File Download

There are no files associated with this item.

  Links for fulltext
     (May Require Subscription)
Supplementary

Article: Performing artivism: Feminists, lawyers, and online legal mobilization in China

TitlePerforming artivism: Feminists, lawyers, and online legal mobilization in China
Authors
Issue Date2020
Citation
Law and Social Inquiry, 2020, v. 45, n. 3, p. 678-705 How to Cite?
AbstractIn authoritarian contexts where the state is the primary performer in the public sphere and legal mobilization is constrained and repressed, activists often seek to carve out a public space to confront the frontstage and backstage of the state's performance in order to pursue collective action. Comparing the online legal mobilization of feminist and lawyer activists in China, this article investigates how performance arts are used by activists to challenge the authoritarian state in the age of social media. Performing “artivism” is to create conspicuous spectacles in the public eye for the purposes of exposing the state's illegal or repressive backstage actions or promoting alternative values and norms different from the official ideology. By subversively disrupting the evidential boundaries set by the state, Chinese activists have been able to gain momentum and public support for their legal mobilization. However, it was precisely the success of their artivism that contributed to the government crackdowns on both feminists and lawyers in 2015.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/325493
ISSN
2023 Impact Factor: 1.4
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.534
ISI Accession Number ID

 

DC FieldValueLanguage
dc.contributor.authorWang, Di-
dc.contributor.authorLiu, Sida-
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-27T07:33:45Z-
dc.date.available2023-02-27T07:33:45Z-
dc.date.issued2020-
dc.identifier.citationLaw and Social Inquiry, 2020, v. 45, n. 3, p. 678-705-
dc.identifier.issn0897-6546-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/325493-
dc.description.abstractIn authoritarian contexts where the state is the primary performer in the public sphere and legal mobilization is constrained and repressed, activists often seek to carve out a public space to confront the frontstage and backstage of the state's performance in order to pursue collective action. Comparing the online legal mobilization of feminist and lawyer activists in China, this article investigates how performance arts are used by activists to challenge the authoritarian state in the age of social media. Performing “artivism” is to create conspicuous spectacles in the public eye for the purposes of exposing the state's illegal or repressive backstage actions or promoting alternative values and norms different from the official ideology. By subversively disrupting the evidential boundaries set by the state, Chinese activists have been able to gain momentum and public support for their legal mobilization. However, it was precisely the success of their artivism that contributed to the government crackdowns on both feminists and lawyers in 2015.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.relation.ispartofLaw and Social Inquiry-
dc.titlePerforming artivism: Feminists, lawyers, and online legal mobilization in China-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.description.naturelink_to_subscribed_fulltext-
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/lsi.2019.64-
dc.identifier.scopuseid_2-s2.0-85093821391-
dc.identifier.volume45-
dc.identifier.issue3-
dc.identifier.spage678-
dc.identifier.epage705-
dc.identifier.eissn1747-4469-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000552701800005-

Export via OAI-PMH Interface in XML Formats


OR


Export to Other Non-XML Formats