North Korean Human Rights: Activists and Networks

Cambridge University Press, 8/9/2018
EAN 9781108425490, ISBN10: 1108425496

Hardcover, 330 pages, 22.7 x 15.7 x 2.3 cm
Language: English

The evidentiary weight of North Korean defectors' testimony depicting crimes against humanity has drawn considerable attention from the international community in recent years. Despite the attention to North Korean human rights, what remains unexamined is the rise of the transnational advocacy network, which drew attention to the issue in the first place. Andrew Yeo and Danielle Chubb explore the 'hard case' that is North Korea and challenge existing conceptions of transnational human rights networks, how they operate, and why they provoke a response from even the most recalcitrant regimes. In this volume, leading experts and activists assemble original data from multiple language sources, including North Korean sources, and adopt a range of sophisticated methodologies to provide valuable insight into the politics, strategy, and policy objectives of North Korean human rights activism.

1. Adaptive activism
transnational advocacy networks and the case of North Korea Danielle Chubb and Andrew Yeo
Part I. Domestic Discourse and Activism
2. A prisoner's dilemma of movement nationalization
North Korean human rights in South Korea, 1990–2016 Jacob Reidhead
3. North Korean human rights discourse and advocacy in the United States Andrew Yeo
4. Linking abductions activism to North Korean human rights advocacy in Japan and abroad Celeste L. Arrington
5. North Korean human rights discourse and advocacy
the European dimension Rajiv Narayan
Part II. Transnational Networks
6. NGOs as discursive catalysts at the United Nations and beyond
an activist's perspective Joanna Hosaniak
7. Human rights diffusion in North Korea
the impact of transnational legal mobilization Patricia Goedde
8. The politics of networking
behind the public face of the transnational North Korean human rights movement Danielle Chubb
Part III. North Korean Voices
9. The emergence of five North Korean defector-activists in transnational activism Jiyoung Song
10. North Korea responds to transnational human rights advocacy
state discourse and ersatz civil society Sandra Fahy
11. Breaking through
North Korea's information underground and transnational advocacy networks Jieun Baek
12. Conclusion
the contentious terrain of North Korean human rights activism Andrew Yeo and Danielle Chubb.