Take Back Our Future

Ching Kwan Lee and Ming Sing

Description

In a comprehensive and theoretically novel analysis, Take Back Our Future unveils the causes, processes, and implications of the 2014 seventy-nine-day occupation movement in Hong Kong known as the Umbrella Movement. The essays presented here by a team of experts with deep local knowledge ask: how and why had a world financial center known for its free-wheeling capitalism transformed into a hotbed of mass defiance and civic disobedience?Take Back Our Future argues that the Umbrella Movement was a response to China's internal colonization strategies-political disenfranchisement, economic subsumption, and identity reengineering-in post-handover Hong Kong. The contributors outline how this historic and transformative movement formulated new cultural categories and narratives, fueled the formation and expansion of civil society organizations and networks both for and against the regime, and spurred the regime's turn to repression and structural closure of dissent. Although the Umbrella Movement was fraught with internal tensions, Take Back Our Future demonstrates that the movement politicized a whole generation of people who had no prior experience in politics, fashioned new subjects and identities, and awakened popular consciousness.

Sujets

• Histoire
• Sociology
• History of Asia
• Activism
• Hong Kong

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 15 novembre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781501740930
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

Extrait

TAKEBACKOURFUTURE

TAKEBACK OURFUTURE AnEventfulSociologyoftheHong Kong Umbrella Movement

EditedbyChingKwanLee and Ming Sing

ILR PRESS AN IMPRINT OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS ITHACA AND LONDON

Copyright © 2019 by Cornell University

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First published 2019 by Cornell University Press

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Names:Lee,ChingKwan,editor.|Sing,Ming,editor. Title:Takebackourfuture:aneventfulsociologyoftheHongKongUmbrella Movement / edited by Ching Kwan Lee and Ming Sing. Description:Ithaca[NewYork]:ILRPress,animprintofCornellUniversityPress, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers:LCCN2019006496(print)|LCCN2019009147(ebook)| ISBN95187|)bimob/pu(e79418057104IBSN79(pdf)|01740930 ISBN 9781501740916|:ht.klapap)rec(ol19671041805N97ISB| ISBN 9781501740923 (pbk.: alk. paper) Subjects:LCSH:UmbrellaMovement,China,2014.|Protestmovements— China—Hong Kong. | Civil disobedience—China—Hong Kong. | Democracy—China—Hong Kong. | Hong Kong (China)—Politics and government—1997– Classification:LCCJQ1539.5.A91(ebook)|LCCJQ1539.5.A91T352019(print)| DDC 322.4/4095125—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019006496

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Contents

Acknowledgments

1.  Take Back Our Future: An Eventful Sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement Ching Kwan Lee 2. ofthePoliticsrutavierPfegit:voMnemerbmUalle An Ethnography of Its Promise and Predicament Alex Yong Kang Chow 3.  Transgressive Politics in Occupy Mongkok Samson Yuen 4. trecSpeFrfoumdnasemaetupsiDthesinhT Umbrella Movement Wing Sang Law 5. lacitapscaneMiaedtn:hTedoMevemofPoliDynamics Communication, Public and Counterpublic Francis L. F. Lee 6.  Where Have All the Workers Gone? Reflections on the Role of Trade Unions during the Umbrella Movement Chris K. C. Chan 7.  How Students Took Leadership of the Umbrella Movement: Marginalization of Prodemocracy Parties Ming Sing 8.  Hong Kong’s Hybrid Regime and Its Repertoires Edmund W. Cheng 9.  Protest Art, Hong Kong Style: A Photo Essay Oscar Ho 10.  Taiwan’s Sunflower Occupy Movement as a Transformative Resistance to the “China Factor” Jiehmin Wu

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Acknowledgments

WearegratefulforthegeneroussupportoftheHongKongUniversityofSci ence and Technology and the University of California–Los Angeles. A faculty collaboration grant jointly run by the two universities allowed us to organize two workshops in Hong Kong where authors presented their drafts and gained valuable feedback from invited discussants. We also benefited from the insights of movement activists, documentary filmmakers, journalists, and scholars in related fields. For their input and encouragement, we thank Joshua Wong, Kinman Chan, Evans Chan, Tszwoon Chan, Mingsho Ho, YuenChung Chen, Mirana Setzo, Jeffrey Martin, Shunhing Chan, Thomas Davies, Stephan Ortmann, Lawrence Ho, and Ching Cheong. We are particularly indebted to Frances Benson, our visionary editor at Cornell University Press, for her ardent support of this project. It has been a delight to work with her and her colleagues Meagan Dermody and Karen M. Laun.

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