From protest to collaboration: The evolution of the community movements amid sociopolitical transformation in South Korea
研究了韩国社区运动在半个世纪中如何从早期抗议活动演变为近期合作努力，并探讨这一长期演变如何影响城市变迁，对关注社会运动与城市发展的学者有参考价值。
What roles do grassroots movements play in urban change? While many studies have focused on the substantive effects of grassroots movements in specific times and places, few have examined how a movement sustains its long-term development through changing sociopolitical and urban circumstances, and how this long-term, historical evolvement affects urban change. In exploring the development of the community movements over half a century in Korea, this paper examines the community movements’ various incarnations, from its function as a repository for early protest activism to recent collaborative efforts in response to the complex transformation of political and social systems and the subsequent development of urban and regional policies. Throughout this transformation in Korea, grassroots community movements have acted as a critical social catalyst, exerting major influence on the country’s shift from a prototypical modernist planning structure to a decentralised, participatory system.