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Dignity Discourses in Struggles for Basic Legal Freedoms in China

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dc.contributor.authorHalliday, Terence C
dc.contributor.authorLiu, Sida
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-13T04:08:38Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.date.updated2022-09-18T08:16:51Z
dc.description.abstractHow 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.en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn2052-9023en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/305659
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen_AU
dc.rights© 2021 The authorsen_AU
dc.sourceAsian Journal of Law and Societyen_AU
dc.subjectdignityen_AU
dc.subjectdiscourseen_AU
dc.subjectChinaen_AU
dc.subjectlawyersen_AU
dc.subjectproperty rightsen_AU
dc.subjectreligionen_AU
dc.titleDignity Discourses in Struggles for Basic Legal Freedoms in Chinaen_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue1en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage150en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage134en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationHalliday, Terence, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationLiu, Sida, University of Torontoen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidHalliday, Terence, u4789285en_AU
local.description.embargo2099-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor480301 - Asian and Pacific lawen_AU
local.identifier.absseo230401 - Civil justiceen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationa383154xPUB21180en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume8en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1017/als.2020.40en_AU
local.identifier.thomsonIDWOS:000681644900009
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.cambridge.org/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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