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Being water: protest zines and the politics of care in Hong Kong.
- Source :
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Cultural Studies . Jul2024, Vol. 38 Issue 4, p668-696. 29p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- During the 2019 Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti-ELAB) protest, Hong Kong protesters invented, adapted, and deployed a variety of decentralized grassroots tactics of resistance. While understudied, the proliferation of protest zines during the Anti-ELAB movement contributed to an affective community among movement supporters and protesters, allowing them to engage in self- and communal care as they resisted state violence. We argue that protest zines foregrounded a grassroots community of care that encourages political change in the following ways: expand the emotional habitus among protesters and movement supporters to accommodate debilitating bad feelings; promote self-care and embodied emotional reflection as a form of resistance against state violence; contribute to voluntary kinship among protesters beyond the state-sanctioned nuclear family model; and articulate nuclear familial relations as a site of political resistance. By examining how protest zines articulate voluntary kinship among movement supporters, we illustrate how the zines challenge dominant paternalistic institutions to reimagine a more open political future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *PUBLIC demonstrations
*ZINES
*SOCIAL movements
*KINSHIP
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09502386
- Volume :
- 38
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Cultural Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 177840008
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2023.2191123