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The Occupy Movement in Hong Kong: Origins, Processes and Consequences.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	The Occupy Movement in Hong Kong: Origins, Processes and Consequences./
作者:	Yang, Shen.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
面頁冊數:	247 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 79-05, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International79-05A.
標題:	Asian Studies. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10659389
ISBN:	9780355268683

The Occupy Movement in Hong Kong: Origins, Processes and Consequences.
Yang, Shen.

The Occupy Movement in Hong Kong: Origins, Processes and Consequences. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 247 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 79-05, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong), 2016.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

This dissertation studies the political process of the Occupy Movement in Hong Kong. Drawing on in-depth interviews and archival research, this study argues the movement is characterized as the misperceptions, miscommunications, and mistreatments among the main stakeholders. The movement is best defined as constitutional disobedience, instead of civil disobedience as claimed by movement leaders. Driven by the strong grievance and perceived political opportunity, the leaders of Occupy Central started the campaign in early 2013 and framed it as a "civil disobedience" movement. Aiming at figuring out an authoritative proposal and letting the civil society lead political parties in the political reform, the campaign organized a series of "deliberation days", yet the self-selection of the participants made the DDays become de facto movement mobilization. The DDays were gradually dominated by radical political forces that alienated moderate democrats. The Chinese government perceived the Occupy Central campaign as a struggle for the governing power in Hong Kong. With the miscommunication and the fear of foreign intervention, the Chinese government over-reacted by first announcing the White Paper that attempted to reinterpret the constitutional order, followed by the NPCSC's Decision that offered an election framework with political pre-screening, which were treated as a betray of the promises of autonomy and democracy by Hong Kong citizens. The students then stepped in to start a student movement that finally evolved to the Umbrella Movement. The HKFS first started a class boycott campaign with the master frame of "self-determination of fate" and blaming the Basic Law for recolonizing Hong Kong as it inherited the colonial political-economic system. After the outbreak of Umbrella Movement, most protesters, including the student leaders, were having a constitutional disobedience by competing with the government for constitutional understandings. After the movement participation reached its peak in the initial days, the protesters tried to sustain the movement through tactical escalations and looking for potential elite allies, but all such efforts did not work. The government adopted the strategy of exhaustion after initial repression backfired. The government finally made use of the injunctions to end the movement, as the legal institutions remained its legitimacy and most protesters were not willing to challenge the rule of law. This study argues the Occupy Movement is best characterized as constitutional disobedience. The protesters adhered to the constitutional order of "One Country, Two Systems" but tried to relax some key constraints on democratic rights imposed by the Basic Law through the interpretation of constitutional document. Constitutional disobedience accepts constitutional order and legal institutions but rejects the legitimacy of political institutions. Constitutional disobedience could take place in a singular polity-liberal autocracy, where civil liberty, rule of law, and constitutionalism have been well established, legal institutions have been widely respected, but a legitimate democratic government has yet to be set up. The new term could contribute to understanding the popular contention in transitional countries and post-colonial regions.

ISBN: 9780355268683Subjects--Topical Terms:

1669375
Asian Studies.
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China

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