How to Abolish the Hong Kong Police
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- Wong, Vincent (Author)
- Wong, Edward Hon-Sing (Author)
- Liu, Wen (Editor)
- Chien, JN (Editor)
- Chung, Christina (Editor)
- Tse, Ellie (Editor)
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How to Abolish the Hong Kong Police
Abstract
As a direct response to the extensive and ongoing police violence experienced throughout these past two years of struggle in Hong Kong, there has been an increasingly widespread understanding of the police force as structurally undemocratic, unaccountable, and subservient to the interests of elites. This has also led to the articulation by the protest movement of a “sixth demand”— to disband the Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF) altogether. The remarkable uptake of this demand sparked debate around exactly what dissolution of the HKPF would entail. Would it be reconstitution and reform? Or a more radical type of abolitionist politics? In grappling with this question, we encourage Hongkongers to engage with diverse decolonial and abolitionist struggles across the globe, along with existing and ongoing proto-abolitionist practices at home.
Book Title
Reorienting Hong Kong’s Resistance: Leftism, Decoloniality, and Internationalism
Place
Singapore
Publisher
Springer Nature
Date
2022
Pages
29-45
Language
en
ISBN
9789811646591
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Wong, V., & Wong, E. H.-S. (2022). How to Abolish the Hong Kong Police. In W. Liu, J. Chien, C. Chung, & E. Tse (Eds.), Reorienting Hong Kong’s Resistance: Leftism, Decoloniality, and Internationalism (pp. 29–45). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4659-1_3
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