Democracy’s Dislocations: Spaces of Protest and the People of Hong Kong

IF 1.1 2区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Public Culture Pub Date : 2022-03-18 DOI:10.1215/08992363-9435470

S. Devabhaktuni, J. Mansbridge

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Abstract

This article examines the 2019 Hong Kong protests from the perspective of urban space and the city’s historical founding as a colonial entrepôt. Specifically, it explores how the protests destabilized both the urban fabric of the city and the political and economic agreements that have defined the city’s governance since handover. The analysis of the protests, and of the history leading up to them, is informed by writings on democracy and space by Doreen Massey and Chantal Mouffe, and considers the work of activists, researchers, and journalists whose voices have often been out of step with the movement and with international media narratives that have defined it. The article provides historical and theoretical insight into the role of both collaboration and conflict in the formation of the city’s political identity and points to possibilities for engaging with the still-open question of the meanings and practices of democracy in Hong Kong.

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民主的错位：抗议空间与香港人民

本文从城市空间的角度审视了2019年香港抗议活动，以及这座城市作为殖民地入口的历史建立。具体而言，它探讨了抗议活动如何破坏城市结构以及自移交以来定义城市治理的政治和经济协议的稳定。多琳·梅西（Doreen Massey）和尚塔尔·穆菲（Chantal Mouffe）关于民主和空间的著作为对抗议活动及其引发历史的分析提供了依据，并考虑了活动家、研究人员和记者的工作，他们的声音往往与这场运动以及定义这场运动的国际媒体叙事格格不入。文章从历史和理论上深入探讨了合作和冲突在城市政治认同形成中的作用，并指出了参与香港民主意义和实践这一悬而未决的问题的可能性。

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2.10

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6.70%

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