Samson Yuen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597980 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samson Yuen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samson |
| FAMILY NAME | Yuen |
| SIGNATURE | YUEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong Baptist University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 139 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Cold feet on foreign soil? How repressive threats shape migrants’ political engagement
How do repressive threats in countries of origin influence migrants’ political participation after migration to new countries? While migrating to new countries is often assumed to provide opportunities for political voice, this study reveals a more complex picture. Drawing on survey data from Ukrainian, Polish, and Argentinian migrants in Western democracies, we examine how repressive threats in their home countries continue to shape political en…
Turning a blind eye? Understanding citizens’ tolerance for protester violence
When do ordinary citizens find protester violence permissible? Although research shows that public support for protests typically decreases when protesters use violent tactics, we argue that certain situations elicit greater toleration or endorsement of such tactics among bystanders. We examine the question with a preregistered survey experiment that randomizes protester tactics, police responses, and issue frames, while distinguishing between re…
Group identification and contribution guilt predict political consumerism
Participation in ideologically motivated boycotts and buycotts (i.e., political consumerism) represents an increasingly important form of collective action. However, relatively few studies have investigated this phenomenon, and little is known about its psychological predictors. We tested whether group‐based psychological constructs—group identification and contribution guilt (i.e., guilt arising from the perception of having insufficient contrib…
The Making of Leaderful Mobilization: Power and Contention in Hong Kong
The past few decades saw the transformation of Hong Kong from a liberal enclave to a revolutionary crucible at China's offshore. The Making of Leaderful Mobilization takes you through the evolution of protests in this restive city, where ordinary citizens gradually emerged as the protagonists of contention in place of social movement organizations. The book presents a theory of mediated threat that illuminates how threat perceptions fueled shifti…
Echoes of silence: How Social Influence Fosters Self-Censorship Under Democratic Backsliding
Protest memories and individual persistence: Examining Participants’ Intention to Remember a Movement Under Democratic Backsliding
Adaptation and Resilience: How Pro-democracy Protesters Respond to Autocratisation in Hong Kong
Understanding non‐normative civil resistance under repression: Evidence from Hong Kong and Chile
The present research examined the psychological processes underlying engagement in non‐normative forms of resistance and the role of repression. We conducted two studies in the contexts of two distinct social movements, both characterized by high levels of repression— the Anti‐Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement in Hong Kong and the “Chilean Spring” protests of 2019–2020. First, we tested whether non‐normative resistance was motivated by (1) …
Instagram and social capital: Youth Activism in a Networked Movement
The extensive participation of secondary school students was one of the features that characterized Hong Kong's Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement . Lacking the power and resources enjoyed by adults, how do these teenagers organize protest actions? While recent scholarship focuses on how recent youth activism is facilitated by the prevalent use of social media, this article argues that digitally-based, informal social movement groups fo…
Total Mobilization from Below: Hong Kong's Freedom Summer
This article examines the origins and dynamics of an extraordinary wave of protests in Hong Kong in 2019–2020. Despite lacking visible political opportunities and organizational resources, the protest movement drew resilient, mass participation unparalleled in the city's history and much of the world. Drawing from original on-site surveys and online datasets, we conceptualize the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement as a form of “total mo…
Dynamics of Tactical Radicalisation and Public Receptiveness in Hong Kong's Anti-Extradition Bill Movement
The Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti-ELAB) movement in Hong Kong was marked by a significant degree of tactical radicalisation in its first six months. Yet the movement also succeeded in maintaining a high degree of solidarity and public support. This article explains how tactical radicalisation and public receptiveness toward radical actions was achieved. It does this by drawing upon protest onsite survey data, public opinion poll data,…
Politically Motivated Internet Addiction: Relationships among Online Information Exposure, Internet Addiction, Fomo, Psychological Well-being, and Radicalism in Massive Political Turbulence
This research examines the mediating role of the tendency for Internet addiction, fear of missing out (FOMO), and psychological well-being in the relationship between online exposure to movement-related information and support for radical actions. A questionnaire survey that targets tertiary students was conducted during the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti-ELAB) Movement (N = 290). The findings reveal the mediating effect of Internet ad…
