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Biographical Context of Participation in Social Movement : A biography-reconstructive analysis on experiences in Miryang struggle against 765kV transmission tower

  • The Korean Journal of Archival Studies
  • 2015, (44), pp.101-151
  • Publisher : Korean Society Of Archival Studies
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science

Kim Young 1,  Seol, Moon-won 1

1부산대학교

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This article analyzes biographies of women participants in Miryang struggle against 765kV transmission tower and finds that the experience of state violence under the ideological conflicts works the biographical context of participation in environment movement. The cases analyzed in this article disclose the family member’s experience of state violence and their trauma through the participation in social movement. And they legitimize their family member’s life, heal their trauma, and live a new life by the social movement participation. But the power of healing trauma comes from solidarity and support in social movement. Findings of this article imply that experiences of state violence have influence on the formation and development of various Korean social movements and we need more solidarity and democracy for healing the trauma occurred by state violence and concealed in individual memory. Findings of this article also suggest the importance of biography documents. Biography documents can contribute to widen and to deepen understandings on the social interaction and social history, because they are the document about people’s experience who are excluded from the official history and character culture. Moreover biography documents can compensate the official documents, because they can offer the context to the social actions in the official documents. More accumulations and analyses on biographies can serve to widen and to deepen understanding and explanation of Korean society having multilayered exclusion in the process of the compressed modernization and the history of national division.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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