Take Back Our Future: An Eventful Sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement

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 an...

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Weitere Verfasser: Lee, Ching Kwan (HerausgeberIn), Sing, Ming 1960- (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press [2019]
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)
Beschreibung:1 online resource (270 pages) 32 color photos, 4 charts
ISBN:9781501740930
DOI:10.7591/9781501740930

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