Mapping the umbrella movement: Uncovering grounded theologies in Hong Kong

• Main Author: TSE, Justin Kh
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: Asian Studies; Political Science; Religion
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3076; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4333/viewcontent/Symposium_MappingUmbrellaMovement.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

As this Syndicate forum on the Umbrella Movement and theology winds to a close, the physical occupations in Hong Kong seem to be nearing their end stage. With court injunctions, police clearances, statements of support from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) for the Hong Kong government, the attempted voluntary surrender of Occupy Central leaders to the police, and a student hunger strike after over seventy days of street occupations, it might seem late in the game to call for the mapping of “grounded theologies,” “performative practices of placemaking informed by understandings of the transcendent,” woven into the political constitution of the Hong Kong protests. However, as I shall argue, there is no better time to get to work