South Korean civil movement organisations

This highly engaging book invites the reader to learn about how South Korean activists intellectuals and various reformers approach the role of civil society in a post-colonial post-Cold War post-dictatorship and post-IMF neoliberal democracy. In particular it provides a detailed description of civil movement organisations in Seoul leading up to during and after the Roh Moo Hyun era (2003-8). The book engages the entangled hopes crises and pragmatic transitions that animated this era in South Korean politics and connects it with larger debates in anthropology sociology law and politics from around the world. Ultimately the book contributes to growing areas of research advocacy and general interest in pragmatism ethnography hope and crisis.