The umbrella movement : civil resistance and contentious space in Hong Kong / / edited by Ngok Ma and Edmund W. Cheng [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910812141103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2019
• ISBN: 90-485-3524-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (355 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Global Asia ; ; 9
• Disciplina: 306.095125
• Soggetti: Protest movements - China - Hong Kong; Political persecution - China - Hong Kong; Human rights - China - Hong Kong
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020).
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong -- 1. From Political Acquiescence to Civil Disobedience. Hong Kong's Road to Occupation -- 2. Spontaneity and Civil Resistance. A Counter Frame of the Umbrella Movement -- 3. Rude Awakening. New Participants and the Umbrella Movement -- 4. Perceived Outcomes and Willingness to Retreat among Umbrella Movement Participants -- 5. Praxis of Cultivating Civic Spontaneity. Aesthetic Intervention in the Umbrella Movement -- 6. Creating a Textual Public Space. Slogans and Texts from the Umbrella Movement -- 7. From Repression to Attrition State Responses towards the Umbrella Movement -- 8. Protesters and Tactical Escalation -- 9. Mass Support for the Umbrella Movement -- 10. Correlates of Public Attitudes toward the Umbrella Movement -- 11. The Power of Sunflower. The Origin and the Impact of Taiwan's Protest against Free Trade with China -- 12. The Mirror Image. How does Macao Society read Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement? -- 13. Hong Kong Now, Shanghai Then -- Appendix. The Umbrella Movement-Chronology of Major Events -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume examines the most spectacular struggle for democracy in post-handover Hong Kong. Bringing together scholars with different ; disciplinary focuses and comparative perspectives from mainland China, Taiwan and Macau, one common thread that stitches the chapters is the use of first-hand data collected through on-site fieldwork. This study unearths how trajectories can create favourable conditions for the spontaneous civil resistance despite the absence of political opportunities and surveys the dynamics through which the protestors, the regime and the wider public responses differently to the prolonged contentious space. The Umbrella Movement: Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong offers an informed analysis of the political future of Hong Kong and its relations with the authoritarian sovereignty as well as sheds light on the methodological challenges and promises in studying modern-day protests.