Oil on Water: Some Personal Musings on Hong Kong’s Summer of Protests

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  • Jennifer Eagleton University of Hong Kong

Abstract

This is a personal commentary on the nature of the Hong Kong protests of the summer 2019. 

Author Biography

Jennifer Eagleton, University of Hong Kong

Jennifer Eagleton, a Hong Kong resident since October 1997, is a committee member of the Hong Kong Democratic Foundation and a Civic Party member, who has been a close observer of Hong Kong politics since her arrival in the city. She was an adviser to the University of Hong Kong’s “Designing Democracy Hong Kong” project (2011-2013), and in 2012 completed a PhD on how Hong Kong talks about democracy using metaphor. Jennifer has written several language-related articles for Hong Kong Free Press and is currently compiling a book combining Hong Kong culture, photography, and political metaphor.

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Published

2019-12-01

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 2 (2019): Journal of Autonomy and Security Studies

Section

Commentaries

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Copyright (c) 2019 Jennifer Eagleton

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