Abstract
Social movement researchers have investigated how personal relationships and emotional attachments are implicated in activism, but less attention has been given to the ways in which activism affects personal lives. This article addresses this issue, drawing on interviews and focus groups with Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement’s active participants, bystanders and opponents to explore its consequences for family life. While those who were not involved in the movement articulated an acceptance of hierarchical family structures and their imposed
silences, movement activists saw their experience of the occupation as enabling them to find a voice within their families. The Umbrella Movement, we suggest, has opened up a space for the reflexive exploration of personal life and raised the possibility of modifying Hong Kongfamily practices.
silences, movement activists saw their experience of the occupation as enabling them to find a voice within their families. The Umbrella Movement, we suggest, has opened up a space for the reflexive exploration of personal life and raised the possibility of modifying Hong Kongfamily practices.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 966-982 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Sociology |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| Early online date | 4 Sept 2017 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Oct 2018 |
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- development
- ethics
- postcolonialism
- representation
- Spivak
- subalternity
