【亞比中心系列講座】Protest Walls: Co-authoring Contentious Repertoires

Speaker： Yao-Tai Li  Senior Lecturer of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Australia

Host：Chang-Ling HUANG  Director of the GARC and Professor of the Department of Political Science， National Taiwan University

Time: April 22, 2025, 15:30-17:00

Organizer：Global Asia Research Center, National Taiwan University

Summary：Protest walls have played an important role in movement communication and mobilizing the public. This book focuses on contentious performances and the way diverse actors co-authored spaces into the protest walls that were seen in Hong Kong and other countries including Lebanon, Iraq, and Taiwan. We trace universal and localized aspects of the material and digital form of protest walls, political opportunity structures in place when they emerged, collaborative practices adopted by individuals to co-author a narrative of resistance in physical and discursive space, and the ritualized responses to protest walls including opposition. The contentious performances through and in the protest walls present a relationship between activists that does not exist in other types of performance such as petitions, marches, and occupations. Once created, protest walls become sites of dissent. They exist as a lexicon—a complex language of symbols and spatial practices.

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