M S Ho
Biographic Data
| ID | 52578 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M S Ho |
| GIVEN NAMES | M S |
| FAMILY NAME | Ho |
| SIGNATURE | HO M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Taiwan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6879-1783 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 199 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Fear of Queer Taiwan: Anti-LGBTQ Movement between Taiwan and the U.S. Religious Right By Ying-chao Kao
Green electricity cockroaches”: An environmental criminology of fraud, embezzlement, and bribery in Taiwan's renewable energy development
Editing the Encyclopedia of Taiwan Studies
From mobilization to aftercare: Movement trauma and care work for exiled Hongkongers
Reactivating a movement legacy: Taiwan’s political protests from Sunflowers to Bluebirds
Solidarity, democracy, or peace? Competing Taiwanese perspectives on the Russo-Ukrainian war
The Russo-Ukrainian conflict has intensified Taiwan's geopolitical concerns. While much discussion revolves around the reactions of major powers, this article scrutinizes how Taiwan's civil society and political leaders not only responded to the war but also actively shaped public opinion, steering debates in divergent directions. Our findings reveal a multifaceted and diverse array of reactions. There was widespread sympathy among Taiwanese citi…
Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora
Relational tactics and trust in high-risk activism: Anonymity, preexisting ties, and bonding in Hong Kong’s 2019–2020 protest
Trust, the belief that others will fulfill their expected obligations, is of vital importance to social movements. While most research focuses on how trust facilitates protests, this article examines how high-risk activism participants deploy various relational tactics to reduce uncertainties and risks. With an in-depth case study of Hong Kong’s protest movement in 2019–2020, this article finds anonymity, preexisting ties, and bonding are the thr…
Contentious Institutionalization of Protests under Democracy: The Evidence from Taiwan, 1986–2016
While many scholarly works are concerned with how social protests promote democratization, this article addresses the causally reverse question: how democratization shapes the landscape of street protests. We use a unique database of 31 years of protest events in Taiwan, a smooth and successful case of authoritarianism-to-democracy transition, to engage in a dialogue with political transition theory, the institutionalization thesis and networked …
Hongkongers' International Front: Diaspora Activism During and After the 2019 Anti-Extradition Protest
The flare-up of protests over Hong Kong's anti-extradition bill amendment in 2019 gave rise to a global wave of organising among the city's overseas diaspora of students and migrants, persisting after the city's protest movement declined due to COVID-19 and repression. Based on 85 in-depth interviews with overseas activists as well as journalistic and social media data on events in six cities, this article examines the diaspora's pro-democracy ca…
Movement meaning of money: Monetary mobilization in Hong Kong's prodemocracy movement
The resource mobilization (RM) theory has long discovered the significance of money for protests; yet can this insight be applied to nowadays' decentralized movements, characterized by the absence of organizational leadership and more creative and spontaneous participation from below? While the RM perspective is anchored in a political economy of organizational fundraising, it is time to bring in Viviana Zelizer's economic sociology to understand…
Tactical choices of diaspora movements: Comparing Hongkonger, Thai, Burmese, and Ukrainian mobilizations in Taiwan
Diaspora movements are campaigns launched by migrant minorities who maintain allegiance to their homelands. This article investigates the recent mobilization of the Hongkonger, Thai, Burmese, and Ukrainian diasporas in Taiwan to understand the factors behind their tactical choices. While the existing literature pays more attention to the protester-government interaction to understand how movement leaders decide on their movement strategy, we cont…
Effective Advocacy: Lessons from East Asia’s Environmentalists by Mary Alice Haddad
Modern environmentalism originated in the West, beginning when European and North American countries first began to experience the great transformation of industrialization and urbanization. East Asia is an eager learner of the Western modernity; in the last century, the region has mastered the art of manufacturing and emerged as the global export powerhouse. Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan are vibrant and stable democracies, whereas China enginee…
Aiming for Achilles’ Heel: A relational explanation of the ascendency of pro-nuclear activism in Taiwan, 2013-2020
Movement-countermovement dynamics have frequently been examined under the lenses of resource mobilization theory and political opportunity theory. This article develops a relational perspective, which is implicit in previous works and complementary to existing perspectives, to analyze how an initially weak countermovement expands and defeats its stronger opponent. The movement’s strength is not determined by its internal characteristics, but is c…
Evolutionary Governance in China: State–Society Relations under Authoritarianism. Edited by Szu-chien Hsu, Kellee S. Tsai, and Chun-chih Chang
