TY - CHAP
T1 - Surviving the collective subjectivity of Choy Yuen Village
T2 - From multiple marginalizations to irreversible resistance
AU - Tjia, Linda Yin-Nor
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Chapter 6 takes a closer look at the case of Choy Yuen Village in Hong Kong. The forced eviction of the old Choy Yuen Village, a small village that gave way to the construction of the Express Rail Link in Hong Kong, has been widely studied in the past ten years. Most of the literature focused on the strategy and trajectory of the social movement, investigating how collective efforts failed to stop the demolishment of the village, but successfully helped the villagers resettle, brought forward an alternative agricultural-led development and sustained a community based on civic engagement. Such empowering discourse, however, has missed out an equally critical discourse of marginalization and irreversibility, in which 47 non-indigenous households had settled in the new Choy Yuen Village with sorrow and much emotion.
AB - Chapter 6 takes a closer look at the case of Choy Yuen Village in Hong Kong. The forced eviction of the old Choy Yuen Village, a small village that gave way to the construction of the Express Rail Link in Hong Kong, has been widely studied in the past ten years. Most of the literature focused on the strategy and trajectory of the social movement, investigating how collective efforts failed to stop the demolishment of the village, but successfully helped the villagers resettle, brought forward an alternative agricultural-led development and sustained a community based on civic engagement. Such empowering discourse, however, has missed out an equally critical discourse of marginalization and irreversibility, in which 47 non-indigenous households had settled in the new Choy Yuen Village with sorrow and much emotion.
U2 - 10.4324/9781003037873-10
DO - 10.4324/9781003037873-10
M3 - RGC 12 - Chapter in an edited book (Author)
SN - 9780367480783
T3 - Margins of Development
SP - 126
EP - 150
BT - Living in the Margins in Mainland China, Hong Kong and India
A2 - Ho, Wing Chung
A2 - Padovani, Florence
PB - Routledge
ER -