The Dynamics of Peaceful and Violent Protests in Hong Kong

Lo, Sonny Shiu-Hing; Hung, Steven Chung-Fun; Loo, Jeff Hai-Chi

doi:10.1007/978-981-15-6712-4

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“…To suppress the social unrest, the Chinese central government introduced the Hong Kong national security law in June 2020. The legislation ultimately suppressed the protests (see Lo et al, 2021 for further details about the developments of the Anti‐Extradition Bill Movement).…”

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The role of university leaders in a political crisis: Students' perspectives from Hong Kong

Auld

2023

Higher Education Quarterly

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University students actively participated in the 2019 Hong Kong protests. In this context, the students expected that their universities would support their political stance.Drawing on data from interviews with student leaders, this article documents and examines students' expectations for their university heads, how they interacted and negotiated with university management and how university leaders variously responded to the students' expectations during the social movement. Noting the difficulties in reconciling conflicts over the positioning of the university amid strong political polarisation and social divisions in the society, this article argues that university leaders can only passively adapt to political unrest, and that such passive adaptation exemplifies university's vulnerability to political crises.

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The role of university leaders in a political crisis: Students' perspectives from Hong Kong

Auld

2023

Higher Education Quarterly

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“…While the government withdrew the extradition bill in September 2019, altercations between protesters and the police over the remaining demands turned increasingly violent throughout late 2019 (see Lo et al, 2021). In June 2020, the National People's Congress in Beijing escalated by passing a wide-sweeping National Security Law (NSL) that introduced anti-seditionist language into the annexe of Hong Kong's Basic Law.…”

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Hong Kong's Networked Agitprop: Popular Nationalism in the Wake of the 2019 Anti-Extradition Protests

Ismangil

Schneider

2023

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs

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Hong Kong's protest movements have created a repertoire of symbolism in artworks and artefacts that make statements about the political status of the city. This article analyses the protest art that emerged during the 2019 anti-extradition protests. We explore how actors produced a sense of “Hong Kong-ness” and distributed political meanings through networked agitprop: a form of strategic communication that links people and ideas together in both physical and digital contexts, through emotional appeals in the service of a grassroots political programme. By analysing examples of such agitprop, we show how the movement organically constructed networks of meaning to promote its ideas of people, nation, and even independence. However, we also find that the commitment to nationalist frames of reference ultimately prevents such art from re-imaging Hong Kong outside the confines of nations and that it even inadvertently reproduces the systems of power it ostensibly sets out to challenge.

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“…Therefore, its political system was affected by a democratic deficit that facilitated the progressive hatching of a political crisis that reached a climax in 2019. This scenario partially explains how the mobilisations that started with the opposition to a concrete government measure -the extradition bill-turned rapidly into a large-scale anti-authoritarian and pro-democratic mobilisation with revolutionary overtones (Lee et al, 2019;Lo et al, 2021;Serrano-Moreno and Osorio, 2023). Therefore, The Anti-ELAB case represents a massive politicisation in the context of growing authoritarianism.…”

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Ordinary citizens and political crises: The Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Movement (2019-2020)

Serrano Moreno

2023

REI

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This study focuses on the actions and perceptions of individuals who participated in the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti-ELAB) movement in Hong Kong initiated in April 2019 and interrupted by the covid 19 pandemic and the adoption of the National Security Law in June 2020. Based on semi-structured interviews, the article explains how ordinary citizens and first-time activists helped shape a political crisis and how it changed their political perceptions. The study adopts a theoretical perspective inspired by studies of collective action in contexts of political crises, placing the individual at the centre of the analysis and adopting a situational and processual approach. The findings show that the actors perceived themselves as protagonists of historical events produced by the authoritarian turn of the Hong Kong political system thanks to the appropriation of new identities, the radicalisation of their liberal values and the mobilisation of their previous skills and resources.

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The Dynamics of Peaceful and Violent Protests in Hong Kong

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The role of university leaders in a political crisis: Students' perspectives from Hong Kong

The role of university leaders in a political crisis: Students' perspectives from Hong Kong

Hong Kong's Networked Agitprop: Popular Nationalism in the Wake of the 2019 Anti-Extradition Protests

Ordinary citizens and political crises: The Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Movement (2019-2020)

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