Introduction

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ngok Ma ◽  
Edmund W. Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Student Movements ◽  
Hybrid Regimes ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Civil Resistance ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Hybrid Regime

Analysis of the 2014 Umbrella Movement speaks to three strands of academic literature: contentious politics and space, hybrid regimes and democratization, and social movements in China and Hong Kong. Based mostly on fieldwork conducted during the occupation, this book brings together 14 experts who studied the Umbrella Movement from different theoretical perspectives with different methodologies. The studies in the book analyze the occupation as a spontaneous and emotional contentious action, which made good use of public space and creative passion. They also show how civil resistance was shaped and constrained by the hybrid regime and situate the Hong Kong movement in a broader comparative perspective in reference to past student movements in China and protests in Taiwan and Macau.

From Repression to Attrition

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samson Yuen
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Hybrid Regimes ◽  
Political Opportunities ◽  
Offensive Tactics ◽  
Hybrid Regime ◽  
Legal Interventions ◽  
Potential Use

The Umbrella Movement displayed an unprecedented spectacle of resistance and brought Hong Kong under worldwide attention. This chapter demonstrates how the city’s hybrid regime adaptively switched its response to this protest from repression to attrition, after police repression catalyzed heightened mobilization. This strategy of attrition entailed an array of defensive and offensive tactics that extended beyond ignoring protests. By switching to this strategy, the regime actively sought to maintain elite cohesion and block political opportunities while leveraging countermovements and legal interventions to increase the participation cost of the protests and mobilize public discontent. Despite resistance from protesters, the success of attrition suggests its potential use by hybrid regimes as an effective regime response and a flexible holder of tactics.

scholarly journals Marketing, art and voices of dissent

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgios Patsiaouras ◽  
Anastasia Veneti ◽  
William Green
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Marketing Theory ◽  
Audience Engagement ◽  
Protest Art ◽  
Arts Marketing

Limited research exists around the interrelationships between protest camps and marketing practices. In this article, we focus on the 2014 Hong Kong protest camps as a context where artistic work was innovatively developed and imaginatively promoted to draw global attention. Collecting and analysing empirical data from the Umbrella Movement, our findings explore the interrelationships between arts marketing technologies and the creativity and artistic expression of the protest camps so as to inform, update and rethink arts marketing theory itself. We discuss how protesters used public space to employ inventive methods of audience engagement, participation and co-creation of artwork, together with media art projects which aimed not only to promote their collective aims but also to educate and inform citizens. While some studies have already examined the function of arts marketing beyond traditional and established artistic institutions, our findings offer novel insights into the promotional techniques of protest art within the occupied space of a social movement. Finally, we suggest avenues for future research around the artwork of social movements that could highlight creative and political aspects of (arts) marketing theory.

scholarly journals Advances in social movement theory since the global financial crisis

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 376-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene Nulman ◽  
Raphael Schlembach
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Occupy Movement ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

The social movement literature in Western Europe and North America has oriented much of its theoretical work towards micro-, meso-, and macro-level examinations of its subject of study but has rarely integrated these levels of analysis. This review article broadly documents the leading theoretical perspectives on social movements, while highlighting the contributions made in recent years with regard to the wave of protests across the globe – typified by the Occupy Movement and the ‘Arab Spring’ – and grievances that are relatively novel in qualitative or quantitative form such as austerity, precarity, and a sense of democratic deficiency. While these novel social processes have invigorated the specialized arena of ‘social movement studies’ and generated a resurgence of work on social movements beyond the field, this article argues for the need to interconnect levels of analysis in order to develop a more insightful account of contemporary contentious politics.

