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Take Back Our Future: An Eventful Sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement
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Take Back Our Future: An Eventful Sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement
Current price: $130.00
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Take Back Our Future: An Eventful Sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement
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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,
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.