I went out to protest after the mask ban was announced on Friday and walked from Central to Causeway Bay with a scholar of social movements who was in Hong…
Category: Umbrella Movement
Whether one is reading Charles Tilly or Erica Chenoweth, the literature on social movements and resistance campaigns usually begin with a recognition that the state is not monolithic. Personally, I…
Much has been written about the comments, guidance, and threats from official (and unofficial) government leaders about how teachers and schools should deal with the ‘threat’ of independence activism in…
I’ve been struggling to make sense of what I see as the central contradiction of the ‘Xi’s Era’ – his focus, if not obsession, with ideology and ideological discipline. Let…
Where to begin? Maybe with the end of the night – which was now 7 am – sitting outside McDonalds about a mile from the ongoing riot. Sitting with a…
This is Part IV of Hong Kong and the Anti-Cosmopolitan Moment, a response to Ivan Krastev’s Why Did the ‘Twitter Revolutions’ Fail? Where Krastev is weakest is explaining the origins of…
This is Part III Hong Kong and the Anti-Cosmopolitan Moment, a response to Ivan Krastev’s Why Did the ‘Twitter Revolutions’ Fail? This has an ongoing intellectual journey for me. As…
This is Part II of Hong Kong and the Anti-Cosmopolitan Moment, a response to Ivan Krastev’s Why Did the ‘Twitter Revolutions’ Fail? Krastev is crashing the ‘idiosyncratic’ party by saying the…
This is Part I of Hong Kong and the Anti-Cosmopolitan Moment, a response to Ivan Krastev’s Why Did the ‘Twitter Revolutions’ Fail? Ivan Krastev wrote an op-ed for the New York…
Ernest Renan was right when he wrote over a century ago: “Forgetting, and I would even say historical error, are an essential factor in the creation of a nation, and…