弱者身影：台灣解嚴前後農民抗議的姿態

The Weak have Their Strength: Peasants' Protest in the Greenteam's Documentaries

Three decades after Taiwan ended martial law rule and began a transition to democracy, documentaries offer a valuable insight into those turbulent times, clearly showing the passion of protesters taking their causes to the streets. As we look at their images, what memories do they evoke? What do the images tell us about those past years, the critical period, in modern Taiwan's history? In this article, I will look at visual archives produced by the Greenteam: the 1987 environmental movement against U.S. chemical firm Du Pont's plan to build a factory in Lukang, and 520 Incident (1988). The concept of gesture will be used as a tool to analyze the documentaries and the archives about the movements. The focus of this article is to discuss the significance of the protest gesture revealed in the images of those documentaries as well as the external factors that had led to such a gesture. By reading the images, the concept of habitus will be formed as to interpret the interrelations between the visible protest gesture and the invisible external factors.