Contemporary China is a rich context for social scientists developing new theories.A leading theme among these explorations is how the ruling elites cope with contending imperatives including fostering economic growth, minimising social conflicts, securing mass loyalty, and yet maintaining their monopoly of political power
Peddling the Revolution? How Hong Kong’s Protesters became Online Vendors in Taiwan
Desinicizing Taiwan
This article examines the historical development of Taiwanese identity from its origins in the era of Japanese colonialism, through postwar authoritarian rule, to its emergence as the driving force behind the island’s democratization. After the Communist takeover of mainland China, Taiwanese identity was an insurgent element challenging the island-based dictatorship of the Nationalists. But in the wake of a successful democratic transition, the i…
‘I became a Taiwanese after I left Taiwan’: Identity shift among young immigrants in the United States
Migration and transnationalism studies use variables such as migration trajectory, length of stay, and ties with origin country to examine migrant identities. Research has also found that contrary to the prediction of assimilation theory, some well-adapted migrants activate their origin country identities. Using young Taiwanese immigrants who stayed in Taiwan for most of their lives and went to the United States as a case, this article examines t…
Changing memory of the Tiananmen Incident in Taiwan: From patriotism to universal values (1989-2019)
This article examines the three-decade evolution of remembering the Tiananmen Incident in Taiwan by looking at annual commemorative activities. There is a decisive shift from a patriotic understanding to a cosmopolitan perspective grounded in universal values. The earlier memory was based on an ethnic nationalism that stressed consanguinity among Taiwanese and mainland Chinese and a narrative of the Chinese Republican Revolution. However, such fr…
Universities as an Arena of Contentious politics: Mobilization and control in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition movement of 2019
This article examines the role of university students during the anti-extradition movement in Hong Kong, analyzing their strategy to mobilize schools’ physical, symbolic, and interpersonal resources, and how the authorities reacted by restricting and redefining key resources. Universities have served as a safe space since police officers traditionally are not allowed to enter them. Some schools are also strategically located to allow for more dis…
The Sunflower Imagination: The Movement Perception and Evaluation from the Grassroots
How Protests Evolve: Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Movement and Lessons Learned From the Umbrella Movement
This article analyzes the Hong Kong’s 2019 anti-extradition movement and how it learned from the unsuccessful lessons of the 2014 umbrella movement. Existing theories, such as protest cycles, spillover, and abeyance provide inadequate explanations of the linkage between these two movements. This article contends that collective learning from the previous setbacks enabled Hong Kong’s protesters to launch a more challenging protest five years later…
From unionism to youth activism: Taiwan's politics of working hours
This article examines two major protests related to working-hour reforms in Taiwan in 2000 and 2016-18, paying particular attention to the shift in the composition of protesters from union members to youth activists. The decline in mass membership and the failure to consolidate a national federation have diminished the political presence of labour unions. The emergence of youth protest movements, both before and after the 2014 Sunflower Movement,…
The Institutionalisation of Social Movement Study in Taiwan
This article examines the reciprocal interaction between social movements and the academic research in Taiwan since the 1980s. Scholarly attention to social movements has been a multidisciplinary project to make sense of activism from below as well as to foster progressive changes. This article describes the development of this intellectual concern by identifying its founders and the subsequent participants. Secondly, this paper analyses 134 rela…
From mobilization to improvisation: The lessons from Taiwan’s 2014 sunflower movement
The recent global eruption of large protests calls for a rethinking of the question of movement participation. The conventional model of movement as organized mobilization led by pre-existing organizations and top–down leadership clearly fails as an adequate portrait. As an alternative, horizontality with its emphasis on direct democracy, decentralized decision-making, and prefigurative politics (the rejection of instrumental view of participatio…
Occupy Congress in Taiwan: Political Opportunity, Threat, and the Sunflower Movement
In opposition to a free trade pact with China, Taiwan's Sunflower Movement erupted in spring 2014 and occupied the national legislature for twenty-four days. Drawing from the recent debates on the relation between social movements and the state, I elaborate a revised polity model that focuses on the effects of elite disunity, threat, and movement strategy. The Sunflower Movement originated from a tactical misstep by the ruling party that created …
The Politics of Anti-Nuclear Protest in Taiwan: A Case of Party-Dependent Movement (1980-2000)
This essay tries to understand a particular pattern of the relation between social movement and political party. By analyzing the development of the anti-nuclear protest in Taiwan, the author puts forth the concept of party-dependent movement. This term denotes an awkward situation where the fate of a social movement is bound to the electoral performance of a certain political party. In Taiwan, the rise of anti-nuclear voice is closely related to…
