Kamppailu identiteeteistä : identiteettiväittämät ja turvallisuusdiskurssi yhteiskunnallisten liikkeiden tukahduttamisessa ja oikeuttamisessa Kiinan kansantasavallassa

Authors

• Juha A. Vuori
• Lauri Paltemaa

Abstract

Using the Chinese Democracy Wall movement of 1978–1981 and the Student Democracy Move­ment of 1989 as case studies, this article deals with the repression and legitimization of social movements in an authoritarian political system. The theories of identity frames and securitization are combined to produce a framework that can be used to analyze and conceptualize rhetorical interaction between protest movements and authorities. This is an aspect that has been lacking in previous studies on the relationship between the state and social movements. The article shows how various identity frames produced by social movements and state authorities can be seen as attempts both to legitimize protest and to make it illegitimate through security discourse.