Abstract
This paper speculates on the meaning of the 2016 candlelight rally from the perspective of Bakhtin. The purpose of this paper was to investigate the reappearance method that occurred during the 2016 candlelight rally through the carnivalesque. Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the carnivalesque was used to examine the unrestraint and liberty. According to Bakhtin’s carnivalesque, members of society try to resolve encountered problems through a carnival. Carnival is a festival in which people are temporarily liberated from their everyday lives and formal routines. The components of carnivalesque are ‘inversion’, familiarization’, ‘grotesque realism’, and ‘satire’. These elements were all present throughout the 2016 candlelight rally. Results of the ethnography revealed characteristics of a new civic culture including class-disruption, cultural festivalization and the offer of a new subject of protest. In conclusion, the 2016 candlelight rally was a way of recovering the positive subjectivity of civil rights.
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