How Protests Evolve: Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Movement and Lessons Learned From the Umbrella Movement
This article analyzes the Hong Kong’s 2019 anti-extradition movement and how it learned from the unsuccessful lessons of the 2014 umbrella movement. Existing theories, such as protest cycles, spillover, and abeyance provide inadequate explanations of the linkage between these two movements. This article contends that collective learning from the previous setbacks enabled Hong Kong’s protesters to launch a more challenging protest five years later…
Weakened State and Social Movement: The paradox of Taiwanese environmental politics after the power transfer
Of all the Chinese societies, Taiwan witnessed the first peaceful and democratic power transfer in 2000. With the coming to power of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), new political opportunity was opened up for environmentalists, who had been aligned with the DPP for more than a decade. Did the regime change provide a better milieu for synergy between environmental activists and state officials? Was a better style of environmental governanc…
Hongkongers' International Front: Diaspora Activism During and After the 2019 Anti-Extradition Protest
The flare-up of protests over Hong Kong's anti-extradition bill amendment in 2019 gave rise to a global wave of organising among the city's overseas diaspora of students and migrants, persisting after the city's protest movement declined due to COVID-19 and repression. Based on 85 in-depth interviews with overseas activists as well as journalistic and social media data on events in six cities, this article examines the diaspora's pro-democracy ca…
Challenging State Corporatism: The Politics of Taiwan's Labor Federation Movement
Taiwan's State and Social Movements Under the DPP Government, 2000–2004
This article explores the evolution of social movement politics under the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government (2000–2004) by using the perspective of political opportunity structure. Recent “contentious politics” in Taiwan is analyzed in terms of four changing dimensions of the opportunity structure. First, the DPP government opens some policy channels , and social movement activists are given chances to work within the institution. Yet…
Understanding the Trajectory of Social Movements in Taiwan (1980–2010)
Introduction to Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 3/2010: Social Movements in Contemporary Taiwan
From mobilization to improvisation: The lessons from Taiwan’s 2014 sunflower movement
The recent global eruption of large protests calls for a rethinking of the question of movement participation. The conventional model of movement as organized mobilization led by pre-existing organizations and top–down leadership clearly fails as an adequate portrait. As an alternative, horizontality with its emphasis on direct democracy, decentralized decision-making, and prefigurative politics (the rejection of instrumental view of participatio…
Changing memory of the Tiananmen Incident in Taiwan: From patriotism to universal values (1989-2019)
This article examines the three-decade evolution of remembering the Tiananmen Incident in Taiwan by looking at annual commemorative activities. There is a decisive shift from a patriotic understanding to a cosmopolitan perspective grounded in universal values. The earlier memory was based on an ethnic nationalism that stressed consanguinity among Taiwanese and mainland Chinese and a narrative of the Chinese Republican Revolution. However, such fr…
Contested governance between politics and professionalism in Taiwan
This essay critically examines the evolution of the environmental impact assessment (EIA) in Taiwan. The 'American-style' EIA was originally introduced in Taiwan as an economic policy-making instrument. During the 1980s, grassroots environmental protests rose. The state first met the popular opposition by denying their professional status, and then sought a more peaceful resolution by upgrading the EIA. In 1994, owing to the combined effects of m…
Movement Parties in Taiwan, 1987–2016
This article examines the development of “movement parties” in Taiwan by applying the political opportunity perspective to understand how external conditions impacted their electoral path. We explain the rise and fall of movement parties by changes in electoral system, level of movement activism, and the permeability of the DPP
The Fukushima effect: Explaining the resurgence of the anti-nuclear movement in Taiwan
Taiwan’s anti-nuclear movement has a chequered history over the past three decades; its revival after the 2011 Fukushima incident was unanticipated. Analysing the political outcomes triggered by a major international disaster, I argue that Japan’s nuclear catastrophe did not directly stimulate Taiwanese activism, but its effect was relayed through a host of domestic factors. The persistent efforts of anti-nuclear activists after their 2001 defeat…
Aiming for Achilles’ Heel: A relational explanation of the ascendency of pro-nuclear activism in Taiwan, 2013-2020
Movement-countermovement dynamics have frequently been examined under the lenses of resource mobilization theory and political opportunity theory. This article develops a relational perspective, which is implicit in previous works and complementary to existing perspectives, to analyze how an initially weak countermovement expands and defeats its stronger opponent. The movement’s strength is not determined by its internal characteristics, but is c…
