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Hong Kong's New Identity Politics: Longing for the Local in the Shadow of China

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2020
Tongue
English
Leaves
173
Category
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"Ip uses Hong Kong as a case study in how the production of the desire for "the local" lies at the heart of global cultural economy. Perhaps more so than most places, the construction of a local identity in Hong Kong has come about through a complex interplay of neoliberalism, postcoloniality and reaction to the consequent anxieties and uncertainties. As its importance as an economic centre has diminished and its relationship with Mainland China has become more strained, its people have become more concerned to define a "Hong Kong" identity that can be defended from external threat. Ip analyses the working and reworking of power relations and modes of agency in this global city. A must read for scholars of Hong Kong politics and society as well as a fascinating case study for scholars of identity politics as a global phenomenon"--

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Two turns
Hong Kong: minority rights
Neither inside nor outside China
Methodological issues
Chapter outlines
Chapter 2: The fall of the Hong Kong Myth
Political texts as a multi-dimensional space
Patten’s Hong Kong Myth
Tung’s double responsibilities
Tsang’s personification and pragmatism
Chun-ying Leung and “proactive policy”
Carrie Lam’s “good governance”
Authoritarian neoliberalism
Notes
Chapter 3: The city of jiyu/geijyu: Refashioning a neoliberal subject
Neoliberalism and keyword
Jiyu/geijyu from China to Hong Kong
Turning crisis into opportunity
Individualized motivation, psychological condition, and ethos
Notes
Chapter 4: Ethnocracy: A study of the campaigns against mainland Chinese visitors
China: a magic ticket?
Populism and ethnocracy
Outbound tourism
From disempowerment to empowerment
Spatial governance
Conclusion: scaling down the colonial power
Notes
Chapter 5: Defending the city: Nativism and political existentialism
Ambiguity, ambivalence, and contradiction
Political institutionalization
Political deinstitutionalization
“Shaking things up”
Existential struggles
Conclusion: a rift into the political order
Chapter 6: Neoliberal populism: Ethnicization of right-wing economics
From right-wing economics to the thesis of “lazy people”
New anti-Mainland China sentiment
“The Gundam Incident”
The birth of zogaau
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 7: Poised between two times: Young men, temporality, and identity politics
Time as an object
Temporal multiplications
Hong Kong’s disjointed time
Williams: nostalgic nationalism
Charles: a sectarian youth
Kelvin: closeted participation
Identity politics without recognition
Chapter 8: “Hong Kong is not a dream”: Disengagement, translocality, and gangpiao
Hong Kong is not a dream
Translocality as network
Translocality and disengagement
Self-representation of gangpiao: pragmatism and mobility
Concluding remarks: “becoming gold-plated”
Epilogue: Will to power
Hong Kong as a neoliberal experiment
Two mechanisms: neoliberalism and affective autonomy
References
Index

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