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X-WR-CALNAME:[BOOK TALK] Against Abandonment: Repertoires of Solidarity in 
 South Korean Protest
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DESCRIPTION:Against Abandonment: Repertoires of Solidarity in South Korean 
 Protest (Stanford University Press\, 2025) by Jennifer Jihye Chun and Ju H
 ui Judy Han offers insight into the utility and futility of protesting pre
 carity under neoliberal capitalism. Based on long-term ethnographic resear
 ch and in-depth interviews with key labor and social movement activists\, 
 the book follows the protests of minoritized workers\, especially women em
 ployed in precarious jobs\, as they contend with what it means to be treat
 ed as disposable and what it takes to resist. Long-term protest camps\, li
 fe-threatening hunger strikes\, grueling prostrations\, perilous high-alti
 tude occupations are agonizing to perform and to witness but often powerfu
 l as affective catalysts of change. Through dramatic performances and ritu
 als that are repeated across time and space\, Against Abandonment finds th
 at protesters cultivate repertoires of solidarity as a relational force th
 at binds people and worlds together in a collective praxis of refusal. In 
 doing so\, Against Abandonment builds upon intersectional\, transnational\
 , and abolitionist feminist theorizing that has long emphasized the centra
 lity of building relations of care and community in place-based struggles 
 against capitalist abandonment.\n\nJennifer J. Chun is Professor of Asian 
 American Studies and Labor Studies at UCLA. Her research and teaching focu
 s on labor and community organizing\; gender\, care\, and migration\; ethn
 ography and intersectional feminist methods\; and culture\, power\, and gl
 obal capitalism. She is the author of the award-winning book Organizing at
  the Margins: the Symbolic Politics of Labor in South Korea and the United
  States (Cornell University Press) and Against Abandonment: Repertoires So
 lidarity in South Korean Protest (co-authored with Ju Hui Judy Han\; forth
 coming\, Stanford University Press). Chun is currently Chair of Internatio
 nal Development Studies (IDS) and Associate Director of the Institute for 
 Research on Labor and Employment.
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LOCATION:Encina Hall\, Third Floor\, Philippines Conference Room\, C330
SUMMARY:[BOOK TALK] Against Abandonment: Repertoires of Solidarity in South
  Korean Protest
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 nt-repertoires-of-solidarity-in-south-korean-protest
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