Relational tactics and trust in high-risk activism: Anonymity, preexisting ties, and bonding in Hong Kong’s 2019–2020 protest
Trust, the belief that others will fulfill their expected obligations, is of vital importance to social movements. While most research focuses on how trust facilitates protests, this article examines how high-risk activism participants deploy various relational tactics to reduce uncertainties and risks. With an in-depth case study of Hong Kong’s protest movement in 2019–2020, this article finds anonymity, preexisting ties, and bonding are the thr…
From unionism to youth activism: Taiwan's politics of working hours
This article examines two major protests related to working-hour reforms in Taiwan in 2000 and 2016-18, paying particular attention to the shift in the composition of protesters from union members to youth activists. The decline in mass membership and the failure to consolidate a national federation have diminished the political presence of labour unions. The emergence of youth protest movements, both before and after the 2014 Sunflower Movement,…
Co-Opting Social Ties: How the Taiwanese Petrochemical Industry Neutralized Environmental Opposition
This article seeks to understand how social ties can be manipulated by industrial producers in such a way that local opposition to pollution is neutralized. Social movement researchers argue that mobilization cannot proceed without pre-existing social ties, and further reflection suggests the nature of social ties is tremendously consequential. Clientelist ties are characterized by mass dependence and cooperation as beneficiaries expect favors fr…
Manufacturing Loyalty: The Political Mobilization of Labor in Taiwan, 1950—1986
Authoritarianism expects workers to play the dual role of diligent producers and loyal citizens simultaneously. In extreme cases, workers must demonstrate political commitment in their everyday life. This article analyzes Taiwanese sugar refinery workers to understand the dynamics of political mobilization under the Nationalists. In the name of anti-communism, a series of control mechanisms were installed in nationalized workplaces. Workers were …
Control by Containment: The Politics of Institutionalizing Pollution Disputes in Taiwan
Democratization entails the political incorporation of pollution victims whose subsistence rights have been sacrificed in the single-minded pursuit of economic growth. Newly democratized regimes have instituted mechanisms of environmental governance with varying degrees of success. This paper analyzes the process in which pollution disputes are channeled through legal procedures, by looking at Taiwan's Public Nuisance Disputes Mediation Act (PNDM…
Protest as Community Revival: Folk Religion in a Taiwanese Anti-Pollution Movement
By analyzing a Taiwanese anti-pollution movement, this paper tries to shed light on the elements of folk religion in collective action. The Houchin protest took place in 1987 when local people opposed to the further expansion of the China Petroleum Company (CPC). This case is an important milestone in the history of Taiwanese environmentalism and famous for its persistent protest over three years. In order to see how a local community sustains it…
From mobilization to aftercare: Movement trauma and care work for exiled Hongkongers
Tactical choices of diaspora movements: Comparing Hongkonger, Thai, Burmese, and Ukrainian mobilizations in Taiwan
Diaspora movements are campaigns launched by migrant minorities who maintain allegiance to their homelands. This article investigates the recent mobilization of the Hongkonger, Thai, Burmese, and Ukrainian diasporas in Taiwan to understand the factors behind their tactical choices. While the existing literature pays more attention to the protester-government interaction to understand how movement leaders decide on their movement strategy, we cont…
Taiwan's Anti-Nuclear Movement: The Making of a Militant Citizen Movement
Social movement studies have constantly focused on research relating to movement strategy, without reaching a consensus on the most viable strategies for realising a movement's goal. Instead of conceptualising movement strategy as merely a product of movement leaders' rational calculations, this article analyses a case of strategy shift attributable to leadership replacement and unexpected events. This article examines the significant breakthroug…
Making an Opportunity: Strategic Bipartisanship in Taiwan’s Environmental Movement
The debate over 'political opportunity structure' has been a central issue in the contemporary social movement study. This article seeks to move beyond the structure/agency dispute by looking at how social movements make an opportunity by transforming an initially unfavorable political structure. I analyze Taiwan's environmentalism, particularly the anti-Kuokuang Petrochemical Park movement (2005-2011) and the post-Fukushima antinuclear movement …
Challenging New Conservative Regimes in South Korea and Taiwan
This article compares anti-American beef politics in South Korea (2008) and Taiwan (2009) to solve the puzzle of why two similar social protests resulted in dissimilar outcomes. Given the highly comparable political contexts of conservative ascendancy, we argue that cultural factors determined the movement trajectories. The presence of anti-Americanism and the centrality of beef in the national diet produced a strong anti-government movement in K…
The Politics of Anti-Nuclear Protest in Taiwan: A Case of Party-Dependent Movement (1980-2000)
