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Main Author:	Ho, Kwok-Leung Denny (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Aldershot [u.a.] Ashgate 2000
Series:	Social and political studies from Hong Kong
Subjects:	Protestbewegung Wohnungspolitik Hongkong
Links:	http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=009176643&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
Physical Description:	XI, 375 S.
ISBN:	1840143339

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adam_text	Contents List of Figures and Tables viii Acknowledgements xi 1 Introduction 1 Urban Movements: Their Importance in Urban Politics 3 The Significance of the Study of Urban Protests in Hong Kong 10 Method and Data 13 Structure of this Book 17 2 Theories of Social Movements: A Review of the Literature 20 Introduction 20 The Classical Perspective on Collective Action 21 The Resource Mobilization Perspective 26 The Social Construction of Protest 45 Toward an Integrated Approach to Collective Action 51 3 The Changing Political Context in Hong Kong 59 Introduction 59 The Pre democracy Stage: 1970 1980 60 The Stage of Transition to Democracy: 1981 1992 69 The Grassroots Response to the Changing Political Structure in 75 the 1980s Recapitulation 79 4 Public Housing Policy and Urban Minorities 84 Introduction 84 The Housing Provision Structure in Hong Kong 84 Production and Allocation of Public Housing 88 Public Housing Policy and Urban Minorities 94 The Nature and Management of the Temporary Housing Areas 100 Summary 103 v vi Polite Politics 5 A Brief Account of the Trajectory of the ATHA Protest 106 Introduction 106 The Aged Temporary Housing Areas Issue 107 The Rise of the ATHA Protest 109 The Actors Involved in the ATHA Protest 118 The ATHA Residents 122 Summary 128 6 No Through Road: Limited Political Opportunities for 134 ATHA Residents Introduction 134 Two Changing Processes in the Political Structure 135 Who Cares about the Housing Movement? 145 The ATHA Issue and the Actors in the Political Structure 159 Conclusion 164 7 Every Person Counts: The Political Participation of ATHA 171 Residents Introduction 171 Forms of Political Participation in the Two ATHAs 173 The Social Characteristics of Residents in the Two ATHAs 175 To Participate or Not to Participate: A Case Study in the 181 Kowloon Bay THA Participation in the Ping Shek THA 193 Mobilization Potential and Actual Participation 207 Conclusion 214 8 The Mobilization Process: External Organizers, Local Leaders 220 and the Choice of Strategies Introduction 220 The Mobilization Agents 221 The Creation and Maintenance of the Foundation of ATHA Protest: 233 The Local Concern Groups Strategy Formation 246 Success or Failure of the Local Mobilization and Protest 258 Conclusion 263 9 Conclusion 269 Summary of the Argument 269 The Theoretical and Methodological Implications of this Study 289 Future Development of the ATHA Protest 297 Contents vii Appendix 1 Methods 300 Appendix 2 A Personal Reflection on Methodology 314 Appendix 3 Survey on the Tenants Preferences in the 322 Temporary Housing Areas in the Kwun Tong District Appendix 4 Survey on Kowloon Bay THA Residents Attitudes 328 to Same District Rehousing Policy Appendix 5 Survey of the Living Conditions of the Ping Shek 335 THA Bibliography 348 List of Figures and Tables Figures 2.1 Causal Sequence of Collective Action 22 2.2 Political Opportunity Structure: Summary of the Components 42 Making for Increased Access and Increased Success as Suggested by Tarrow, Kitschelt and Kriesi 2.3 Key Variables in Understanding Aspects of Social Movements 53 According to Four Theoretical Perspectives 6.1 Summary of the Political Openness, Orientation Towards 158 Taking up Housing Issues, and the Articulation Strategies of the Actors in Different Articulation Channels in Relation to Housing Movements in the Early 1990s Tables 1.1 Frequency of Various Forms of Action Taken in Housing 12 Conflicts, 1980 1991 3.1 Distribution of Working Population by Occupation (%) 62 3.2 The Performance of the Economy of Hong Kong in the 1980s 70 3.3 Representation of Five Occupational Categories on the 72 Executive Council, Legislative Council, Urban Council and Regional Council, 1965 1986 4.1 Occupied Living Quarters by Type of Living Quarters, 85 1981, 1986, 1991 (%) 4.2 The Production of Public Housing Units by the Housing 91 Authority, 1973 1991 4.3 Sources of Fund for Capital Expenditure of the Housing 93 Authority, 1977 1990 4.4 Population and Year of Existence of the Temporary Housing 99 Areas as at 1 April, 1991 viii List of Figures and Tables ix 5. la A Chronology of the Actions Organized by the Residents 115 of the Kowloon Bay THA in Respect of the ATHA Issue, 1990 1991 5. lb A Chronology of the Actions Organized by the Residents 116 of the Ping Shek THA in Respect of the ATHA Issue, 1990 1993 5.2 A Chronology of the Actions Organized by the Joint 117 Committee of the THA Residents Associations for the ATHA Issue, 1990 1993 5.3 General Information About Two Local THA Concern Groups 120 5.4 Years of Residency in Hong Kong, Place of Birth, Population, 124 Number of Households, by Residents in the Two ATHAs, as of May 1991 (%) 5.5 Years of Residency in THAs by the Residents in Two 125 THAs (%) 5.6 Occupation of the THA Residents by THA (%) 126 5.7 Monthly Household Income by THA (%) 127 5.8 Age Group of the THA Residents by THA, 1991 (%) 127 7.1 People to Whom Respondents Turn in Case of Emergency 179 7.2 Respondents Mobilization Potential in Protest Activities in 183 the Kowloon Bay THA 7.3 Characteristics of the Respondents in the Kowloon Bay THA 186 7.4 Odds Ratios for Predicting Four Measures of Participation in 189 Protest Activities Among Kowloon Bay THA Residents, Using Two Logistic Regression Models 7.5 Respondents Mobilization Potential in Protest Activities in 195 the Ping Shek THA 7.6 Characteristics of the Respondents in the Ping Shek THA 196 7.7 Odds Ratios for Variables Predicting Four Measures of 199 Participation in Protest Activities Among the Ping Shek THA Residents, Using Two Logistic Regression Models 7.8 Reason for Non participation in Protest Activities by THA 205 7.9 Rate of Actual Participation in the Ping Shek THA 208 7.10 Characteristics of the Actual Participants in the Ping Shek 208 THA 7.11 Models Predicting Actual Participation in the Ping Shek 210 THA Protest Activities x Polite Politics 8.1 Period of Involvement of the Volunteer Organizers in the 224 Ping Shek ATHA Protest, May 1992 April 1994 8.2 Level of Involvement of the Indigenous Leaders in the 232 Kowloon Bay THA and the Ping Shek THA, April 1990 April 1994 Al.l Distribution of Interviewees 301
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