CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Sakkoula, Maria |
|---|---|
| Title | No Silver Here: An Analysis of the Changes in the Urban Fabric of Hong Kong after the Be Water Revolution |
| Summary | This thesis follows the claim of the right to the city exercised by HongKongers through their intervention in the urban fabric during the protest movement of 2019, named “Be Water Revolution”, which concluded unsuccessfully. The paper follows the metaphor of “urban scars” to talk about changes in the urban fabric, and temporally separates them into three different types: “wounds” – meaning the damages caused to the urban fabric during the protest movement, “plasters” – meaning the rapid governmental intervention of installing temporary measures of repair, and “scars” – meaning the permanent, reworked form these repairs have taken. The research utilizes various ethnographic methods including participant observation, interviews, informal conversations and walking ethnography. The findings attest to an adoption of a revengeful “aesthetics of defeat”, with governmental intervention weaponizing the element of disappearance found within Hong Kong culture, turning it into censorship and an imposition of painful memories. The paper concludes that the tactics implemented to oppress the right to the city surpass disappearance and aim at eradication. |
| Supervisor | Claudio Sopranzetti |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/sakkoula_mar.pdf |
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