Dignity Discourses in Struggles for Basic Legal Freedoms in China

IF 0.6 3区社会学 Q2 LAW

Asian Journal of Law and Society Pub Date : 2021-02-01 DOI:10.1017/als.2020.40

T. Halliday, Sida Liu

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Abstract

Abstract How do dignity discourses shift the framing of struggles for basic legal freedoms? Based on our decade-long empirical research on lawyers and politics in China, we provide a theoretical intervention in a burgeoning socio-legal scholarship on dignity in this article. Drawing inductively from in-depth interviews, we find that a powerful current of dignity consciousness and sentiment, joined by an acute awareness of dignity harms, flows through the community of Chinese activist lawyers. Their dignity discourses can be witnessed and explained in four streams of awareness: (1) dignity experienced as an ideal in juridical, philosophical, and theological idioms; (2) dignity takings experienced indirectly and directly in the property takings of clients’ homes, farms, and livelihood; (3) assaults on dignity through property takings of spaces of religious worship; and (4) the takings of professional dignity from the lawyers charged with defending the dignity of others. This article points to the value of dignity framings in the general theory of collective action for basic legal freedoms.

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中国基本法律自由斗争中的尊严话语

尊严话语如何改变争取基本法律自由的框架?基于我们对中国律师和政治长达十年的实证研究，我们在本文中对新兴的关于尊严的社会法律学术提供了理论干预。从深度访谈中归纳，我们发现一股强大的尊严意识和情感，加上对尊严伤害的敏锐意识，在中国维权律师群体中流动。他们的尊严话语可以从四种意识流中得到见证和解释:(1)尊严在法律、哲学和神学习语中被视为一种理想;(2)间接和直接发生在对委托人的房屋、农场和生计的财产征收中;(三)侵占宗教活动场所财产侵犯尊严的;(4)对负责维护他人尊严的律师的职业尊严的剥夺。本文指出尊严框架在争取基本法律自由的集体行动一般理论中的价值。

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