@article{ART001294816},
author={Dongwook Cha},
title={Politics on the Streets and Rights Discourse},
journal={Civil Society and NGO},
issn={1599-8568},
year={2008},
volume={6},
number={2},
pages={67-100}
TY - JOUR
AU - Dongwook Cha
TI - Politics on the Streets and Rights Discourse
JO - Civil Society and NGO
PY - 2008
VL - 6
IS - 2
PB - The Third Sector Institute
SP - 67
EP - 100
SN - 1599-8568
AB - It is generally conceived that the occurrence of large outdoor assemblies
and demonstrations is an evidence that politics neither is completely
institutionalized nor provides institutionalized communication channels for
protesters. According to this conception, politics on the streets is only
justified as a nonviolent resistance campaign and is very likely to disappear
if politics is completely institutionalized. This essay calls the conception into
question. If institutionalization means legalization, legalization tailors
participatory urges soaking out of ordinary lives and neutralizes those
passions. The moment the process of institutionalization is complete
communication channel becomes formalized. In other words, participation is
allowed only in the formalized structure. This participation lacks life.
In the spring of 2008, large candlelight demonstrations against the
import of U.S. beef brought hundreds of thousands of protesters to the
streets in the heart of Seoul and lasted more than two months. These
protesters refused to be under the lead of elite political circles. They
rejected regularized slogans. They voiced their concern about foods - a
matter of ordinary lives - by organizing and joining rallies which are the
most fundamental way of participation. Neither marginal nor final means
rallies are. Rallies are genuine grass-root participation. This essay analyzes
and criticizes the ideology that right to equal participation is exercised
legitimately only through institutionalized political communication
structures.
KW - candlelight demonstration;rally;participation;institutionalization;legalization
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Dongwook Cha. (2008). Politics on the Streets and Rights Discourse. Civil Society and NGO, 6(2), 67-100.
Dongwook Cha. 2008, "Politics on the Streets and Rights Discourse", Civil Society and NGO, vol.6, no.2 pp.67-100.
Dongwook Cha "Politics on the Streets and Rights Discourse" Civil Society and NGO 6.2 pp.67-100 (2008) : 67.
Dongwook Cha. Politics on the Streets and Rights Discourse. 2008; 6(2), 67-100.
Dongwook Cha. "Politics on the Streets and Rights Discourse" Civil Society and NGO 6, no.2 (2008) : 67-100.
Dongwook Cha. Politics on the Streets and Rights Discourse. Civil Society and NGO, 6(2), 67-100.
Dongwook Cha. Politics on the Streets and Rights Discourse. Civil Society and NGO. 2008; 6(2) 67-100.
Dongwook Cha. Politics on the Streets and Rights Discourse. 2008; 6(2), 67-100.
Dongwook Cha. "Politics on the Streets and Rights Discourse" Civil Society and NGO 6, no.2 (2008) : 67-100.
