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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/standoff-and-improvisation-eve
 ntful-protests-taiwan-s-sunflower-movement-and-hong-kong-s/
SUMMARY:Standoff and Improvisation in Eventful Protests: Taiwan’s Sunflow
 er Movement and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement
DESCRIPTION:\n	Ho Ming-Sho (Professor\, Department of Sociology\, National 
 Taiwan University)\n	Chair/Discussant: Paul Y. Chang (Associate Professor
  of Sociology\, Harvard University)\n\n	*Please note 10:30 am start time*\
 n\n	Co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\n\n\n	Taiwan
 's Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement of 2014 belong to 
 an unusual case of "eventful protests" for their large-scale and intensive
  participation as well as radical transformation in consequences\, which r
 equire new conceptual tools to make sense of their trajectories. The speak
 er will develop the notion of "standoff" to understand the contentious int
 eraction between protesters and the government. While these two incidents 
 are not so-called "leaderless" movements\, sustained occupation will not b
 e possible without voluntary and the on-the-spot strategic responses among
  grassroots participation. Theorized as "improvisation"\, the talk will al
 so examine the functions and the limits of these bottom-up contributions. 
 With growing institutionalization of the research field of social movement
  and contentious politics\, mostly focusing on the routinized social prote
 sts in democracy\, the notions such as standoff and improvisation call att
 ention to the rare\, albeit significant moments when people are able to ma
 ke their own history.
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