「審判民主---後解嚴台灣的社會運動與文化政治」專書寫作計畫

Abstract

本書從多角度檢視台灣民主，而且透過民族誌研究法作第一手的觀察與分析其承 諾、掙扎、議題與阻礙。本書是社會運動世界發出的證言，以回應、評估與診斷台灣 的「民主」時代。民主生活在本書裡被視為是公民自我探索、檢驗與實現的過程，雖 然過程中充滿了不斷的提問與質疑，以檢視時時變動的價值觀與意義系統。研究抗議 現場、社運組織與個人經驗，本書紀錄不同面向的集體行動，視之為在民主的探索過 程中，長期追求自由、公民權與歷史性的社會掙扎。本書主要著重研究都市社會運動 團體與其他在地組織，這些組織在1980 年代末期興起，然後在1990 年代嶄露頭角。 從鬆散結構到組織完整的形式，這些草根行動展現不同的社會文化與政治的想像力， 以展望社會的未來轉變。

This book examines Taiwanese democracy from different angles and through ethnography of social movements –their promises, struggles, agendas, and obstacles. It is about testimonies voiced from the world of what were often called social movement groups and local collectives and made by their participants to respond to, re-evaluate, and resolve around the 「democracy」 era. A democratic life was seen in this book as processes in which the questions of self-exploration, self-evaluation, and self-realization on the part of its individual citizens were constantly posed in reference to ever shifting axes of values and meanings. By studying protests, social movement organizations and individual experiences, the book documents various moments of collective action as a result of long-term social struggle for liberty, citizenship, and historicity in the processes of the national search for democracy. The book mainly focuses on urban social movement organizations and neighborhood associations which began to emerge to the public space in the 1980s and flourished in the 1990s, situating them within a culture of protest in the making. Ranging from loosely-knit collective protests to well-structured organizations, these grassroots actions envisioned the change of society in terms of a variety of socio-cultural imaginations –some utopian, while others firmly grounded in either political and economic analyses or cultural criticism.