일본군 ‘위안부’ 운동 : 포스트/식민국가의 역사적 현재성

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This paper seeks to analyze the women’s movement for/on ‘comfort women,’ particularly focusing on the way of interaction with knowledge production, shifting social and cultural terrain inside/outside Korea, and reactionary, alternative discourses that the movement has produced. I argue that the women’s movement for/on ‘comfort women’ as a trans/national movement casts multiple insights into not just feminist activism but also academia in South Korea, a postcolonial nation-state, such as how to understand the relationship between/among nationalism, colonialism, and patriarchy; how to face up coloniality deeply embedded within our consciousness and subconsciousness and to excavate it; and how to speak to subalterns who have rarely spoke up in the public sphere, departing from merely representing or speak for historical ‘victims.’ I believe that the women’s movement for/on ‘comfort women’ show us a possible vision for a trans/national women’s movement based upon organic transnational networks across national, racial, class, gender, cultural, and language differences to fight against varied global injustices.

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