Democracy and Distrust

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 887-889 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe C. Schmitter
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Democratic Theory ◽  
Party Politics ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Democratic State

Pierre Rosanvallon is one of the most important political theorists writing in French. Counter-Democracy: Politics in an Age of Distrust is a book about the limits of conventional understandings of democracy. Rosanvallon argues that while most theories of democracy focus on institutionalized forms of political participation (especially elections), the vitality of democracy rests equally on forms of “counter-democracy” through which citizens dissent, protest, and exert pressure from without on the democratic state. This argument is relevant to the concerns of a broad range of political scientists, most especially students of democratic theory, electoral and party politics, social movements, social capital, and “contentious politics.” The goal of this symposium is to invite a number of political scientists who work on these issues to comment on the book from their distinctive disciplinary, methodological, and theoretical perspectives.—Jeffrey C. Isaac, Editor

Democracy and Distrust

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 890-892 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donatella della Porta
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Democratic Theory ◽  
Party Politics ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Democratic State

Pierre Rosanvallon is one of the most important political theorists writing in French. Counter-Democracy: Politics in an Age of Distrust is a book about the limits of conventional understandings of democracy. Rosanvallon argues that while most theories of democracy focus on institutionalized forms of political participation (especially elections), the vitality of democracy rests equally on forms of “counter-democracy” through which citizens dissent, protest, and exert pressure from without on the democratic state. This argument is relevant to the concerns of a broad range of political scientists, most especially students of democratic theory, electoral and party politics, social movements, social capital, and “contentious politics.” The goal of this symposium is to invite a number of political scientists who work on these issues to comment on the book from their distinctive disciplinary, methodological, and theoretical perspectives.—Jeffrey C. Isaac, Editor

State-Society Conflicts under Hong Kong's Hybrid Regime

Asian Survey ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 53 (5) ◽  
pp. 854-882 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian C. H. Fong
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
Hybrid Regimes ◽  
Business Elites ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Intermediary Role ◽  
Hybrid Regime

Similar to its colonial predecessor, the post-colonial Hong Kong state relies on its business allies to mediate state-society relations. Nevertheless, because of the erosion of the intermediary role of business elites, the state-business alliance now struggles to accommodate the rising challenges of civil society. The case of Hong Kong offers an interesting case study to the literature on hybrid regimes.

scholarly journals Street Politics in a Hybrid Regime: The Diffusion of Political Activism in Post-colonial Hong Kong

2016 ◽  
Vol 226 ◽  
pp. 383-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edmund W. Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
Hybrid Regimes ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Public ◽  
Street Politics ◽  
Participation Costs ◽  
Hybrid Regime ◽  
Institutional Foundations

AbstractThis paper examines the diffusion of activism in post-colonial Hong Kong through the lens of the political regime and eventful analysis. It first reveals the institutional foundations of the hybrid regime that allowed the creation of a nascent movement society. It then explains how the historic 1 July rally in 2003 and a series of critical events since 2006 have led to a shift in scale and the public staging of street politics. A time-series analysis and onsite survey further capture the dynamics that spawned the collective recognition of grievances and reduced participation costs, leading to the Umbrella Movement. While the spontaneous, voluntary and decentralized organizational structure sustained protest momentum, the regime has adopted hybrid strategies to counter-mobilize bottom-up activism. The result is widening contention between the state and civil society and within civil society, or the coexistence of regime instability and regime longevity, a trend that is increasingly common in hybrid regimes encountering mass protests.

Democracy and Distrust

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 892-895 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark E. Warren
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Democratic Theory ◽  
Party Politics ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Democratic State

Pierre Rosanvallon is one of the most important political theorists writing in French. Counter-Democracy: Politics in an Age of Distrust is a book about the limits of conventional understandings of democracy. Rosanvallon argues that while most theories of democracy focus on institutionalized forms of political participation (especially elections), the vitality of democracy rests equally on forms of “counter-democracy” through which citizens dissent, protest, and exert pressure from without on the democratic state. This argument is relevant to the concerns of a broad range of political scientists, most especially students of democratic theory, electoral and party politics, social movements, social capital, and “contentious politics.” The goal of this symposium is to invite a number of political scientists who work on these issues to comment on the book from their distinctive disciplinary, methodological, and theoretical perspectives.—Jeffrey C. Isaac, Editor

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