Native-Place Networks and Political Mobilization: The Case of Post-Handover Hong Kong
Native-place associations have played an indispensable role in the global migration of ethnic Chinese. Although there has been growing attention to their political role in advancing the Chinese state’s interests, few studies have looked into how they are organized and how they operate vis-à-vis the state. This article focuses on post-handover Hong Kong, where native-place associations, despite their long presence, are still growing in number and …
Deepening the State
United front work has long been an important tool through which the Chinese Communist Party exercises political influence in Hong Kong. While existing works have revealed the history, actors, and impact of united front work in this semiautonomous city, few studies have focused on its changing structure and objectives in the post-handover period. Using publicly available reports and an original event dataset, we show that united front work has inv…
Five Demands and (Not Quite) Beyond
This article examines the Anti-Extradition Bill (Anti-ELAB) Movement and uses claim making and claim transformation as a window to look at ideological struggle in Hong Kong. The analysis recounts the emergence of a specific configuration of movement claims: the supplementation of the moderate “Five Demands” with the abstract slogan “Revolution of Our Times” and other, more radical demands. The development of the configuration is explained by the …
The Umbrella Movement: Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong
Transgressive Politics in Occupy Mongkok
Memory in Movement: Collective Identity and Memory Contestation in Hong Kong's Tiananmen Vigils
Collective memory shapes collective identity in social movements, yet the cultural process of transforming collective memory into collective identity and actions is anything but linear. While preserving an established historical narrative can maintain movement solidarity, this process is actively contested by multiple actors, which may weaken solidarity and disrupt mobilization. Why does the memory process facilitate collective identity building …
Visceral politics across the Strait: Food and risk in China-Taiwan relations
The globalization of food systems has led to the increased circulation of food risks across national boundaries. While there is a rich literature on the domestic risk politics of food safety in China, much less attention has been given to the external dimension of China's food safety issues and how these interplay with relations in the international arena. This article examines the visceral politics of food and risk in China-Taiwan relations. Dra…
Neither Repression Nor Concession? A Regime’s Attrition against Mass Protests
Protest activists employ various strategies to challenge regimes, and regimes deploy multifaceted tactics to respond to such challenges. Existing studies on regime protest responses focus on repression and concession, but little attention is devoted to toleration, which is often regarded as government inaction. Drawing on primary sources and interviews, this article analyses regime responses to Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement to expand the conceptu…
Neither Repression Nor Concession? A Regime’s Attrition against Mass Protests
Protest activists employ various strategies to challenge regimes, and regimes deploy multifaceted tactics to respond to such challenges. Existing studies on regime protest responses focus on repression and concession, but little attention is devoted to toleration, which is often regarded as government inaction. Drawing on primary sources and interviews, this article analyses regime responses to Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement to expand the conceptu…
Dynamics of Tactical Radicalisation and Public Receptiveness in Hong Kong's Anti-Extradition Bill Movement
The Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti-ELAB) movement in Hong Kong was marked by a significant degree of tactical radicalisation in its first six months. Yet the movement also succeeded in maintaining a high degree of solidarity and public support. This article explains how tactical radicalisation and public receptiveness toward radical actions was achieved. It does this by drawing upon protest onsite survey data, public opinion poll data,…
Memory in Movement: Collective Identity and Memory Contestation in Hong Kong's Tiananmen Vigils
Collective memory shapes collective identity in social movements, yet the cultural process of transforming collective memory into collective identity and actions is anything but linear. While preserving an established historical narrative can maintain movement solidarity, this process is actively contested by multiple actors, which may weaken solidarity and disrupt mobilization. Why does the memory process facilitate collective identity building …
Five Demands and (Not Quite) Beyond
This article examines the Anti-Extradition Bill (Anti-ELAB) Movement and uses claim making and claim transformation as a window to look at ideological struggle in Hong Kong. The analysis recounts the emergence of a specific configuration of movement claims: the supplementation of the moderate “Five Demands” with the abstract slogan “Revolution of Our Times” and other, more radical demands. The development of the configuration is explained by the …
Instagram and social capital: Youth Activism in a Networked Movement
