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Book SynopsisIn 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 strategiespolitical disenfranchisement, economic subsumption, and identity reengineeringin 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. Al
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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.
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Table of Contents1. Take Back Our Future: An Eventful Sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement, by Ching Kwan Lee
2. Prefigurative Politics of the Umbrella Movement: An Ethnography of Its Promise and Predicament, by Alex Chow
3. Transgressive Politics in Occupy Mongkok, by Samson Yuen
4. The Spectrum of Frames and Disputes in the Umbrella Movement, by Wing Sang Law
5. Mediascape and Movement: The Dynamics of Political Communication, Public and Counterpublic, by Francis Lee
6. Where Have All the Workers Gone? Reflections on the Role of Trade Unions during the Umbrella Movement, by Chris K. C. Chan
7. How Students Took Leadership of the Umbrella Movement: Marginalization of Prodemocracy Parties, by Ming Sing
8. Hong Kong's Hybrid Regime and Its Repertoires, by Edmund Cheng
9. Protest Art, Hong Kong Style: A Photo Essay, by Oscar Ho
10. Taiwan's Sunflower Occupy Movement as a Transformative Resistance to the "China Factor", by Jieh-Min Wu
Afterword: Hong Kong's Turn toward Greater Authoritarianism, by Ming Sing