This essay tries to understand a particular pattern of the relation between social movement and political party. By analyzing the development of the anti-nuclear protest in Taiwan, the author puts forth the concept of party-dependent movement. This term denotes an awkward situation where the fate of a social movement is bound to the electoral performance of a certain political party. In Taiwan, the rise of anti-nuclear voice is closely related to…
Contested governance between politics and professionalism in Taiwan
This essay critically examines the evolution of the environmental impact assessment (EIA) in Taiwan. The 'American-style' EIA was originally introduced in Taiwan as an economic policy-making instrument. During the 1980s, grassroots environmental protests rose. The state first met the popular opposition by denying their professional status, and then sought a more peaceful resolution by upgrading the EIA. In 1994, owing to the combined effects of m…
Taiwan's State and Social Movements Under the DPP Government, 2000–2004
This article explores the evolution of social movement politics under the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government (2000–2004) by using the perspective of political opportunity structure. Recent “contentious politics” in Taiwan is analyzed in terms of four changing dimensions of the opportunity structure. First, the DPP government opens some policy channels , and social movement activists are given chances to work within the institution. Yet…
Protest as Community Revival: Folk Religion in a Taiwanese Anti-Pollution Movement
By analyzing a Taiwanese anti-pollution movement, this paper tries to shed light on the elements of folk religion in collective action. The Houchin protest took place in 1987 when local people opposed to the further expansion of the China Petroleum Company (CPC). This case is an important milestone in the history of Taiwanese environmentalism and famous for its persistent protest over three years. In order to see how a local community sustains it…
Weakened State and Social Movement: The paradox of Taiwanese environmental politics after the power transfer
Of all the Chinese societies, Taiwan witnessed the first peaceful and democratic power transfer in 2000. With the coming to power of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), new political opportunity was opened up for environmentalists, who had been aligned with the DPP for more than a decade. Did the regime change provide a better milieu for synergy between environmental activists and state officials? Was a better style of environmental governanc…
Challenging State Corporatism: The Politics of Taiwan's Labor Federation Movement
Control by Containment: The Politics of Institutionalizing Pollution Disputes in Taiwan
Democratization entails the political incorporation of pollution victims whose subsistence rights have been sacrificed in the single-minded pursuit of economic growth. Newly democratized regimes have instituted mechanisms of environmental governance with varying degrees of success. This paper analyzes the process in which pollution disputes are channeled through legal procedures, by looking at Taiwan's Public Nuisance Disputes Mediation Act (PNDM…
Understanding the Trajectory of Social Movements in Taiwan (1980–2010)
Introduction to Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 3/2010: Social Movements in Contemporary Taiwan
An Institutionalist Explanation of the Evolution of Taiwan's Disability Movement: From the Charity Model to the Social Model
In this article, we analyze the process of institutional change in Taiwan's disability field by focusing on the role of social movements. An institutional perspective emphasizes how a particular logic in an organizational field generates formal and informal institutions that define how persons with disabilities are treated in a society. Before the 1990s, the charity model was dominant, and later it came to be challenged by the disability movement…
Co-Opting Social Ties: How the Taiwanese Petrochemical Industry Neutralized Environmental Opposition
This article seeks to understand how social ties can be manipulated by industrial producers in such a way that local opposition to pollution is neutralized. Social movement researchers argue that mobilization cannot proceed without pre-existing social ties, and further reflection suggests the nature of social ties is tremendously consequential. Clientelist ties are characterized by mass dependence and cooperation as beneficiaries expect favors fr…
Manufacturing Loyalty: The Political Mobilization of Labor in Taiwan, 1950—1986
Authoritarianism expects workers to play the dual role of diligent producers and loyal citizens simultaneously. In extreme cases, workers must demonstrate political commitment in their everyday life. This article analyzes Taiwanese sugar refinery workers to understand the dynamics of political mobilization under the Nationalists. In the name of anti-communism, a series of control mechanisms were installed in nationalized workplaces. Workers were …
Introduction: Neoliberalism, Social Movements, and the Environment in Taiwan
This special issue of CNS presents a set of articles on neoliberalism,1 social movements, and the environment in Taiwan. It brings together four articles by Taiwanese scholars that document and ana
The Humanist Challenge in Taiwan's Education: Liberation, Social Justice and Ecology
Education must respect persons and make developing the whole person its sole goal. Only when people come to understand that the “person” is its goal, and cannot be reduced to a means of servicing o
Challenging New Conservative Regimes in South Korea and Taiwan
