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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... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
Hong Kong; protest movement; symbol; art; visualization; political communication; propaganda; nationalism
Classification
Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Literature
Free Keywords
Agitprop; Gesellschaftliche/Politische Bewegung; Populismus; Verhältnis Kunst/Kultur - Politik/Gesellschaft
Document language
English
Publication Year
2023
Page/Pages
p. 488-517
Journal
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 52 (2023) 3
ISSN
1868-4874
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed