摘要
Social movement scholarship has given considerable attention to the quieter periods when participants work to preserve their strength and consolidate their achievements, but less focus has been placed on how these legacies are harnessed for new protests. This article explores Taiwan’s Bluebird Action of 2024, examining how leaders selectively reused elements from the Sunflower Movement of a decade earlier to mount a powerful political protest. We theorize ‘reactivating’ as a form of movement-to-movement linkage that allows a subsequent movement to draw on the resources left by its predecessor. Reactivation is likely to occur when (1) there is a widespread perception of a similar threat, (2) activists re-engage their organizer networks, and (3) they mobilize former participants. This concept highlights that most movements are not entirely new creations but are often deeply indebted to those that came before them.