Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
6-2014
Abstract
Recent studies in collective memory point to the emergence of cosmopolitan commemoration that takes humanity, rather than nationality, as a primary frame of reference. But these studies have yet to specify how cosmopolitan commemoration emerges and articulates with existing nationalist commemoration. To solve this problem, we examine the “history problem” between Japan and South Korea by focusing on how relevant political and civic actors negotiated cosmopolitanism and nationalism in commemorating Japan’s past colonial rule and wartime atrocities. In light of our historical analysis, we argue that a synthesis of theories of institutional logics and social movements is useful in illuminating how the emergence of cosmopolitan commemoration is embedded in specific networks of political and civic actors as mobilizing structures, and how the content and trajectory of its articulation with nationalist commemoration depends on political opportunities available to competing networks aligned differently with the two logics of commemoration.
Keywords
collective memory, cosmopolitanism, nationalism, institutional logics, social movement
Discipline
Asian Studies | Politics and Social Change | Sociology of Culture
Research Areas
Sociology
Publication
Sociological Perspectives
Volume
57
Issue
2
First Page
167
Last Page
185
ISSN
1533-8673
Identifier
10.1177/0731121414524176
Publisher
SAGE
Citation
SAITO, Hiro, & WANG, Yoko.(2014). Competing Logics of Commemoration: Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in East Asia's History Problem. Sociological Perspectives, 57(2), 167-185.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1576
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Authors
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1177/0731121414524176