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
“Ho’s extraordinary new book, Be Water, examines and analyzes the fluid coordination of...anti-authoritarian resistance.... Ho argues that Hong Kong’s protesters exhibited an improvised rationality—a capacity to adapt, invent, and synchronize tactics under extreme repression.... Be Water stands as both a rich empirical study and a conceptual advance in the sociology of collective actions. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in social movements, authoritarianism, digital mobilization, and East Asian politics.”—Social Forces
"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
“Be Water provides the first comprehensive account of the mobilization of the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement in Hong Kong.... The notion of collective improvisation is the key theoretical contribution of this book.... [I]ts theoretical contribution to the literature on social movements is also significant.”—China Information
"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
“Be Water provides the first comprehensive account of the mobilization of the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement in Hong Kong.... The notion of collective improvisation is the key theoretical contribution of this book.... [I]ts theoretical contribution to the literature on social movements is also significant.”—China Information
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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