Andrew Junker
Biographic Data
| ID | 4036367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Junker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Junker |
| SIGNATURE | JUNKER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Anti-Activism and Its Impact on Civil Society in Hong Kong
In this article, we introduce the concept of “anti-activism” and explore the possible impact of anti-activist action in Hong Kong. We define anti-activism as a form of countermovement intended to discredit, distract, and even harass activists in voluntary social movements. Our data and analyses are based on field observations, interviews, and primary documents collected in Hong Kong during 2012–2018. We focus on the case of the protest campaign a…
Becoming Activists in Global China
Becoming Activists in Global China is the first purely sociological study of the religious movement Falun Gong and its resistance to the Chinese state. The literature on Chinese protest has intensively studied the 1989 democracy movement while largely ignoring opposition by Falun Gong, even though the latter has been more enduring. This comparative study explains why the Falun Gong protest took off in diaspora and the democracy movement did not. …
Live organ harvesting in China
The Transnational Flow of Tactical Dispositions
This article examines the tactical repertoires of two diaspora-based Chinese protest movements; the Chinese democracy movement and the Falun Gong, a religious community that has been banned in China since 1999. Data, which were collected and coded using quantitative narrative analysis (QNA) software, take the form of inventories of tactics used by each movement. In spite of general contextual similarity in political opportunity and context faced …
Follower Agency and Charismatic Mobilization in Falun Gong
This article reconsiders sociological theory of charisma through Falun Gong, a transnational Chinese new religious movement that was banned in China in 1999. In spite of widely shared agreement that charismatic authority is based on social interactions between a leader and followers, research on charisma and collective action has predominantly focused on the agency of the charismatic leader. The Falun Gong case reveals, by contrast, that follower…
Optimism and Caution Regarding New Tools for Analyzing Qualitative Data
Follower Agency and Charismatic Mobilization in Falun Gong
This article reconsiders sociological theory of charisma through Falun Gong, a transnational Chinese new religious movement that was banned in China in 1999. In spite of widely shared agreement that charismatic authority is based on social interactions between a leader and followers, research on charisma and collective action has predominantly focused on the agency of the charismatic leader. The Falun Gong case reveals, by contrast, that follower…
Optimism and Caution Regarding New Tools for Analyzing Qualitative Data
Anti-Activism and Its Impact on Civil Society in Hong Kong
In this article, we introduce the concept of “anti-activism” and explore the possible impact of anti-activist action in Hong Kong. We define anti-activism as a form of countermovement intended to discredit, distract, and even harass activists in voluntary social movements. Our data and analyses are based on field observations, interviews, and primary documents collected in Hong Kong during 2012–2018. We focus on the case of the protest campaign a…
Live organ harvesting in China
The Transnational Flow of Tactical Dispositions
This article examines the tactical repertoires of two diaspora-based Chinese protest movements; the Chinese democracy movement and the Falun Gong, a religious community that has been banned in China since 1999. Data, which were collected and coded using quantitative narrative analysis (QNA) software, take the form of inventories of tactics used by each movement. In spite of general contextual similarity in political opportunity and context faced …
Optimism and Caution Regarding New Tools for Analyzing Qualitative Data
The Transnational Flow of Tactical Dispositions
This article examines the tactical repertoires of two diaspora-based Chinese protest movements; the Chinese democracy movement and the Falun Gong, a religious community that has been banned in China since 1999. Data, which were collected and coded using quantitative narrative analysis (QNA) software, take the form of inventories of tactics used by each movement. In spite of general contextual similarity in political opportunity and context faced …
Follower Agency and Charismatic Mobilization in Falun Gong
This article reconsiders sociological theory of charisma through Falun Gong, a transnational Chinese new religious movement that was banned in China in 1999. In spite of widely shared agreement that charismatic authority is based on social interactions between a leader and followers, research on charisma and collective action has predominantly focused on the agency of the charismatic leader. The Falun Gong case reveals, by contrast, that follower…
Live organ harvesting in China
Becoming Activists in Global China
Becoming Activists in Global China is the first purely sociological study of the religious movement Falun Gong and its resistance to the Chinese state. The literature on Chinese protest has intensively studied the 1989 democracy movement while largely ignoring opposition by Falun Gong, even though the latter has been more enduring. This comparative study explains why the Falun Gong protest took off in diaspora and the democracy movement did not. …
Anti-Activism and Its Impact on Civil Society in Hong Kong
In this article, we introduce the concept of “anti-activism” and explore the possible impact of anti-activist action in Hong Kong. We define anti-activism as a form of countermovement intended to discredit, distract, and even harass activists in voluntary social movements. Our data and analyses are based on field observations, interviews, and primary documents collected in Hong Kong during 2012–2018. We focus on the case of the protest campaign a…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · China (3 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (3 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (2 works) · Civil society (2 works)