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4 - No Leaders, Only the Masses

from Part II - Episodes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2025

Edmund W. Cheng  and
Samson Yuen
Edmund W. Cheng
Affiliation:
City University of Hong Kong
Samson Yuen
Affiliation:
Hong Kong Baptist University
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Summary

Chapter 4 explores the complex dynamics and profound consequences of the 2014 Umbrella Movement. We illustrate how its spontaneous eruption led to a hybrid organizational structure comprising a formal leadership and self-mobilized protesters who saw themselves as leaderless, and how such dynamics eventually led to the division and fragmentation of the opposition.

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accidental leadersstate repressionspontaneous occupationspaceorganizational hybridityleaderlessprotest leadershipcommunity activismthe umbrella movementfragmented mobilization
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The Making of Leaderful Mobilization
Power and Contention in Hong Kong
 , pp. 91 - 111
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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