Hong Kong's vehicles of democracy
The vernacular monumentality of buses during the Umbrella Revolution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12910238 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Gilmore (0000-0001-6857-6354, Colorado State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 328-346 |
| Publication date | 2019-08-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of International and Intercultural Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-3065 • E-ISSN: 1751-3057 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17513057.2019.1646789 |
| OpenAlex | W2965266255 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 20 |
Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution saw some of the city's busiest streets transformed into temporary sites of artistic expression and freedom. This essay explores the everyday items were turned into in-situ tools of protest – in particular, the subversive use of double-decker buses. I analyze how a number of double-decker buses were transformed from a form of moving rhetoric into static, vernacular monuments representing Hong Kong's history and serving as democratic billboards. Through the display of Hong Kong's present (mainlandization), past (colonization), and future (democracy), the city's protesters were, I suggest, able to communicate their fears about the increasing effects of mainlandization in an attempt to shift Hong Kong's political possibilities
Aesthetics · Art · Democracy · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Vernacular · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics
Protest, Power, and Change
Grassroots Memorials
Twenty-five years of democracy, twenty-five years of social protest
Visualizing Protest Culture in China’s Hong Kong
Puckish protesting in the Umbrella Movement
The Identity Shift in Hong Kong since 1997
Hong Kong Identity on the Rise
Imagined communities
The practice of everyday life
"One Country, Two Systems" and Hong Kong-China National Integration
Social Movements and Democracy
Transborder habitus in a within-country mobility context
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |