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The Mobility Politics of Hong Kong's High‐Speed Rail
ABSTRACT Human geography scholarship has revealed how powerful and marginalised actors alike may use (im)mobility to exert authority, and it has recognised the ability of infrastructure to either consolidate or undermine state power. This paper uses new evidence to demonstrate how Hong Kong's express rail link (XRL) to Mainland China was implicated in ...
Benjamin Lucca Iaquinto
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The Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Protests (Anti-ELAB) brought an end to an era of psuedo-democracy in Hong Kong, a semi-autonomous region of mainland China operating under a One Country, Two Systems model of governance. Following the proposal of
Williams, Hannah
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The example of Hong Kong's anti-extradition law amendment bill protests [PDF]
Political demands are a relevant factor in protest participation. However, most studies examined demands as a tactical tool, and it remains unclear how the endorsement of collective demands may contribute to creating the mobilization potential.
Fiedler, Anna Julia +2 more
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ABSTRACT Social scientific research from different traditions on collective action under repressive conditions is fragmented across different levels of analysis. The current paper takes a first step toward remedying this fragmentation by reviewing research findings on repression and collective action and organizing them into a multilevel framework.
Arin H. Ayanian +5 more
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“Legalizing Oneself”: Citizenship, Waiting, and Fake Fakeness in Northern Cyprus
ABSTRACT This article contributes to the anthropological scholarship on citizenship and unrecognized states by analyzing how people grapple with the convoluted legal landscape of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). I present four life histories to describe the diverse citizenship constellations among the TRNC's (de facto) citizens and its ...
Bart Klem
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ABSTRACT This research combined person‐ and variable‐centred approaches to examine whether (a) core values, (b) perceptions of the political system's legitimacy and (c) attitudes towards Hong Kong–Mainland China integration underlie the Yellow versus Blue politicized collective identities that emerged during the Hong Kong 2019 social unrest.
Ying‐yi Hong +2 more
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Collective procrastination and protest cycles
Abstract This paper studies a model of “pivotal protesting,” in which citizens act in order to change the outcome rather than to collect private benefits. We show that, when citizens face repeated opportunities to protest against a regime, pivotal protesting entails complex dynamic considerations: The continuation value of the status quo influences the
Germán Gieczewski, Korhan Kocak
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The radical Pietist Johann Conrad Dippel was a self‐proclaimed adept – a maker of gold and the philosophers’ stone. He was also a magister of theology, a doctor of medicine, and a self‐taught chemist, who coinvented the pigment Prussian Blue together with Johann von Diesbach, became known for his animal pyrolysis oil, his wonder‐wound balm, his ...
Curt Wentrup
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Communication, coordination, and surveillance in the shadow of repression
Abstract Communication technology helps protesters organize, but also allows the government to monitor and repress their actions. We study this trade‐off in a model where protesters want to show up at the same time and place, but also want to avoid government forces. If leaders of a movement can send messages observed only by other protesters, they can
Tak‐Huen Chau +2 more
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ABSTRACT The historical bilateral relationship between Mexico and the United States has been marked by punctuated equilibrium, including extended periods of stability disrupted by sudden endogenous change. These critical junctures forced decisions and realignments, creating a path dependency of action from the north and adaptation from the south of the
Estefania Cruz Lera
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