The extensive participation of secondary school students was one of the features that characterized Hong Kong's Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement . Lacking the power and resources enjoyed by adults, how do these teenagers organize protest actions? While recent scholarship focuses on how recent youth activism is facilitated by the prevalent use of social media, this article argues that digitally-based, informal social movement groups fo…
Adaptation and Resilience: How Pro-democracy Protesters Respond to Autocratisation in Hong Kong
Echoes of silence: How Social Influence Fosters Self-Censorship Under Democratic Backsliding
Native-Place Networks and Political Mobilization: The Case of Post-Handover Hong Kong
Native-place associations have played an indispensable role in the global migration of ethnic Chinese. Although there has been growing attention to their political role in advancing the Chinese state’s interests, few studies have looked into how they are organized and how they operate vis-à-vis the state. This article focuses on post-handover Hong Kong, where native-place associations, despite their long presence, are still growing in number and …
Understanding non‐normative civil resistance under repression: Evidence from Hong Kong and Chile
The present research examined the psychological processes underlying engagement in non‐normative forms of resistance and the role of repression. We conducted two studies in the contexts of two distinct social movements, both characterized by high levels of repression— the Anti‐Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement in Hong Kong and the “Chilean Spring” protests of 2019–2020. First, we tested whether non‐normative resistance was motivated by (1) …
Deepening the State
United front work has long been an important tool through which the Chinese Communist Party exercises political influence in Hong Kong. While existing works have revealed the history, actors, and impact of united front work in this semiautonomous city, few studies have focused on its changing structure and objectives in the post-handover period. Using publicly available reports and an original event dataset, we show that united front work has inv…
Visceral politics across the Strait: Food and risk in China-Taiwan relations
The globalization of food systems has led to the increased circulation of food risks across national boundaries. While there is a rich literature on the domestic risk politics of food safety in China, much less attention has been given to the external dimension of China's food safety issues and how these interplay with relations in the international arena. This article examines the visceral politics of food and risk in China-Taiwan relations. Dra…
Protest memories and individual persistence: Examining Participants’ Intention to Remember a Movement Under Democratic Backsliding
Neither Repression Nor Concession? A Regime’s Attrition against Mass Protests
Protest activists employ various strategies to challenge regimes, and regimes deploy multifaceted tactics to respond to such challenges. Existing studies on regime protest responses focus on repression and concession, but little attention is devoted to toleration, which is often regarded as government inaction. Drawing on primary sources and interviews, this article analyses regime responses to Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement to expand the conceptu…
Visceral politics across the Strait: Food and risk in China-Taiwan relations
The globalization of food systems has led to the increased circulation of food risks across national boundaries. While there is a rich literature on the domestic risk politics of food safety in China, much less attention has been given to the external dimension of China's food safety issues and how these interplay with relations in the international arena. This article examines the visceral politics of food and risk in China-Taiwan relations. Dra…
The Umbrella Movement: Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong
Transgressive Politics in Occupy Mongkok
Memory in Movement: Collective Identity and Memory Contestation in Hong Kong's Tiananmen Vigils
Collective memory shapes collective identity in social movements, yet the cultural process of transforming collective memory into collective identity and actions is anything but linear. While preserving an established historical narrative can maintain movement solidarity, this process is actively contested by multiple actors, which may weaken solidarity and disrupt mobilization. Why does the memory process facilitate collective identity building …
Politically Motivated Internet Addiction: Relationships among Online Information Exposure, Internet Addiction, Fomo, Psychological Well-being, and Radicalism in Massive Political Turbulence
This research examines the mediating role of the tendency for Internet addiction, fear of missing out (FOMO), and psychological well-being in the relationship between online exposure to movement-related information and support for radical actions. A questionnaire survey that targets tertiary students was conducted during the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti-ELAB) Movement (N = 290). The findings reveal the mediating effect of Internet ad…
Native-Place Networks and Political Mobilization: The Case of Post-Handover Hong Kong
Native-place associations have played an indispensable role in the global migration of ethnic Chinese. Although there has been growing attention to their political role in advancing the Chinese state’s interests, few studies have looked into how they are organized and how they operate vis-à-vis the state. This article focuses on post-handover Hong Kong, where native-place associations, despite their long presence, are still growing in number and …
