Take Back Our Future : : An Eventful Sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement / / ed. by Ming Sing, Ching Kwan Lee.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Chan, Chris K. C.,; Cheng, Edmund W.,; Chow, Alex Yong Kang,; Ho, Oscar,; Law, Wing Sang,; Lee, Ching Kwan,; Lee, Francis L. F.,; Sing, Ming,; Wu, Jieh-min,; Yuen, Samson,
• HerausgeberIn: Lee, Ching Kwan,; Sing, Ming,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (270 p.) :; 32 color photos, 4 charts

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Take Back Our Future: An Eventful Sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement
• 2. Prefigurative Politics of the Umbrella Movement: An Ethnography of Its Promise and Predicament
• 3. Transgressive Politics in Occupy Mongkok
• 4. The Spectrum of Frames and Disputes in the Umbrella Movement
• 5. Mediascape and Movement: The Dynamics of Political Communication, Public and Counterpublic
• 6. Where Have All the Workers Gone? Reflections on the Role of Trade Unions during the Umbrella Movement
• 7. How Students Took Leadership of the Umbrella Movement: Marginalization of Prodemocracy Parties
• 8. Hong Kong's Hybrid Regime and Its Repertoires
• 9. Protest Art, Hong Kong Style: A Photo Essay
• 10. Taiwan's Sunflower Occupy Movement as a Transformative Resistance to the "China Factor"
• Afterword. Hong Kong's Turn toward Greater Authoritarianism
• Contributors
• Index