Take Back Our Future

Ching Kwan Lee is Professor of Sociology at the University of California-Los Angeles. She is author of The Specter of Global China.Ming Sing is Associate Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is author of Hong Kong's Tortuous Democratization.

• 1. Take Back Our Future: An Eventful Sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement, by Ching Kwan Lee2. Prefigurative Politics of the Umbrella Movement: An Ethnography of Its Promise and Predicament, by Alex Chow3. Transgressive Politics in Occupy Mongkok, by Samson Yuen4. The Spectrum of Frames and Disputes in the Umbrella Movement, by Wing Sang Law5. Mediascape and Movement: The Dynamics of Political Communication, Public and Counterpublic, by Francis Lee6. Where Have All the Workers Gone? Reflections on the Role of Trade Unions during the Umbrella Movement, by Chris K. C. Chan7. How Students Took Leadership of the Umbrella Movement: Marginalization of Prodemocracy Parties, by Ming Sing8. Hong Kong's Hybrid Regime and Its Repertoires, by Edmund Cheng9. Protest Art, Hong Kong Style: A Photo Essay, by Oscar Ho10. Taiwan's Sunflower Occupy Movement as a Transformative Resistance to the "China Factor", by Jieh-Min WuAfterword: Hong Kong's Turn toward Greater Authoritarianism, by Ming Sing

Take Back Our Future marks a timely and necessary scholarly intervention that addresses both the internal movement dynamics and the wider structural contradictions that led to the rise and fall of the UM, allowing us to reflect on its theoretical and practical implications for Hong Kong and beyond. The volume's interrogation of the why and how of collective action in a hybrid regime marks a strong contribution to social movement studies.(Pacific Affairs)