Onsite Activist. Returning Home event was made possible by Memory Norm/Agenda/Onsite Activities over about 50 years’ efforts.

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