Be Water: Collective Improvisation in Hong Kong's Anti-Extradition Protests
Autor Ming-sho Hoen Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 mai 2025
In Be Water, Ming-sho Ho examines the dynamics of the city-wide uprising from the perspective of agency power. He seeks to understand how numerous and anonymous Hongkongers contributed to this epoch-making campaign as well as how they responded to the full-scale state repression that enveloped them. Ho praises and questions the durability of the inventive Be Water Revolution and how the activists encouraged protests spontaneously, through interpersonal networks and by voluntarily collaborating with strangers at great personal risk.
Ho posits a new concept of “collective improvisation” to make sense of such a decentralized yet creative way of protesting. Be Water seeks to understand the rise and long afterlife of this movement and illustrate its efficacy. As Ho shows, these dynamics of collective improvisation have implications for contemporary protest movements around the world.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781439924846
ISBN-10: 1439924848
Pagini: 252
Ilustrații: 13 figures
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Temple University Press
Colecția Temple University Press
ISBN-10: 1439924848
Pagini: 252
Ilustrații: 13 figures
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Temple University Press
Colecția Temple University Press
Recenzii
"Be Water is both a powerful chronicle of Hong Kong’s largest protest movement and a sobering meditation on the limits of leaderless resistance.... [Ho] asks whether collective improvisation is the ultimate form of modern protest or merely the most beautiful way to lose.... Be Water thus becomes not only a history of Hong Kong’s uprising but also a field manual for activists elsewhere, and a warning about the limits of decentralized protest in a digital panopticon. This duality is what makes the book so compelling.... Ho has done more than analyze a protest. He has illuminated the paradox at the heart of modern movements: that the same tactics that make resistance possible may also foreclose its future."—Ethnic and Racial Studies
"The author takes us fluidly through a journey in which the data either challenge or complement existing perspectives on emotions and moral outrage, high-risk activism, leaderless movements and spontaneity, performances and repertoires, diaspora mobilization, and post-mobilization trajectories. In this way, the book is as fluid as the movement it aspires to capture…. Be Water remains an impressive account of the fluid and complex characteristics of the anti-ELAB protest wave."—Mobilization
"This [book] offers a comprehensive and methodologically rigorous account of the events of 2019, as well as their broader historical and political contexts. It also provides a valuable framework for the study and classification of other significant protest movements. As such, it is a welcome and timely contribution to the growing body of scholarship on the 2019 protests."—Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
“Be Water is an important contribution to our understanding of the dynamics of the Anti-Extradition Protests in 2019. Drawing on 189 interviews and extensive on-site observation, Ming-sho Ho offers an actionist sociological account of the mobilization process…. [He] presents a compelling analysis of how trust is cultivated and sustained among participants engaged in high-risk activism…. [and] delivers a nuanced account of the movement’s global dimension…. This book provides a powerful analytical lens through which to assess the prospects of resistance in the city and beyond. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with the political future of Hong Kong.”—The China Quarterly
“After publishing impressive works on the social movements that rocked Taipei and Hong Kong in 2014, Ming-sho Ho focuses on the even more dramatic protests that shook the latter city half a decade later. The result is a significant contribution to both Hong Kong studies and social movement studies. Making good use of a concept he calls ‘collective improvisation,’ Ho traces the process by which activists embraced flexible strategies and innovated while adopting and adapting tactics borrowed from the local past and from other parts of the world. Based on extensive interviews, Be Water is an empirically rich work that should also give theorists a lot of food for thought.”—Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink
“In this groundbreaking analysis of Hong Kong’s democratic uprising from 2014 to 2019, Ho combines quantitative and qualitative data to uncover the emergence of collective improvisation as a distinctive form of protest. The insights Ho draws from this suppressed yet impactful movement are invaluable to social movement theorists and future activists alike.”—Ho-fung Hung, Henry M. and Elizabeth P. Wiesenfeld Professor in Political Economy in the Department of Sociology and Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and author of City on the Edge: Hong Kong under Chinese Rule
"The author takes us fluidly through a journey in which the data either challenge or complement existing perspectives on emotions and moral outrage, high-risk activism, leaderless movements and spontaneity, performances and repertoires, diaspora mobilization, and post-mobilization trajectories. In this way, the book is as fluid as the movement it aspires to capture…. Be Water remains an impressive account of the fluid and complex characteristics of the anti-ELAB protest wave."—Mobilization
"This [book] offers a comprehensive and methodologically rigorous account of the events of 2019, as well as their broader historical and political contexts. It also provides a valuable framework for the study and classification of other significant protest movements. As such, it is a welcome and timely contribution to the growing body of scholarship on the 2019 protests."—Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
“Be Water is an important contribution to our understanding of the dynamics of the Anti-Extradition Protests in 2019. Drawing on 189 interviews and extensive on-site observation, Ming-sho Ho offers an actionist sociological account of the mobilization process…. [He] presents a compelling analysis of how trust is cultivated and sustained among participants engaged in high-risk activism…. [and] delivers a nuanced account of the movement’s global dimension…. This book provides a powerful analytical lens through which to assess the prospects of resistance in the city and beyond. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with the political future of Hong Kong.”—The China Quarterly
“After publishing impressive works on the social movements that rocked Taipei and Hong Kong in 2014, Ming-sho Ho focuses on the even more dramatic protests that shook the latter city half a decade later. The result is a significant contribution to both Hong Kong studies and social movement studies. Making good use of a concept he calls ‘collective improvisation,’ Ho traces the process by which activists embraced flexible strategies and innovated while adopting and adapting tactics borrowed from the local past and from other parts of the world. Based on extensive interviews, Be Water is an empirically rich work that should also give theorists a lot of food for thought.”—Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink
“In this groundbreaking analysis of Hong Kong’s democratic uprising from 2014 to 2019, Ho combines quantitative and qualitative data to uncover the emergence of collective improvisation as a distinctive form of protest. The insights Ho draws from this suppressed yet impactful movement are invaluable to social movement theorists and future activists alike.”—Ho-fung Hung, Henry M. and Elizabeth P. Wiesenfeld Professor in Political Economy in the Department of Sociology and Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and author of City on the Edge: Hong Kong under Chinese Rule
Notă biografică
Ming-sho Ho is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and a Researcher at the Taiwan Social Resilience Center at National Taiwan University. He is the author of Challenging Beijing's Mandate of Heaven: Taiwan's Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement (Temple) and Working Class Formation in Taiwan: Fractured Solidarity in State-Owned Enterprises, 1945–2012.
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