Description: 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...
Brief description: Ching Kwan Lee is Professor of Sociology at the University of California-Los Angeles. She is author of The Specter of Global China.
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Take Back Our Future marks a timely and necessary scholarly intervention that addresses both the internal movement dynamics and the wider structural contradictions that led to the rise and fall of the UM, allowing us to reflect on its theoretical and practical implications for Hong Kong and beyond. The volume's interrogation of the why and how of collective action in a hybrid regime marks a strong contribution to social movement studies.
-- "Pacific Affairs"