Voluntary Outsiders in Their Anthropocentric Nation: Korean Vegan Youth Navigating between National Ruins and Transnational Mobilities

IF 0.7 3区 社会学 0 ASIAN STUDIES
Su Young Choi
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Abstract:This study asks why and how a segment of young people have led the emergence of veganism in contemporary South Korea since the mid-2010s, and what this appearance means—especially against the backdrop of the wide interpretation of Korean youth as disillusioned and depoliticized individuals who distrust the possibility of any positive social change. The article argues that the youth-driven Korean veganism has played a role in filling the void of the postdevelopmental, postindustrial, and postliberation era of climate crisis and planetary challenges by working as a broad vision for a good life and meaningful social change. Based on qualitative interviews, textual analysis, and participant observation, the article shows why veganism has worked as a way of alternative survival for vegan youth, how veganism as the source of voice and personal growth has been validated and cultivated by the transnational youth culture, and what has enabled veganism's solidarity from and coalition with other social movements. The article contributes to diversifying the representation of Korean youth and their agencies beyond the ruins and pessimism of the neoliberalized Korean society.
自愿外来者在他们的人类中心国家:韩国素食青年在国家废墟和跨国流动之间导航
摘要:本研究探讨了自2010年代中期以来,一部分年轻人为何以及如何在当代韩国引领素食主义的出现,以及这种出现意味着什么——尤其是在韩国年轻人被广泛解读为幻想破灭和去政治化的个体,他们不信任任何积极社会变革的可能性的背景下。文章认为,以年轻人为中心的韩国纯素食主义,作为美好生活和有意义的社会变革的广阔愿景,填补了气候危机和地球挑战的后发展时代、后工业时代、后解放时代的空白。基于定性访谈、文本分析和参与者观察,本文展示了为什么纯素食主义成为纯素食青年的一种替代生存方式,纯素食主义作为声音和个人成长的来源是如何被跨国青年文化所验证和培养的,以及是什么使纯素食主义与其他社会运动团结一致和联合起来的。在新自由主义化的韩国社会的废墟和悲观主义之外,这篇文章有助于使韩国青年的代表性和能动性多样化。
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