After autonomy : a post-mortem for Hong Kong's first handover, 1997-2019 / / Daniel F. Vukovich

• Autore: Vukovich Daniel F.
• Pubblicazione: Gateway East, Singapore : , : Springer, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (184 pages)
• Disciplina: 320.015
• Soggetto topico: Revolutions; Autonomy and independence movements
• Soggetto geografico: Hong Kong (China) History
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Epigraph -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 In the Event: The Politics and Contexts of the 2019 Anti-ELAB Protests -- From the Umbrella to the Fishball 'Revolutions' -- From a City-State to a SAR on Fire: The 2019 Anti-ELAB and Its Aftermath -- Policing the Crisis? -- Colour Revolution and Quasi-Imperialism: Media and Money -- Notes -- 3 Basic Law, Basic Problems: Autonomy and Identity -- One System: Everything That Rises Must Converge -- Autonomy and Its Discontents -- Identity and Its Discontents -- Notes -- 4 Re-Colonization or De-Colonization? -- Towards Economic De-Colonization? -- Politics Not in Command: Political De-Colonization? -- Politics of Knowledge (Brief Reprise) -- Can the Parties Continue? Whither Participation? -- Notes -- 5 Coda: The Search for State Capacity After Covid and Zero-Covid -- On the State, During and After Colonialism -- The Fifth Wave: Incapacitation -- Towards a Second Handover, After the British and "Autonomy" Eras -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book offers a sharp, critical analysis of the rise and fall of the 2019 antiextradition bill movement in Hong Kong, including prior events like Occupy Central and the Mongkok Fishball Revolution, as well as their aftermaths in light of the re-assertion of mainland sovereignty over the SAR. Reading the conflict against the grain of those who would romanticize it or simply condemn it in nationalistic fashion, Vukovich goes beyond mediatized discourse to disentangle its roots in the Basic Law system as well as in the colonial and insufficiently postcolonial contexts and dynamics of Hong Kong. He examines the question of localist identity and its discontents, the problems of nativism, violence, and liberalism, the impossibility of autonomy, and what forms a genuine decolonization can and might yet take in the city. A concluding chapter examines Hong Kong's need for state capacity and proper, livelihood development, in the light of the Omicron wave of the Covid pandemic, as the SAR goes forward into a second handover era. Daniel F. Vukovich is tenured at Hong Kong University, a Visiting Professor of Politics at East China Normal University, and an Advisory Research Fellow at South East University, Institute for the Development of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics. His book Illiberal China: The Ideological Challenge of the P.R.C. was published by Palgrave in 2019. His first book was China and Orientalism (Routledge, 2012), and he publishes widely in inter-disciplinary post-colonial and global studies of China and the West
• Titolo autorizzato: After Autonomy
• ISBN: 9789811949838; 9811949832; 9789811949821
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910595060503321
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