Minoritised communities and Hong Kong’s ‘summer of uprising’: attitudes and engagement without citizenship

Bhowmik, Miron Kumar; Kennedy, Kerry John; Gube, Jan Christian C; Chung, Sau Kwan

doi:10.1080/14631369.2022.2120455

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“…Reporting on the attitudes of ethnic minority individuals and groups to the 2019 protests highlighted the intergenerational differences between youth and older members of the community [15].…”

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Identities in Troubled Times: Minoritized Youth in Hong Kong’s “Summer of Protest”

Kennedy,

Gube,

Bhowmik

2023

Societies

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Discursive experiences can contribute to shaping lives and their identities. For minoritized youth in Hong Kong, the 2019 protest movement provided many such experiences, although very little has been heard about them. Instead, reporting has focused on the experiences of the dominant Chinese population. This paper aims to highlight the voices of minoritized youth in relation to the social movement that dominated Hong Kong in the second half of 2019. It is well recognized that identity is not fixed and that there are more likely multiple identities that transition from one to the other. Yet little is known about the influences on identity formation and the processes that underlie them. This was the issue addressed here. The paper draws on Lacan’s theory of identity in examining interviews involving minoritized youth and their engagement in Hong Kong’s 2019 protest movement. It shows how individual responses to the movement differed, how the movement challenged identities, and how these challenges were resolved.

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Identities in Troubled Times: Minoritized Youth in Hong Kong’s “Summer of Protest”

Kennedy,

Gube,

Bhowmik

2023

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“Heroes and Villains”: Media Constructions of Minoritized Groups in Hong Kong’s Season of Discontent

Bhowmik,

Kennedy,

Chan

et al. 2023

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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Hong Kong witnessed unprecedented protests from June 2019 to early 2020. Drawing on frame analysis, this study explores the discourse and ideologies related to minoritized groups using multiple media sources. The findings revealed that there were multiple constructions of minoritized groups and their engagement in the protests: Niche/pro-democracy and liberal media were inclined to make “heroes” of their engagement while pro-China media seemed to revert to an older style of negative reporting portraying them as “villains.” The exploitation of minoritized groups for political purposes raises important issues about media ethics, “fake news,” and the role of ideology in news reporting.

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Religious Minorities in the 2019 Hong Kong Protests

Khalikova,

Yusupov

2024

The Journal of Asian Studies

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Based on a broader ethnographic study with Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh residents of Hong Kong, this article examines the role of minority religions, specifically Islam, in the 2019 Hong Kong protests. While the protests were dominated by the debates over the identities of Hong Kongers versus mainland Chinese, they also produced discussions over the positions and experiences of Hong Kong's “ethnic minorities,” many of whom are religious minorities. Often racialized and seen as outsiders by Han Hong Kongers, ethnoreligious minorities were reluctant to take sides out of worry for their livelihoods and fear of further marginalization. This sharply contrasts with the visibility of Christian communities in the protests. Christian leaders were publicly involved in prayer meetings and other forms of support for the protests, while the followers of minority religions either stayed away or organized prayer sessions in small, private settings. However, around October 2019, after a series of events described in this article, minorities either found themselves drawn into the protests or took the opportunity to participate to claim their Hong Konger identity. This held the potential to expand the political discourse and create a unified multicultural, multiracial identity of Hong Kongers. However, such aspirations were crushed against the walls of cultural-religious representation, and minorities felt that they remained misunderstood and unacknowledged as fellow citizens.

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Minoritised communities and Hong Kong’s ‘summer of uprising’: attitudes and engagement without citizenship

Cited by 3 publications

References 30 publications

Identities in Troubled Times: Minoritized Youth in Hong Kong’s “Summer of Protest”

Identities in Troubled Times: Minoritized Youth in Hong Kong’s “Summer of Protest”

“Heroes and Villains”: Media Constructions of Minoritized Groups in Hong Kong’s Season of Discontent

Religious Minorities in the 2019 Hong Kong Protests

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