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Changing Repertoires of Contention in Hong Kong: a Case Study on the Anti-Extradition Bill Movement / Chung, Hiu-Fung

Chung, Hiu-Fung	Journal Article
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Hong Kong ; Anti-Extradition Bill Movement

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Solidarity in the Anti-Extradition Bill movement in Hong Kong / Lee, Francis

Lee, Francis	Journal Article
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One important aspect of the 2019 Anti-Extradition Bill (Anti-ELAB) movement in Hong Kong is a high degree of solidarity between the movement’s moderate and radical flanks. The solidarity has contributed to the movement’s sustainability and played important roles in its dynamic evolution. This essay attempts to explicate how the solidarity has been produced, maintained, and negotiated. It first outlines the changing relationship between the moderate and radical flanks of the city’s pro-democracy movement since the 2000s. It then explicates the social, experiential, and discursive bases of solidarity in the first five months of the Anti-ELAB movement. It illustrates the role of – as well as the limitations to – an ethics of solidarity in managing conflicts in intra-movement debates. General implications of the analysis on studies of social movements are discussed.

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HongKong ; Social Movements ; solidarity ; Discursive Codification ; Anti-Extradition Bill Movement ; Pre-democracy Movement

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Sustainability of the Anti-Extradition Bill Movement in Hong Kong: Transformative Events and Regime Responses / Hu, Yuhan

Hu, Yuhan	Journal Article
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After the 2014 Umbrella Movement, the motivation for pro-democracy forces to successfully mobilise an active and large-scale social movement in Hong Kong fell into abeyance. However, the Extradition Law Amendment Bill provided a new impetus, and the 2019 Anti-Extradition Bill (Anti-ELAB) movement suddenly broke the silence, launching a series of protests and protester-police confrontations. This article aims to explore the sustainability of this movement up to the date that the extradition bill was withdrawn on 4 September 2019. The article identifies two transformative events that facilitated the intense escalation of the movement. The events suggest the issue of “police brutality” perceived by many Hong Kong people played a notable role in sustaining the movement. It also discusses how the ineffective tactics adopted by the Hong Kong government and police contributed to sustaining the movement. It argues that the proactive tactics implemented by the Hong Kong government in the Umbrella Movement were no longer capable of undermining the 2019 uprising.

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Hong Kong ; Social Movement ; Protests ; Anti-Extradition Bill Movement ; Transformative Events

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