Take Back Our Future

An Eventful Sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement

Ching Kwan Lee, Ming Sing

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English

ILR Press
15 November 2019

History; Asian history; Sociology; Demonstrations & protest movements

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 and why had a world financial center known for its free-wheeling capitalism transformed into a hotbed of mass defiance and civic disobedience?

Take Back Our Future 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, Take Back Our Future 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.

Edited by: Ching Kwan Lee, Ming Sing
Imprint: ILR Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 907g
ISBN: 9781501740923
ISBN 10: 150174092X
Pages: 270
Publication Date: 15 November 2019
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Ching Kwan Lee is Professor of Sociology at the University of California-Los Angeles. She is author of The Specter of Global China. Ming Sing is Associate Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is author of Hong Kong's Tortuous Democratization.

Reviews for Take Back Our Future: An Eventful Sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement

Take Back Our Future marks a timely and necessary scholarly intervention that addresses both the internal movement dynamics and the wider structural contradictions that led to the rise and fall of the UM, allowing us to reflect on its theoretical and practical implications for Hong Kong and beyond. The volume's interrogation of the why and how of collective action in a hybrid regime marks a strong contribution to social movement studies. (Pacific Affairs)