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"This book explains the contexts, causes and consequences of the 2014 Hong Kong Umbrella Movement, a 79 day mass occupation protest in one of the world's most affluent financial centers" Provided by publisher.

"In 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 strategies political disenfranchisement, economic subsumption, and identity reengineering in 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. Although the Umbrella Movement was fraught with internal tensions, Take Back Our Future demonstrates that the movement politicized a whole generation of people who had no prior experience in politics, fashioned new subjects and identities, and awakened popular consciousness." Back cover.

Take back our future : an eventful political sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement / Ching Kwan Lee Prefigurative politics : an ethnography of the promise and predicament of the Umbrella protests / Alex Chow Transgressive politics in Occupy Mongkok / Samson Yuen The spectrum of frames and disputes in the Umbrella Movement / Law Wing Sang Mediascape and movement : dynamics of political communication, public and counterpublic / Francis Lee Where have all the workers gone? Reflections on the role of trade unions during the Umbrella Movement / Chris K.C. Chan

In the shadow of the Umbrella : marginalization of Hong Kong's pro-democracy parties / Ming Sing Hong Kong's hybrid regime and its repertoires / Edmund W. Cheng Protest art, Hong Kong style : a photo essay / Oscar Ho Taiwan's Sunflower Occupy movement as a transformative resistance to the "China factor" / Jieh-min Wu Afterword : Hong Kong's turn towards greater authoritarianism / Ming Sing.

Protest movements > China > Hong Kong.

Civil disobedience > China > Hong Kong.

Democracy > China > Hong Kong.

Hong Kong (China) > Politics and government > 1997-

China > Hong Kong.