New Ways of Solidarity with Korean Comfort Women

Ñusta Carranza Ko is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Baltimore. She is the author of Truth, Justice, Reparations in Peru, Uruguay, and South Korea: The Clash of Advocacy and Politics (2021), co-author of Theories of International Relations and the Game of Thrones (2019), and has also published several articles and chapters in memory and genocide studies. Her research focuses on transitional justice in Latin America and Asia, Indigenous peoples’ rights in Peru, and historical women’s rights violations in Korea (i.e., the case of comfort women). She is of Indigenous (Quechua-speaking peoples from the Northern Andes of Peru) and Korean descent.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: New Ways of Solidarity with Korean Comfort Women.- Part I. Victims, Stories, and Transformations.- Chapter 2: The Power of Korean “Comfort Women’s” Testimonies”.- Chapter 3: Rise of the Comfort Women Issue in the United States: From the Perspective of the Korean Diaspora.- Chapter 4: Reconfiguring Activist-Survivors of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery, Remapping Encounters between Colonial Women.- Part II. Ways of Memory, Remembrance, and Healing.- Chapter 5: New Genres, New Audiences: Retelling the Story of Japan’s Military Sexual Slavery.- Chapter 6: Korean ‘Comfort Women’ Films Following the 2015 Korea-Japan Comfort Women Agreement: Historical Perceptions of Military Sexual Slavery Amid Strained Korea-Japan Relations.- Chapter 7: Keeping the memory of comfort women alive: How social media can be used to preserve the memory of comfort women and educate future generations.- Chapter 8: Kut as Political Disobedience, Healing, and Resilience.- Part III. Global Actors, Legal Frames, and Contested Memories.- Chapter 9: How is the Memory of a Nation Made? Discovery of North Korean “Comfort Stations” and the Politics of “Places of Memory”.- Chapter 10: On Comfort Women’s Way to the United Nations.- Chapter 11: Lessons from International Human Rights Norms and Korea’s comfort women-girls.