Affective Dissent in the Heart of the Capitalist Utopia

Occupy Hong Kong and the Sacred

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2322754
AutoresTremlett Paul-François (0000-0001-6249-7495, The Open University, autor correspondente), Paul-François Tremlett (The Open University)
Ano2016
Volume50
Fascículo6
Páginas1156-1169
Data de publicação2016-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0038038515591943
OpenAlexW1942633859
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas33

Hong Kong has been represented as a politically indifferent, capitalist utopia. This representation was first deployed by British colonial elites and has since been embroidered by Hong Kong's new political masters in Beijing. Yet, on 15 October 2011, anti-capitalist activists identifying with the global Occupy movement assembled in Hong Kong Central and occupied a space under the HSBC bank. Occupy Hong Kong proved to be the longest occupation of all that was initiated by the global Occupy movement. Situated in a space notable for previously having been the haunt of Filipina domestic workers, the occupation conjured a community into the purified spaces of Hong Kong's financial district. I describe this in terms of an eruption of the sacred that placed conventional norms of Hong Kong city life under erasure, releasing powerful emotions into spaces once thought to be immune to the ritual effervescences of the transgressive

Beijing · China · Colonialism · Dissent · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics) · Sociology · Transgressive · Utopia · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Socioeconomic Development in Asia