Circles of Poetic Grief, Anger, and Hope: Landscapes of Mass Cooperation in Seoul after the Sewŏl Disaster

IF 0.4 3区社会学 0 FOLKLORE

JOURNAL OF FOLKLORE RESEARCH Pub Date : 2020-03-13 DOI:10.2979/jfolkrese.57.1.01

Liora Sarfati, Bora Chung

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Abstract

Abstract:Material expressions of emotion and ideology transformed downtown Seoul from 2014–2019 into an extended commemorative monument dedicated to those who died in the tragic sinking of the ferry Sewŏl on April 16, 2014. This unfortunate event stimulated diverse personal and political responses, in large part because there were 250 high school students on a fieldtrip among the 304 casualties. Analyzing the new shapes that the Sewŏl memorials have introduced into the urban landscape reveals the ways in which the city has maintained its fast flow of life while at the same time allowing city dwellers to poetically express grief, anger, and hope. The aggregated practices of various people with diverse agendas amounted to unique artistic, architectural, and emotion-soliciting structures that are delineated in this essay as landscapes of mass cooperation. These landscapes were crafted by thousands of individuals without a firm aesthetic or content related scheme, and they changed as emotions shifted from hope for survivors to grief over the immense death toll and rage toward those responsible for it.

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诗意的悲伤、愤怒和希望的圈子：首尔Sewŏl灾难后的群众合作景观

摘要:2014年至2019年，情感和意识形态的物质表达将首尔市中心变成了一座纪念2014年4月16日沉船事故中遇难者的延伸纪念碑Sewŏl。这一不幸事件激起了不同的个人和政治反应，很大程度上是因为304名遇难者中有250名高中生参加了实地考察。分析Sewŏl纪念馆引入城市景观的新形状，揭示了城市保持快速生活流动的方式，同时允许城市居民诗意地表达悲伤，愤怒和希望。不同的人带着不同的议程，聚集在一起的实践形成了独特的艺术、建筑和情感征集结构，这在本文中被描述为大规模合作的景观。这些风景是由成千上万的人创作的，没有固定的审美或内容相关的计划，随着情绪从对幸存者的希望转变为对巨大死亡人数的悲伤和对责任人的愤怒，它们也发生了变化。

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Folklore Research has provided an international forum for current theory and research among scholars of traditional culture since 1964. Each issue includes topical, incisive articles of current theoretical interest to folklore and ethnomusicology as international disciplines, as well as essays that address the fieldwork experience and the intellectual history of folklore and ethnomusicology studies. Contributors include scholars and professionals in additional fields, including anthropology, area studies, communication, cultural studies, history, linguistics, literature, performance studies, religion, and semiotics.