Changing Repertoires of Contention in Hong Kong: A Case Study on the Anti-Extradition Bill Movement

Chung, Hiu-Fung

doi:10.4000/chinaperspectives.10476

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“…Although non-normative political participation is against laws and social regulations, many Hong Kong people demonstrated high tolerance of illegal political actions against government and police in this social movement [ 60 ]. These illegal political activities, such as violent confrontation with police, were thought to be conducted to combat social injustice, despite its incalculable costs to socioeconomic development [ 61 ]. In this situation, young meaning-searchers are more willing to participate in both legal and illegal actions, regardless of their level of presence of meaning.…”

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Meaning-in-Life Profiles among Chinese Late Adolescents: Associations with Readiness for Political Participation

Lin

Shek

2021

IJERPH

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This study explored the association between meaning in life and readiness for political participation based on meaning-in-life profiles among Chinese late adolescents. A total of 1030 college students (mean age = 19.69 ± 1.47 years) in Hong Kong participated in this study. First, we used a cluster analysis to investigate meaning-in-life profiles based on two dimensions: “presence of meaning” and “search for meaning”. Furthermore, we investigated the association between meaning profiles and readiness for political participation. Results revealed three distinguishable profiles, which emerged in both male and female adolescents. Students with “high-presence” and “high-search” attributes and students with “low-presence” and “high-search” characteristics showed greater readiness to engage in normative and non-normative political actions than did those with a “high-presence” and “low-search” profile. Our research fills the research gap on meaning profiles in Asian adolescents and provides the empirical basis for an alternative account of youth political participation.

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Meaning-in-Life Profiles among Chinese Late Adolescents: Associations with Readiness for Political Participation

Lin

Shek

2021

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“…Besides yellow umbrellas and stickers, protesters have also organized the “yellow economic circle” formed by shops and businesses sympathetic to the movement. With this, the movement was able to continue with its everyday resistance through “political consumerism” (see Chung, 2020). All discussion threads on LIHKG containing any of these three themes at the height of the AEM during the second half of 2019 – specifying at 16 June to 31 December, 2019 – were extracted.…”

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“…A copious amount of writing has been produced about the politics of the AEM in a stunningly short time, mainly in political and urban sociology (e.g. Chung, 2020; Ho & Choi, 2020; Lee et al, 2019; 2020; Ku, 2020, Rühlig, 2020; Lam & Ibrahim, 2020; Li & Whitworth, 2021; Stott et al, 2021; Wong et al, 2021), but also in communication research (e.g. Feng et al, 2021; Lee, 2020b; Lee et al, 2021b; Ong, 2020) and cultural studies (e.g.…”

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Wild hopes: Sourcing the political vocabulary of digital citizenship from the LIHKG forum

Erni

Zhang

2022

International Communication Gazette

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In the 2019 Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill resistance movement, Hong Kong netizens used a popular digital platform known as LIHKG (連登) as a communicative center to exchange time-based information, express outrage or solidarity, and assemble decentered actions of agitation. There was an implied sense that LIHKG was facilitating a “wild” mode of politics oriented toward agitation, disturbance, and chaos. This paper examines its “wild politics” and asks: how might we trace the evolution of a complex political vernacular capable of creating a chaotic form of organizing, and what did this vocabulary tell us about the latent meanings, desires, and identity-making of the networked protesters? Utilizing the LDA topic-modelling method, we analyzed a large corpus of discussion threads on LIHKG to develop a customized domain-specific thematic repertoire, and revealed a “language in the wild” as part of a cultural archive that embodied the netizens’ ambivalent hopes.

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“…In the following months, peaceful demonstrations and radical actions often coexisted. Confrontations with the police, vandalism, arson, and violent conflicts between pro-government and pro-movement citizens also became increasingly common (Chung, 2020; Holbig, 2020). A longitudinal survey shows that the proportion of people who deemed radical actions reasonable and legitimate consistently stood at over 50% during the first 6 months of protests (Lee et al, 2019).…”

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Affective solidarity: how guilt enables cross-generational support for political radicalization in Hong Kong

Tang

Cheng

2021

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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The extant social movement literature tends to regard the youth as radical actors and senior citizens as conservative actors. However, the Anti-Extradition Bill Movement in Hong Kong exhibited strong solidarity among protesters across generations, despite the radicalization of protest actions over an extended period. These phenomena contradict Hong Kong's traditional political culture, which favors peaceful and orderly protests and the worldwide trend where radicalization often leads to internal division in movements. By analyzing the data collected from onsite protest surveys in December 2019 and January 2020 (N = 1,784), this paper presents the mediating role of guilt in shifting senior citizens from opposing radical actions to supporting them and feeling solidarity with militant protesters. We find that the relationship between age and feelings of guilt is stronger among respondents who experience state repression. The findings shed light on the affective and relational dimensions of protest participation, showing how the traumatic conditions under which different social actors are welded together by shared emotional upheavals facilitate ingroup identification and affective solidarity.

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Changing Repertoires of Contention in Hong Kong: A Case Study on the Anti-Extradition Bill Movement

Cited by 27 publications

References 18 publications

Meaning-in-Life Profiles among Chinese Late Adolescents: Associations with Readiness for Political Participation

Meaning-in-Life Profiles among Chinese Late Adolescents: Associations with Readiness for Political Participation

Wild hopes: Sourcing the political vocabulary of digital citizenship from the LIHKG forum

Affective solidarity: how guilt enables cross-generational support for political radicalization in Hong Kong

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