Finding the “Humanity” in Human Rights: LGBT Activists and the Vernacularization of Human Rights in Hong Kong
Finding the “Humanity” in Human Rights: LGBT Activists and the Vernacularization of Human Rights in Hong Kong
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10.1017/lsi.2021.24
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2021-07
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Nathan H. Madson
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作者：
Nathan H. Madson
通过对香港LGBT活动家争取性别承认条例（GRO）的民族志分析，该条例将简化跨性别香港人改变其法律的性别的过程，出现了一个悖论：为什么LGBT问题的人权框架是有问题的，当人权是当地人理解香港人意味着什么的核心？当地LGBT活动家对人权的本土化--或将国际人权法本土化为文化相关框架的过程--取决于将GRO的必要性重新定义为人道问题，而不是人权法。依靠在“普通公民”中引用人权法，违反了香港人谈论人权作为将香港与中华人民共和国其他地区区分开来的方法的现有方式。此外，这种区分的需要源自2014年雨伞运动，在该运动中，民主活动人士占领了香港多个城市中心长达79天。雨伞运动导致了一个转变，普通市民变得对彼此负责，捍卫香港的独特之处。最后，本土化进程要求更密切地关注当地谈论人权的方式。
Through an ethnographic analysis of Hong Kong LGBT activists’ fight for a gender recognition ordinance (GRO) that would simplify the process for transgender Hongkongers to change their legal gender, a paradox emerged: Why was a human rights framing of LGBT issues problematic when human rights were central to locals’ understanding of what it meant to be Hongkongers? Local LGBT activists’ vernacularization of human rights—or the process of localization of international human rights law into culturally relevant frameworks—hinged on reframing the need for a GRO as a matter of humanity, not human rights law. Relying on citations of human rights law among “ordinary citizens” violated the existing ways in which Hongkongers talked about human rights as a method of distinguishing Hong Kong from the rest of the People’s Republic of China. Furthermore, this need to differentiate emerged from the 2014 Umbrella Movement in which prodemocracy activists occupied various urban centers in Hong Kong for seventy-nine days. The Umbrella Movement caused a shift in which ordinary citizens became responsible for each other and defending what made Hong Kong unique. Ultimately, the vernacularization process requires closer attention to the ways in which human rights are being talked about on the ground.