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Hong Kong's networked agitprop: Popular nationalism in the wake of the 2019 anti-extradition protests
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Abstract Hong Kong's protest movements have created a repertoire of symbolism in artworks and artefacts that make statements about the political status of the city. This article analyses the protest art that emerged during the 2019 anti-extradition protests. We explore how actors produced a sense of "Hong Ko... mehr
Hong Kong's protest movements have created a repertoire of symbolism in artworks and artefacts that make statements about the political status of the city. This article analyses the protest art that emerged during the 2019 anti-extradition protests. We explore how actors produced a sense of "Hong Kong-ness" and distributed political meanings through networked agitprop: a form of strategic communication that links people and ideas together in both physical and digital contexts, through emotional appeals in the service of a grassroots political programme. By analysing examples of such agitprop, we show how the movement organically constructed networks of meaning to promote its ideas of people, nation, and even independence. However, we also find that the commitment to nationalist frames of reference ultimately prevents such art from re-imaging Hong Kong outside the confines of nations and that it even inadvertently reproduces the systems of power it ostensibly sets out to challenge.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Hongkong; Protestbewegung; Symbol; Kunst; Visualisierung; politische Kommunikation; Propaganda; Nationalismus
Klassifikation
Kultursoziologie, Kunstsoziologie, Literatursoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
Agitprop; Gesellschaftliche/Politische Bewegung; Populismus; Verhältnis Kunst/Kultur - Politik/Gesellschaft
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2023
Seitenangabe
S. 488-517
Zeitschriftentitel
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 52 (2023) 3
ISSN
1868-4874
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)