{"id":9498,"date":"2016-11-02T17:21:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T09:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=9498"},"modified":"2022-03-30T14:52:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T06:52:05","slug":"november-2016-localisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/2016\/11\/november-2016-localisms\/","title":{"rendered":"November 2016 – Localisms"},"content":{"rendered":"

The results of September’s legislative council election saw a redrawing of Hong Kong’s political landscape. Six young non-establishment lawmakers who don’t belong to the pan-democratic camp was said to usher in an era of post-Umbrella Movement politics. Many media organisations and commentators referred to them as “localists”. But what does localism mean? In our November 2016 issue, Varsity<\/em>\u00a0explores the idea that there is more than one answer to the question and looks at how Hong Kong’s localisms evolved. Please read our stories below:<\/p>\n

They’ve been dubbed “localists” but the label doesn’t adequately describe the different political stances of the six young non-establishment activists elected to the legislative council in September and the groups they represent.\u00a0Varsity\u00a0<\/em>talks to some of the new lawmakers, their allies and scholars to see how they differ.<\/a><\/p>\n

The popular perception of localists today is that they advocate a separate Hong Kong identity and have an antagonistic attitude towards mainland China and Mainlanders. Yet just a decade ago, localism emerged as a movement to cherish and strengthen local identity while embracing inclusivity and universal values. We speak to some of the core members of that movement.<\/a><\/p>\n

There’s no doubt that localism is popular with Hong Kong’s younger generation. Our survey of more than 500 young people shows that more than two-thirds of respondents said they support localist groups.<\/a><\/p>\n

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In this issue’s Periscope, we look at Hong Kong “localisms” because we thing it’s misleading to think about localism as a single, unified ideology or movement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1807,494],"tags":[327],"class_list":["post-9498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issue-141","category-november-2016-localisms","tag-localism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9498"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20830,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9498\/revisions\/20830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}