March 2016

What is the Chinese New Left?: Between Leftism and Nationalism?

Brian Hioe
Perhaps one of the most significant intellectual formations operating in today’s world, China’s New Left arose in the 1990s in opposition to the turn of China away from a centrally planned economy and a return to free market principles after the Deng Xiaoping period. More broadly, the New Left project emphasizes the growing disparities between rural and urban areas in post-Deng China, the sacrifice of principles of equality in order to drive toward development, and calls for a critical revaluation of China’s Maoist legacy in light of China’s present—inclusive of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution....
EnglishMarch 2016Social MovementsTheory and History23 min read

重申「同性戀國家主義」與「粉紅清洗」：超越冷戰結構的帝國慾望？

Wen Liu
「Homonationalism」（同性戀國家主義）應該是近十年內酷兒學術最被快速沿用與再生產的一個概念，描述同志人權如何被收編於「衡量國家主權優良等級」的一種國際機制，在 2007 年 Jasbir Puar 出版《Terrorist Assemblages》一書之後引起廣泛的辯論與修正。由「同性戀國家主義」延伸而出，形容以色列如何藉由「國家同志人權」的友善形象，來掩飾國家對於巴勒斯坦殖民暴力的「粉紅清洗」（pinkwashing）策略，近幾年也激起了一連串的北美酷兒「反粉紅清洗」的 BDS（Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions）運動，抵制以色列藉由文化、經濟、外交等等手段的同志友善形象建立。這次中央性／別研究室所邀請至台灣演講的紐約史坦頓島學院特聘教授莎拉·舒蔓（Sarah Schulman），正是酷兒反粉紅洗清 BDS 運動的主要支持者之一。舒蔓的演說，加上美國同志人權大使蘭迪·貝瑞（Randy Berry）的訪台行程，也引起台灣酷兒學界與運動圈的討論，問題的核心在於，如同以色列，台灣是否也展露了渴望藉由「同性戀國家主義」的同志友善與人權表述來「攀附（美）帝國的慾望」？或者，更直接地說，Is Taiwan already homonational?...
March 2016Social MovementsTheory and History中文3 min read

Eagles of Revolution: A Tribute to Women in Marxism

Parson Young
International Women’s Day, now celebrated all over the world and adopted by the United Nations, has a Marxist origin. Originally, the labor movement in the United States and the Socialist Party of America started the holiday. It was first called the International Working Women’s Day, and its inaugural celebration was organized by Clara Zetkin, a prominent German Marxist and later a member of the Communist Party of Germany, on March 19th, 1911. The liberation of women from oppression under capitalist society has always been one of the top priorities of the Marxist revolutionary program, and past revolutionary struggles sent shock waves throughout the world, which substantially contributed to the progression of women’s rights across the globe. ...
EnglishMarch 2016Social MovementsTheory and History11 min read

從葉宜津到余宛如，從人口危機到性別危機──談幼托政策

Yen-Ting Edward Liu
討論社會政策脈絡時，社會問題的提出是討論社會政策的第一步。解決台灣當前面對嚴重的生育率過低人口問題與性別不平等問題中，托育政策扮演重要的角色。立法院開議不到一個月，葉宜津委員的兒少津貼與余宛如委員的立院友善托育環境主張，讓幼托政策的重要性再次浮上檯面。...
March 2016Politics中文0 min read

什麼是中國「新左派」：介於左派思想與民族主義之間？

Brian Hioe
中國的新左派可說是當代世界中最重要的知識分子群體之一，他們在 1990 年代因為反對中國在鄧小平時代過後放棄計畫經濟，轉向自由市場原理而竄起。更大程度上，新左派的研究課題著重於後鄧小平時期城鄉差距的持續擴大，以及為求發展而犧牲平等原則，並呼籲對毛澤東時代的遺產進行批判性再評價以回應當前局勢，其中包括大躍進和文化大革命。...
March 2016Social MovementsTheory and HistoryWilliam Tsai中文1 min read