This article compares anti-American beef politics in South Korea (2008) and Taiwan (2009) to solve the puzzle of why two similar social protests resulted in dissimilar outcomes. Given the highly comparable political contexts of conservative ascendancy, we argue that cultural factors determined the movement trajectories. The presence of anti-Americanism and the centrality of beef in the national diet produced a strong anti-government movement in K…
Sponsoring Civil Society: State and Community Movement in Taiwan
This article contributes to the growing literature on the synergic production of civil society in newly democratized countries. State sponsorship can be effective when clientelism, as a form of social dominance, continues to frustrate purposive organization from below. Three elements are necessary for this scenario. First, a group of reform-minded officials must be able to pursue an independent agenda that deviates from local elites. Second, refo…
From Resistance to Accommodation: Taiwanese Working Class in the Early Postwar Era (1945-55)
This article explores Taiwan's worker activism in the early postwar era (1945–55) in the attempt to revise the received perception of labour quiescence under high authoritarianism. Rather than a passive victim of state repression, workers mounted two rounds of resistance, first in the form of factory-defending worker-militias during the February 28 Incident of 1947 and later in the subsequent clandestine communist movement. With the case of sugar…
The Fukushima effect: Explaining the resurgence of the anti-nuclear movement in Taiwan
Taiwan’s anti-nuclear movement has a chequered history over the past three decades; its revival after the 2011 Fukushima incident was unanticipated. Analysing the political outcomes triggered by a major international disaster, I argue that Japan’s nuclear catastrophe did not directly stimulate Taiwanese activism, but its effect was relayed through a host of domestic factors. The persistent efforts of anti-nuclear activists after their 2001 defeat…
State Corporatism
State corporatism, which encompasses the long‐standing theory and practice of interest organizing, is a form of authoritarian control where the government preemptively organizes social members into exclusive associations claiming to be their sole legitimate representative. The modern definition of the concept was coined in a 1974 article by Phillipe C. Schmitter who saw it as a system of representation of political and economic interests, althoug…
Occupy Congress in Taiwan: Political Opportunity, Threat, and the Sunflower Movement
In opposition to a free trade pact with China, Taiwan's Sunflower Movement erupted in spring 2014 and occupied the national legislature for twenty-four days. Drawing from the recent debates on the relation between social movements and the state, I elaborate a revised polity model that focuses on the effects of elite disunity, threat, and movement strategy. The Sunflower Movement originated from a tactical misstep by the ruling party that created …
Grano, Simona A: Environmental Governance in Taiwan: A New Generation ofActivists and Stakeholders
Making an Opportunity: Strategic Bipartisanship in Taiwan’s Environmental Movement
The debate over 'political opportunity structure' has been a central issue in the contemporary social movement study. This article seeks to move beyond the structure/agency dispute by looking at how social movements make an opportunity by transforming an initially unfavorable political structure. I analyze Taiwan's environmentalism, particularly the anti-Kuokuang Petrochemical Park movement (2005-2011) and the post-Fukushima antinuclear movement …
Movement Parties in Taiwan, 1987–2016
This article examines the development of “movement parties” in Taiwan by applying the political opportunity perspective to understand how external conditions impacted their electoral path. We explain the rise and fall of movement parties by changes in electoral system, level of movement activism, and the permeability of the DPP
The Institutionalisation of Social Movement Study in Taiwan
This article examines the reciprocal interaction between social movements and the academic research in Taiwan since the 1980s. Scholarly attention to social movements has been a multidisciplinary project to make sense of activism from below as well as to foster progressive changes. This article describes the development of this intellectual concern by identifying its founders and the subsequent participants. Secondly, this paper analyses 134 rela…
From mobilization to improvisation: The lessons from Taiwan’s 2014 sunflower movement
The recent global eruption of large protests calls for a rethinking of the question of movement participation. The conventional model of movement as organized mobilization led by pre-existing organizations and top–down leadership clearly fails as an adequate portrait. As an alternative, horizontality with its emphasis on direct democracy, decentralized decision-making, and prefigurative politics (the rejection of instrumental view of participatio…
Taiwan's Anti-Nuclear Movement: The Making of a Militant Citizen Movement
Social movement studies have constantly focused on research relating to movement strategy, without reaching a consensus on the most viable strategies for realising a movement's goal. Instead of conceptualising movement strategy as merely a product of movement leaders' rational calculations, this article analyses a case of strategy shift attributable to leadership replacement and unexpected events. This article examines the significant breakthroug…
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