The role of history in shaping the success of legalizing abortion in South Korea

South Korea is one of the few developed countries around the world that has criminalized abortion. On April 11th 2019, South Korea’s Supreme Court ruled that the ban on abortion was unconstitutional and would be lifted (S. Kim, 2019). Women would no longer be facing prison or incur massive fines for getting an abortion (McCurry,

The effects of the patriarchy and the political economy of Hallyu on beauty practices in South Korea

Korean skincare and make-up has become increasingly popular within Asia as of recent years. As Asia gains global influence, it is important to understand the unrealistic beauty standards that have been perpetuated within South Korea by social structures rooted in their historical and local narratives. Global sales of South Korean skincare products are set to

Video Project: Source Research No.2

Source Reference: Dubois, Laurent. “Why Haiti Should Be at the Centre of the Age of Revolution – Laurent Dubois: Aeon Essays.” Aeon, Aeon, 12 Nov. 2019, aeon.co/essays/why-haiti-should-be-at-the-centre-of-the-age-of-revolution. While discussing the Independence of Haiti it is of great significance to note that it was one of the first slave led rebellions in a revolution that would

Week 13: The Common Thread

For this week I looked at two articles which were both featured on the Guardian news page. One article is explaining a common thread in the protests that have recently been occurring in countries within Latin America. The second article is discussing the anti abortion laws within Latin America. I chose to look at these

Week 12: Where do we go now?

I found this weeks readings very emotional and it was hard to read about the atrocities that went on in Latin America during the late 20th century and the early 21st century. It was also very moving to read about the Madres de la plaza de Mayo in particular. For a group of mothers who

Video Project : Research Source no.1

Source reference: Bethell, L. (Ed.). (1993). Argentina since Independence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511609480 Our Video Project will be focusing on Week 4: Independence Narrative, Past and Present. One of the primary sources we will use focuses on the Independence of Argentina from colonial rule. The source is called ‘Argentina since Independence’ and was written by

Week 11: The Violent Pursuit for Freedom

Throughout the history of Latin America, violence played a major role in the movements of political and social change. During the mid to late 1900s terror ensued in countries all over Latin America while people were trying to fight for a better life. By the 1986 in Latina America, almost no government had come into

Week 10a: The Competing Narratives

I found this weeks readings extremely interesting! It felt as though there was a whole completely other way of governing a post colonial state. The Revolution which began around 1959 in Cuba with political actors such as Fidel Castro and Che Guevara leading the way, was the start of a new age. The Revolution is

Week 10: Echoes of a Nation

Throughout the earlier political history of Latin America and more specifically Argentina, the power had been dictated by the few rather than the many. There was power held by the colonisers, the elites, and the governing bodies. With the rise of media being used to spread political messages across the nation, the ‘power’ was being

Week 8: Belonging to nowhere

This weeks readings shed more light on another perspective of the development of Latin America in the early 1900s. It is interesting to read from the perspective of the people from Latin America in literary forms that exist outside the sphere of the elites. It is refreshing to try to understand history from perspectives that