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 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. "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." --Page 4 de la couverture This Book Explains The Contexts, Causes And Consequences Of The 2014 Hong Kong Umbrella Movement, A 79-day Mass Occupation Protest In One Of The World's Most Affluent Financial Centers-- Take Back Our Future : An Eventful Political Sociology Of The Hong Kong Umbrella Movement / Ching Kwan Lee -- Prefigurative Politics : An Ethnography Of The Promise And Predicament Of The Umbrella Protests / Alex Chow -- Transgressive Politics In Occupy Mongkok / Samson Yuen -- The Spectrum Of Frames And Disputes In The Umbrella Movement / Law Wing Sang -- Mediascape And Movement : Dynamics Of Political Communication, Public And Counterpublic / Francis Lee -- Where Have All The Workers Gone? Reflections On The Role Of Trade Unions During The Umbrella Movement / Chris K.c. Chan -- In The Shadow Of The Umbrella : Marginalization Of Hong Kong's Pro-democracy Parties / Ming Sing -- Hong Kong's Hybrid Regime And Its Repertoires / Edmund W. Cheng -- Protest Art, Hong Kong Style : A Photo Essay / Oscar Ho -- Taiwan's Sunflower Occupy Movement As A Transformative Resistance To The China Factor / Jieh-min Wu -- Afterword : Hong Kong's Turn Towards Greater Authoritarianism / Ming Sing. Edited By Ching Kwan Lee And Ming Sing. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.