WIAS Visiting Reasercher Seminar: “Hong Kong’s anti-extradition Protests of 2019-2020: Collectively Improvising a Decentralized Movement”（7/10）
Details
This lecture discusses Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement between February 2019 and June 2020. I apply the research method of protest event analysis to trace its rise and the decline. In particular, I look at how new actions are invented and adopted and the spatial logic of diffusion. Contrary to the existing literature that glories the leaderless movements, the Hong Kong case indicates its mobilizing capacity is finite and vulnerable to all-out regime repression.
Speaker
HO, Ming-sho (Professor, Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University)
Date & Time
July 10, 2025 (Thu.) 1:10 – 2:50 pm
Venue
Building #26, Room #302, Waseda Campus, Waseda University
Language
English
Prospected Audience
Undergraduate, Graduate, Researchers, Faculty members, general audience
Organizer
KOBAYASHI, Tetsuro (Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Economics)
Co-Organizer
Waseda Institute for Advanced Studies (WIAS)
