Identities in Troubled Times: Minoritized Youth in Hong Kong’s “Summer of Protest”
Discursive experiences can contribute to shaping lives and their identities. For minoritized youth in Hong Kong, the 2019 protest movement provided many such experiences, although very little has been heard about them. Instead, reporting has focused on the experiences of the dominant Chinese populat...
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| author | Kerry J. Kennedy Jan Christian Gube Miron Kumar Bhowmik |
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| description | Discursive experiences can contribute to shaping lives and their identities. For minoritized youth in Hong Kong, the 2019 protest movement provided many such experiences, although very little has been heard about them. Instead, reporting has focused on the experiences of the dominant Chinese population. This paper aims to highlight the voices of minoritized youth in relation to the social movement that dominated Hong Kong in the second half of 2019. It is well recognized that identity is not fixed and that there are more likely multiple identities that transition from one to the other. Yet little is known about the influences on identity formation and the processes that underlie them. This was the issue addressed here. The paper draws on Lacan’s theory of identity in examining interviews involving minoritized youth and their engagement in Hong Kong’s 2019 protest movement. It shows how individual responses to the movement differed, how the movement challenged identities, and how these challenges were resolved. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-95b09a036af742c08394828fa237e49f2023-11-19T18:07:23ZengMDPI AGSocieties2075-46982023-10-01131021710.3390/soc13100217Identities in Troubled Times: Minoritized Youth in Hong Kong’s “Summer of Protest”Kerry J. Kennedy0Jan Christian Gube1Miron Kumar Bhowmik2Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, ChinaDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, ChinaDepartment of Education Policy and Leadership, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, ChinaDiscursive experiences can contribute to shaping lives and their identities. For minoritized youth in Hong Kong, the 2019 protest movement provided many such experiences, although very little has been heard about them. Instead, reporting has focused on the experiences of the dominant Chinese population. This paper aims to highlight the voices of minoritized youth in relation to the social movement that dominated Hong Kong in the second half of 2019. It is well recognized that identity is not fixed and that there are more likely multiple identities that transition from one to the other. Yet little is known about the influences on identity formation and the processes that underlie them. This was the issue addressed here. The paper draws on Lacan’s theory of identity in examining interviews involving minoritized youth and their engagement in Hong Kong’s 2019 protest movement. It shows how individual responses to the movement differed, how the movement challenged identities, and how these challenges were resolved.https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/13/10/217minoritiesidentityvaluesHong Kongprotest movement |
| spellingShingle | Kerry J. Kennedy Jan Christian Gube Miron Kumar Bhowmik Identities in Troubled Times: Minoritized Youth in Hong Kong’s “Summer of Protest” Societies minorities identity values Hong Kong protest movement |
| title | Identities in Troubled Times: Minoritized Youth in Hong Kong’s “Summer of Protest” |
| title_full | Identities in Troubled Times: Minoritized Youth in Hong Kong’s “Summer of Protest” |
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| title_short | Identities in Troubled Times: Minoritized Youth in Hong Kong’s “Summer of Protest” |
| title_sort | identities in troubled times minoritized youth in hong kong s summer of protest |
| topic | minorities identity values Hong Kong protest movement |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/13/10/217 |
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