Crowd Control and Mobilization with Nature in the China–Hong Kong Context
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6141563 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kwai-Cheung Lo (0000-0003-1996-8401, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 318-332 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Politics an International Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1743-2197 • E-ISSN: 1751-7435 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/17432197-10819423 |
| OpenAlex | W4391004610 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
This essay examines how crowd empowerment and its control inscribe the agency of nonhuman nature in the social movement and the governmental strategy within the context of China–Hong Kong connections. Concerning the 2019 Hong Kong protest movement, it examines how the agency is dispersed among the interactions of human crowds and nonhuman forces in particular environments. Humans look to nature as a source of inspiration for their conduct, even if nature is never one thing. As the notions of nature are mediated by culturally specific prejudices, people only talk about their society's ideas about nature when they talk about “nature” and any appeals to nature are highly ideological. In the first part, the essay discusses the excessive use of tear gas to weaponize the atmosphere functions as a medium and message that articulates a communicative politics connecting the protesters and the larger community for interaffective attunement. The atmospheric change unravels an attunement to possibilities opening to some people who throw themselves to be affected and push a situation into an event. In the second part, the essay analyzes how the collective climbing of Lion Rock, a mountain symbolizing the ethos and values of the Hong Kong community, during the protest movement transcends the physical limitation of the protesters’ perception to an expanded view and a higher status beyond human to confront a changing and incommensurable world below
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Attunement · China · Context (archaeology · Ethos · Ideology · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Water Governance and Infrastructure
The Mountain
Rebel City
Group psychology and the analysis of the ego.
The Dynamics of Peaceful and Violent Protests in Hong Kong
Covering the 2019 Hong Kong Protests
Mao's War against Nature
Mask as identity? The political subject in the 2019 Hong Kong’s social unrest
Climatic Media
Affective atmospheres
The Marvelous Clouds
Resistant Matters
Aerography, The Science of the Structure of the Atmosphere
Atmospheric Attunements
The Hong Kong Fever of 1843
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |