“In an interview for an online article (Hui 2019), human rights activist Johnson Yeung sees the current movement in Hong Kong as “leader-full” rather than leaderless, in the sense that anyone is empowered to take part in the movement. “A decentralized, leader-full movement is resilient against an authoritarian regime,” said Yeung (Hui 2019). By taking to the streets, the limited public space in Hong Kong suddenly becomes abundant. The streets and other “liquefied” forms of public, semi-public, and privately-owned public spaces have enabled such leader-full movement to flourish and sustain.”
https://medium.com/@houjeff/be-water-as-in-liquid-public-space-8148a2c80026
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