RT Article
T1 Deploying Weapons of the Weak in Civil Society: Political Culture in Hong Kong and Taiwan
JF Social justice
VO 33
IS 2
SP 77
OP 104
A1 Lo, Ming-Cheng M. 1965-
A2 Bettinger, Christopher P.
A2 Fan, Yun
LA English
YR 2006
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747157562
AB Part of a special issue on art, power, and social change. A study was conducted to examine how cultures that have been oppressed take repertoires of resistance and turn them into civil speech. Data were obtained from analysis of 144 political cartoons from Hong Kong published in the two months before the 1995 Legislative Council elections and analysis of 232 political cartoons from Taiwan published two months prior to the 2000 elections. Findings revealed that the cultural inheritance of double consciousness and cynical humor enabled individuals in Hong Kong and Taiwan to participate as public citizens. Drawing on their pasts, these two nascent civil societies develop scripts that enable actors to imagine embracing the fractured self or living with the enemy. In both cases, double consciousness and cynical humor, rather than being irrelevant or disabling, provide a cultural resource for the public to envision mutual engagement across deep-seated divisions. Findings are discussed in detail.
K1 Social Sciences
K1 Elections
K1 Social Contract
K1 Culture
K1 Community Involvement
K1 Social Movements
K1 Political Participation
K1 Civil Society