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Reaching the Ordinary Citizen : = Variations in Hong Kong's LGBT Activism after the Umbrella Movement.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,手稿 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Reaching the Ordinary Citizen :/
其他題名:	Variations in Hong Kong's LGBT Activism after the Umbrella Movement.
作者:	Madson, Nathan H.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (299 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-02, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-02A.
標題:	Cultural anthropology. -
電子資源:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798534690330

Reaching the Ordinary Citizen : = Variations in Hong Kong's LGBT Activism after the Umbrella Movement.
Madson, Nathan H.

Reaching the Ordinary Citizen :Variations in Hong Kong's LGBT Activism after the Umbrella Movement. - 1 online resource (299 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-02, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2021.

Includes bibliographical references

Despite their shared goal of promoting "LGBT equality" in Hong Kong, the territory's activists engaged in differing forms of advocacy based on their social positions. Cantonese-dominant, ethnic Chinese, working-class "locals" focused on passing anti-discrimination legislation and an ordinance that would allow transgender Hongkongers to change their legal gender to reflect their gender identity. White and Western expatriates joined with middle-class and wealthy ethnic Chinese Hongkongers to create English-speaking "expat" organizations to fight for similar legislation, but their primary focus was the legal recognition of same-sex relationships. The complicated combinations of activists' daily language use, class, race, and place of origin created the categories of local and expat, which both shaped and were shaped by the forms of activism advocates took up.Local activists, attuned to the ways in which human rights discourse was used to differentiate Hongkongers from the mainland Chinese, sought to disrupt a hegemonic definition of the "ordinary citizen" that excluded LGBT people. Redefining themselves and the concept of ordinary citizenship, local activists adopted a local identity as a way to strengthen their connection to Hong Kong and Hongkongers. They simultaneously reserved human rights language and English for members of the Hong Kong government, international human rights bodies, and funding agencies who equated both forms of language with expertise. Expat activists, on the other hand, were often unaware of the work human rights discourse was doing among ordinary citizens. Their attempt at vernacularization through the direct translation of human rights law into Cantonese and written Chinese, was interpreted by the public as a turn to a foreign legal system that was incongruent with Hong Kong's traditional culture.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798534690330Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Cultural anthropology.
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