3·1운동 100주년의 대중정치와 한국 민족주의의 현재

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze ‘popular politics’ and nationalism of Korea with the governmentled project to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the March 1 Movement and anti-Japanese boycott collective action. Firstly I suggest that the Korean nationalism should be viewed not as a singular ideology or a representation system but as a live ideology with a multilayered figure. In other words, nationalism is a real and present force that intersects neoliberalism, populism, division system and combines gender, race and labor. So when discussing Korean nationalism today, we should consider the influence of transnational capitalism and neo-liberal economic effect, and also consider the post-2000s ‘Daehanminguk nationalism’ and its hegemony.BRBased on these, I analyzed the characteristics and orientation of the government-led commemoration project for the centennial of the March 1 Movement. In particular, I argued what ideological effect on the politics of large-scale commemoration and of memory, and what political context they were in, focusing on the activities and discourse of ‘the Presidential Committee for the 100th anniversary of March 1 Movement and the establishment of the Provisional Government’.BRAnd also I examined the process of the mass anti-Japanese boycott movement in 2019 and its cultural politics. The 2016~17 Candlelight Protests created a new mechanism of public activism. I would argue that there is a link between the anti-Japanese boycott movement and the Candlelight Protests, including its limitations and weaknesses. Finally, I looked into the reaction and centrifugal force to the imagination and planning of nationalist popular politics. The main examples were the dissenting views on the nationalist fervor within the liberal/ progress camp amd the context of best-selling book such as “Anti-Japanese Racism”