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Conference Paper: Security and the Pandemic: a View from Hong Kong
| Title | Security and the Pandemic: a View from Hong Kong |
|---|---|
| Authors | |
| Issue Date | 2020 |
| Citation | Director's Series on Law and Humanities in a Pandemic Workshop: Movement, Security And Lockdown, Virtual Meeting, 8 December 2020 How to Cite? |
| Abstract | In the midst of the Covid pandemic, China announced that it would introduce national security laws in Hong Kong. The announcement generated strong, and immediate, international condemnation. The introduction of national security laws by the Chinese authorities is often framed in the Western media as part of a global grand narrative whereby authoritarian governments use the pandemic as a pretext to restrict rights and stifle dissent of their people. In this paper, I argue that the debate about national security in Hong Kong is more complex than that presented in these journalistic accounts. I present a longer-term, contextual analysis of the debate, and examine how it intersects with ideas about identity in the city. |
| Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/294280 |
| DC Field | Value | Language |
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| dc.contributor.author | Wan, MMH | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-11-23T08:29:06Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2020-11-23T08:29:06Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2020 | - |
| dc.identifier.citation | Director's Series on Law and Humanities in a Pandemic Workshop: Movement, Security And Lockdown, Virtual Meeting, 8 December 2020 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/294280 | - |
| dc.description.abstract | In the midst of the Covid pandemic, China announced that it would introduce national security laws in Hong Kong. The announcement generated strong, and immediate, international condemnation. The introduction of national security laws by the Chinese authorities is often framed in the Western media as part of a global grand narrative whereby authoritarian governments use the pandemic as a pretext to restrict rights and stifle dissent of their people. In this paper, I argue that the debate about national security in Hong Kong is more complex than that presented in these journalistic accounts. I present a longer-term, contextual analysis of the debate, and examine how it intersects with ideas about identity in the city. | - |
| dc.language | eng | - |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Director's Series on Law and Humanities in a Pandemic Workshop | - |
| dc.title | Security and the Pandemic: a View from Hong Kong | - |
| dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
| dc.identifier.email | Wan, MMH: mwan@hkucc.hku.hk | - |
| dc.identifier.authority | Wan, MMH=rp01272 | - |
| dc.identifier.hkuros | 319658 | - |