Deepening the State
United front work has long been an important tool through which the Chinese Communist Party exercises political influence in Hong Kong. While existing works have revealed the history, actors, and impact of united front work in this semiautonomous city, few studies have focused on its changing structure and objectives in the post-handover period. Using publicly available reports and an original event dataset, we show that united front work has inv…
Five Demands and (Not Quite) Beyond
This article examines the Anti-Extradition Bill (Anti-ELAB) Movement and uses claim making and claim transformation as a window to look at ideological struggle in Hong Kong. The analysis recounts the emergence of a specific configuration of movement claims: the supplementation of the moderate “Five Demands” with the abstract slogan “Revolution of Our Times” and other, more radical demands. The development of the configuration is explained by the …
Total Mobilization from Below: Hong Kong's Freedom Summer
This article examines the origins and dynamics of an extraordinary wave of protests in Hong Kong in 2019–2020. Despite lacking visible political opportunities and organizational resources, the protest movement drew resilient, mass participation unparalleled in the city's history and much of the world. Drawing from original on-site surveys and online datasets, we conceptualize the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement as a form of “total mo…
Dynamics of Tactical Radicalisation and Public Receptiveness in Hong Kong's Anti-Extradition Bill Movement
The Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti-ELAB) movement in Hong Kong was marked by a significant degree of tactical radicalisation in its first six months. Yet the movement also succeeded in maintaining a high degree of solidarity and public support. This article explains how tactical radicalisation and public receptiveness toward radical actions was achieved. It does this by drawing upon protest onsite survey data, public opinion poll data,…
Instagram and social capital: Youth Activism in a Networked Movement
The extensive participation of secondary school students was one of the features that characterized Hong Kong's Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement . Lacking the power and resources enjoyed by adults, how do these teenagers organize protest actions? While recent scholarship focuses on how recent youth activism is facilitated by the prevalent use of social media, this article argues that digitally-based, informal social movement groups fo…
Understanding non‐normative civil resistance under repression: Evidence from Hong Kong and Chile
The present research examined the psychological processes underlying engagement in non‐normative forms of resistance and the role of repression. We conducted two studies in the contexts of two distinct social movements, both characterized by high levels of repression— the Anti‐Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement in Hong Kong and the “Chilean Spring” protests of 2019–2020. First, we tested whether non‐normative resistance was motivated by (1) …
The Making of Leaderful Mobilization: Power and Contention in Hong Kong
The past few decades saw the transformation of Hong Kong from a liberal enclave to a revolutionary crucible at China's offshore. The Making of Leaderful Mobilization takes you through the evolution of protests in this restive city, where ordinary citizens gradually emerged as the protagonists of contention in place of social movement organizations. The book presents a theory of mediated threat that illuminates how threat perceptions fueled shifti…
Echoes of silence: How Social Influence Fosters Self-Censorship Under Democratic Backsliding
Protest memories and individual persistence: Examining Participants’ Intention to Remember a Movement Under Democratic Backsliding
Adaptation and Resilience: How Pro-democracy Protesters Respond to Autocratisation in Hong Kong
Cold feet on foreign soil? How repressive threats shape migrants’ political engagement
How do repressive threats in countries of origin influence migrants’ political participation after migration to new countries? While migrating to new countries is often assumed to provide opportunities for political voice, this study reveals a more complex picture. Drawing on survey data from Ukrainian, Polish, and Argentinian migrants in Western democracies, we examine how repressive threats in their home countries continue to shape political en…
Turning a blind eye? Understanding citizens’ tolerance for protester violence
When do ordinary citizens find protester violence permissible? Although research shows that public support for protests typically decreases when protesters use violent tactics, we argue that certain situations elicit greater toleration or endorsement of such tactics among bystanders. We examine the question with a preregistered survey experiment that randomizes protester tactics, police responses, and issue frames, while distinguishing between re…
Group identification and contribution guilt predict political consumerism
Participation in ideologically motivated boycotts and buycotts (i.e., political consumerism) represents an increasingly important form of collective action. However, relatively few studies have investigated this phenomenon, and little is known about its psychological predictors. We tested whether group‐based psychological constructs—group identification and contribution guilt (i.e., guilt arising from the perception of having insufficient contrib…
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