Jaeyeon LeeUniversity of Kentucky | UKY · Department of Geography
Jaeyeon Lee
Doctor of Philosophy
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In this article, we examine the ‘geopolitical positionality’ of transnational feminist researchers caught between hostile countries (home-field). We define geopolitical positionality as the researchers’ position influenced by international politics, discourses, and practices by core powers and hegemonic states. By revisiting our fieldwork experienc...
‘Comfort women’ refers to the estimated 80,000 to 200,000 women who were forced to serve the Japanese imperial army sexually, physically, and mentally during WWII in and beyond the Asia-Pacific region. Drawing on ethnographic research that I conducted on the protests for comfort women called ‘the Wednesday Demonstration’ from September 2019 to Augu...
This article examines how melancholia constitutes a psycho-geopolitical space interweaving Korean subjects’ psychic and political lives with the dynamics of the (post) Cold War alliance between Japan and the US. The Wednesday Demonstration is the weekly protest in Seoul that calls for an official apology and legal compensation from the Japanese gov...
