LGBTQ+ Activism in the Post-2020s China: Activists’ Resilience in Difficult Times
(2024) COSM40 20241Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University
- Abstract
- Since 2020, the crackdown on LGBTQ+ activism in China has further intensified. This thesis applied semi-structured interviews, online observation, and autoethnography, combined with framing theory and queer resilience theory, to analyze Chinese LGBTQ+ activists’ perceptions of and responses to current challenges. This thesis found that activists attribute the difficulties they encounter to government oppression, internal community issues, and attacks from counter-movements. These challenges result in mental stress, moral dilemmas, and disenchantment with the movement. Despite facing these difficulties, activists demonstrate resilience. This thesis argued that this resilience is related to the characteristics of activists’ diagnostic... (More)
- Since 2020, the crackdown on LGBTQ+ activism in China has further intensified. This thesis applied semi-structured interviews, online observation, and autoethnography, combined with framing theory and queer resilience theory, to analyze Chinese LGBTQ+ activists’ perceptions of and responses to current challenges. This thesis found that activists attribute the difficulties they encounter to government oppression, internal community issues, and attacks from counter-movements. These challenges result in mental stress, moral dilemmas, and disenchantment with the movement. Despite facing these difficulties, activists demonstrate resilience. This thesis argued that this resilience is related to the characteristics of activists’ diagnostic frameworks for their own situations, prognostic frameworks for coping strategies, and mobilization frameworks for future actions. Activists refuse to blame community members, prioritize solidarity, lower expectations for the future activism, adopt a pragmatic stance, reflect on past experiences, focus on present opportunities for action, embrace negative emotions, and emphasize the moral necessity of action. Additionally, the coping strategies they propose are inward-looking, seeing retreat as a way of making progress, which contributes to the self-care of activists and the maintenance of community vitality. This queer resilience is the driving force behind the sustainable development of China’s LGBTQ+ activism during difficult times. (Less)
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- author
- Wang, Yueqi
- supervisor
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- Jinyan Zeng LU
- organization
- course
- COSM40 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- LGBTQ+ activism, China, Queer, Activists, Resilience
- language
- English
- id
- 9164641
- date added to LUP
- 2024-06-17 13:49:22
- date last changed
- 2024-06-17 13:49:22
@misc{9164641, abstract = {{Since 2020, the crackdown on LGBTQ+ activism in China has further intensified. This thesis applied semi-structured interviews, online observation, and autoethnography, combined with framing theory and queer resilience theory, to analyze Chinese LGBTQ+ activists’ perceptions of and responses to current challenges. This thesis found that activists attribute the difficulties they encounter to government oppression, internal community issues, and attacks from counter-movements. These challenges result in mental stress, moral dilemmas, and disenchantment with the movement. Despite facing these difficulties, activists demonstrate resilience. This thesis argued that this resilience is related to the characteristics of activists’ diagnostic frameworks for their own situations, prognostic frameworks for coping strategies, and mobilization frameworks for future actions. Activists refuse to blame community members, prioritize solidarity, lower expectations for the future activism, adopt a pragmatic stance, reflect on past experiences, focus on present opportunities for action, embrace negative emotions, and emphasize the moral necessity of action. Additionally, the coping strategies they propose are inward-looking, seeing retreat as a way of making progress, which contributes to the self-care of activists and the maintenance of community vitality. This queer resilience is the driving force behind the sustainable development of China’s LGBTQ+ activism during difficult times.}}, author = {{Wang, Yueqi}}, language = {{eng}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, title = {{LGBTQ+ Activism in the Post-2020s China: Activists’ Resilience in Difficult Times}}, year = {{2024}}, }