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On March 18, 1871, Taewongun (Grand Prince) who held real power when King Kojong (r. 1863-1907) assumed power at the age of 12, issued a historical order that was enforced nationwide: All Confucian private academies ever built, except for the forty-seven royal-chartered ones, were to be destroyed. To justify this unprecedented repression, Taewongun argued that the academies were "the fundamental causes for the decaying nation." During the period from 1865 to 1871, over 800 academies were abolished and these intermediate organizations largely disappeared from the central scene of the Korean history and politics. Taewongun's startling regulation of private academies was rather surprising. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, Choson monarchs enthusiastically encouraged and sponsored the establishment of the academies on the ground that the academy growth would contribute to country's moral reform and state-building. Why did the dramatic change of governmental policy on the academies occur? How can we resolve this historical enigma? To answer these questions, Koo situates this historical drama in a broader -structural- sociological context involving political competition between the state and nascent civil society, in association with his aim of overcoming the current historical explanations emphasizing more imminent causes of the abolition, such as military and fiscal abuses of the academies.
Jeong-Woo Koo is a visiting scholar at the department of sociology, Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University in 2007. His interests include comparative-historical sociology, organizations, sociology of education, political sociology, quantitative method, and East-Asian studies. His dissertation explores a long term political competition between state and civil society in Choson Korea. He is currently working on two projects, one on the worldwide expansion of international human rights and its impact on nation-states (with John Meyer and Francisco Ramirez), and the other on the formation of regionalism in East Asia (with Gi-Wook Shin). His publications include "The Origins of the Public Sphere and Civil Society: Private Academies and Petitions in Korea, 1506-1800," Social Science History 31: 3 (Fall 2007), and "World Society and Human Rights: Worldwide Foundings of National Human Rights Institutions, 1978-2004," Korean Journal of Sociology 41: 3 (Spring 2007).
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Excerpt from page 4 of John R. Bowen's "If Citizenship is Political Community, then Which Communities Count? Borders and boundaries in France and Indonesia":
But these acts of invoking citizenship as participatory membership in order to support citizenship as the territorial state can open the door to other, alternative claims about political community, claims that challenge the postulates of territorial boundedness and legal uniformity.
It is these challenges to the national model that I wish to address, doing so by looking at some current developments in the two places where I continue to work, France and Indonesia. In France efforts to strengthen territorial control and internal uniformity have the upper hand, but they have encountered claims that cities should run their own affairs and that long-term residents must be fully incorporated into the political community. In Indonesia it is rather arguments based on participatory membership that are on the rise, and they draw on pre-national institutions of local control and Islamic norms; in turn, however, they are challenged by those in the state and the army who privilege a logic of the territorial state. The objects of debate are in some sense, mirror images - in France, external borders; in Indonesia, internal boundaries - but both debates concern the legitimacy of alternative ideas of political community.
About the Author
John R. Bowen is the Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. His research explores broad social transformations now taking place in the worldwide Muslim community, including special emphasis on Muslim life in Indonesia. His research focuses on the role of cultural forms (religious practices, aesthetic genres, legal discourse) in processes of social change. In most of his work he has looked outward from a longterm research site in the Gayo highlands of Sumatra, Indonesia, to the broader transformations taking place in the Indonesian nation and elsewhere around the globe.
Sponsored by the Program on Global Justice and the Stanford Humanities Center
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Session I: What are Deliberation and Clumsiness?
Loren King, MIT
"Democracy and Deliberation: A Review of Recent Theories and Proposals"
Michael Thompson, University of Bergen
"Clumsiness: It's as Easy as Falling off a Log"
Session II: UN & International Environmental Regimes
Tom Heller, Stanford University
"Clumsy Institutions against Global Warming"
Session III: EMU & WTO
Susanne Lohmann, UCLA
"Sollbruchstelle: Mass Democracy, Deep Uncertainty and Institutional Design"
Rob Howse, University of Michigan
"Democracy, Science, and Free Trade: Risk Regulation on Trial at the WTO"
Session IV: World Bank, IMF & International Labor Standards
Archon Fung, Harvard University
"Globalizing with a Human Face: How Deliberation, Transparency, and Competition Can Improve International Labor Standards"
Marco Verweij, Max Planck Institute in Bonn
"The Need to Make the World Bank & IMF Clumsier"
Session V: General Discussion
Introduced and chaired by Joseph Steiglitz, Stanford University
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European Institutions Seminar Series
Daniel and Nancy Okimoto Conference Room
European Institutions Seminar Series
Daniel and Nancy Okimoto Conference Room
European Institutions Seminar Series
European Institutions Seminar Series
Daniel and Nancy Okimoto Conference Room
European Institutions Seminar Series
Daniel and Nancy Okimoto Conference Room
European Institutions Seminar Series
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