After Autonomy: A Post-Mortem for Hong Kong’s first Handover, 1997–2019 1st Edition

After Autonomy: A Post-Mortem for Hong Kong’s first Handover, 1997–2019 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9789811949821,9811949824,9789811949838, 9811949832

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 9811949832
• ISBN-13: 9789811949838
• Author: Daniel F. Vukovich

This book offers a sharp, critical analysis of the rise and fall of the 2019 antiextradition bill movement in Hong Kong, including prior events like Occupy Central and the Mongkok Fishball Revolution, as well as their aftermaths in light of the re-assertion of mainland sovereignty over the SAR. Reading the conflict against the grain of those who would romanticize it or simply condemn it in nationalistic fashion, Vukovich goes beyond mediatized discourse to disentangle its roots in the Basic Law system as well as in the colonial and insufficiently postcolonial contexts and dynamics of Hong Kong. He examines the question of localist identity and its discontents, the problems of nativism, violence, and liberalism, the impossibility of autonomy, and what forms a genuine decolonization can and might yet take in the city. A concluding chapter examines Hong Kong’s need for state capacity and proper, livelihood development, in the light of the Omicron wave of the Covid pandemic, as the SAR goes forward into a second handover era.

Table contents:

1. In the Event: The Politics and Contexts of the 2019 Anti-ELAB Protests
2. Basic Law, Basic Problems: Autonomy and Identity
3. Re-Colonization or De-Colonization?
4. Coda: The Search for State Capacity After Covid and Zero-Covid
5. Correction to: After Autonomy: A Post-Mortem for Hong Kong’s first Handover, 1997–2019

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