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moreICCS WPS 18 人民作爲一種修辭？——香港「反逃犯條例運動」中的民主與身份認同
Author/Speaker｜彭麗君
Publication Date｜2020-01
Abstract
“The people” might be the emptiest but also most powerful word in modern political lexicon. It can be used by politicians to justify all groundless proposals or criticisms, but it is also the foundation and source of legitimacy for all modern political institutions. As a pro-democratic movement, the 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests have been motivated by the enormous power of the term “Hongkongers.” But it inevitably calls our attention to the inherent tensions between collective identity and democracy, between exclusivism and the respect for differences. I want to point out in this presentation that while this movement might have continued to show the anti-mainlander tendencies inherent in society, it also radically opens up and diffuses the meanings of the “Hongkongers,” giving us valuable resources to continue to think about the project of democracy in Hong Kong.
Author's Bio:
PANG Laikwan is professor of cultural studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of a few books, including Building a New China in Cinema (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), Distorting Mirror (Hawaii, 2007), Cultural Control and Globalization in Asia (Routledge, 2006), Creativity and Its Discontents (Duke, 2012), The Art of Cloning (Verso, 2017), and The Appearing Demos (Michigan, 2020).
This working paper is withdrawn and not available online currently. An updated version of this article is to be published is in Issue 31 of Router: A journal of cultural studies.