英文摘要 |
Rather than embodying solidarity, many social protest movements have ended in internal schism. The Sunflower Occupy Movement of 2014, however, overcame the solidarity problem and resulted in what was to be an unprecedented protest in modern Taiwanese history in terms of both its duration and scale of mobilization. This movement involved a large number of social movement and nongovernmental organization (NGO) activists, who mobilized resources and devoted themselves wholeheartedly to supporting the 24-day occupation. The Sunflower Occupy Movement originated in a campaign against the Cross-Strait Services Trade Agreement (CSSTA) signed by the ruling Kuomintang government and the People's Republic of China in 2013. In the wake of that signing, social movement groups forged an umbrella organization, Democratic Front, to campaign against the CSSTA and played a pivotal role in the subsequent Sunfl ower Occupy Movement. This paper, employing an organizational perspective and using the Polish Solidarity Movement as a reference case, explains the origin of movement solidarity within the Sunfl ower Occupy Movement. Methodologically, we used a triangulation strategy composed of quantitative network analysis and qualitative in-depth interviews. The network analysis demonstrates trends in the cross-issue mobilization of the social movement sector and how intensifi ed co-operation led to a high level of coalition, which was indispensable for movement solidarity. Interviews with social movement activists illuminate the micro-processes and dynamics of network-formation, norm-making, and solidarization within the movement circle. The movement's master frame is constituted of ''defending democracy'' and ''fi ghting China,'' while adopting ''civil society'' as a collectiveaction frame. In these ways, we reconstruct the ''We-NGO narrative'' that activists invented during the movement to strongly express their mutual trust and collective identity. The Sunflower Occupy Movement represents not merely a student movement, but a series of large-scale protests of a broader and lasting civic movement. This paper thereby contributes to a deeper understanding of this eventful mobilization. |