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Pohang Earthquake and Social Movement: Privatization of Conflicts and Scale Discrepancy

  • Civil Society and NGO
  • 2020, 18(1), pp.203~239
  • Publisher : The Third Sector Institute
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general > Other Social Science in general
  • Received : April 10, 2020
  • Accepted : May 23, 2020
  • Published : May 31, 2020

Kim, Chulsik 1

1포항공과대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study analyzes civil society responses to the Pohang earthquake that occurred on November 15, 2017. The characteristics and limitations of the Pohang civil society movement, which have been actively developed since the earthquake, are investigated. After the earthquake, Pohang civil society actively participated in the earthquake response activities. In the early days, many residents' organizations were newly formed, and existing social movement organizations also participated in the earthquake response. Various agendas and demands erupted and citizen participation expanded. Over time, these diverse activities have been converged into a campaign to enact a special law to examinate the relation between earthquake and geothermal power generation and to compensate for the damage accordingly, as well as a civic participation lawsuit to punish those responsible and compensate for the damage. In the process, there is a tendency to privatize the conflict, such as failing attempts to spread conflict to the national agenda and reducing the scope of the conflicts participants. As the participation of the existing social movements in the response to the earthquake was almost absent, the channel to expand the agenda into the country was limited. As a result, scale discrepancy is occurring. Namely problem resolution is delayed due to the fact that the issue itself can be solved by mobilizing resources and capabilities on a national scale, while the subject of the movement is limited to the local scale.

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