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

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Reaching the Ordinary Citizen: Variations in Hong Kong's LGBT Activism after the Umbrella Movement./
Author:	Madson, Nathan H.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
Description:	299 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-02, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-02A.
Subject:	Cultural anthropology. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27828531
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. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 299 p.

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

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

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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.

ISBN: 9798534690330Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122764
Cultural anthropology.
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