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Amy Barrow and Sara Fuller (eds), Activism and Authoritarian Governance in Asia

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  1. See Aidan McGarry, et al., (eds), The Aesthetics of Global Protest: Visual Culture and Communication (Amsterdam University Press 2019); Nicholas Mirzoeff, How to See the World (Penguin Books Limited 2015).

  2. Emphasis added.

  3. Emphasis added.

  4. Ted Gregory, ‘Bias in Media Coverage of Conflict: 2022 Pearson Global Forum Convenes Academics, Practitioners to Discuss Global Discrimination & Marginalisation’ (The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, 13 January 2023). https://harris.uchicago.edu/news-events/news/bias-media-coverage-conflict. Accessed 28 September 2023.

  5. Emphasis added.

  6. See Nancy Bermeo, ‘On Democratic Backsliding’ (2016) 27 Journal of Democracy 5.

  7. Emphasis added.

  8. Emphasis added.

  9. Emphasis added.

  10. See Hugh Baxter, Habermas: The Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy (Stanford University Press 2011).

  11. Emphasis added.

  12. Hamsini Marada, ‘The Persistence of Collective Memory: Protecting and Preserving Protest Art through Law’ (Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies, 28 September 2022). https://frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/collective-memory-and-protest-art/#continue. Accessed 27 August 2023.

  13. The Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019.

  14. Nehal Ahmed, ‘How Shaheen Bagh Challenged Stereotypes About Muslim Women’ (Outlook, 31 January 2022). https://www.outlookindia.com/national/how-shaheen-bagh-challenged-stereotypes-about-muslim-women--news-50306. Accessed 6 October 2023.

  15. Rajvi Desai, ‘In Shaheen Bagh, Muslim Women Redefine Carework as Resistance’ (The Swaddle, 6 January 2020). https://www.theswaddle.com/in-shaheen-bagh-muslim-women-redefine-carework-as-resistance. Accessed 6 October 2023.

  16. Emphasis added.

  17. Emphasis added.

  18. See Yan-ho Lai and Ming Sing, ‘Solidarity and Implications of a Leaderless Movement in Hong Kong: Its Strengths and Limitations’ (2020) 53(4) Communist and Post-Communist Studies 41.

  19. Counter-culture is the phenomenon that rejects the norms and values which unite the dominant culture; See Keith A Roberts, ‘Toward a Generic Concept of Counter-Culture’ (1978) Sociological Focus, 114.

  20. Emphasis added.

  21. ‘Sanitary Panels’ (Instagram). https://www.instagram.com/sanitarypanels/?hl=en. Accessed 29 August 2023.

  22. ‘Contempt Case Against Sanitary Panels Creator Attack on Freedom of Speech, Says Artists Collective’ (Scroll, 10 Dec 2020). https://scroll.in/latest/980840/contempt-case-against-sanitary-panels-creator-attack-on-freedom-of-speech-says-artists-collective. Accessed 22 Nov 2023.

  23. Tim John Neal, ‘The Relation between Art & Emotion (Plato, Aristotle & Collingwood)’ (Tim Neal…Philosophical Writings: A Collection of Short Essays and Notes, 27 June 2013). https://timjohnneal.wordpress.com/2013/06/27/the-relation-between-art-emotion-plato-aristotle-collingwood/. Accessed 6 October 2023.

  24. Priyanka Singh, ‘The Power of Art: An Instrument for Activism & Resistance’ (Feminism in India, 8 July 2021). https://feminisminindia.com/2021/07/08/the-power-of-art-an-instrument-for-activism-resistance/. Accessed 6 October 2023.

  25. Emphasis added.

  26. See Lawrence Rosen, Law as Culture: An Invitation (Princeton University Press 2008).

  27. ibid.

  28. See McGarry, et al. (eds), The Aesthetics of Global Protest (n 1); Mirzoeff, How to See the World (n 1).

  29. ‘“Break Their Lineage, Break Their Roots”: China’s Crimes against Humanity Targeting Uyghurs and Other Turkic Muslims’ (Human Rights Watch, 19 April 2021). https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/19/break-their-lineage-break-their-roots/chinas-crimes-against-humanity-targeting. Accessed 29 August 2023.

  30. ‘After a 101-Day Sit-in, Shaheen Bagh Protest Cleared Due to Coronavirus Lockdown’ (The Wire, 24 March 2020). https://thewire.in/rights/shaheen-bagh-cleared-coronavirus-lockdown. Accessed 29 September 2023; Brian Wong, ‘Hong Kong’s Protests Amid COVID-19: A Dying Movement or a Halted War?’ (The Diplomat, 10 April 2020). https://thediplomat.com/2020/04/hong-kongs-protests-amid-covid-19-a-dying-movement-or-a-halted-war/. Accessed 29 September 2023.

  31. ‘Protest and Order: On Anti-CAA Protests’ (The Hindu, 20 Dec 2019). https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/protest-and-order/article59779303.ece. Accessed 21 November 2023.

  32. Amit Sahni v Commissioner of Police and Ors (2020) 12 SCR 151.

  33. Emphasis added.

  34. ‘The Impact of the National Security Law on Media and Internet Freedom in Hong Kong, Freedom House: Written Testimony by Angeli Datt’ (Freedom House, 8 September 2021). https://freedomhouse.org/article/impact-national-security-law-media-and-internet-freedom-hong-kong. Accessed 19 October 2023.

  35. ‘Dismantling a Free Society: Hong Kong One Year after the National Security Law’ (Human Rights Watch). https://www.hrw.org/feature/2021/06/25/dismantling-free-society/hong-kong-one-year-after-national-security-law. Accessed 19 October 2023.

  36. Fatima Khan, ‘Art Installations at Shaheen Bagh, Jamia Removed by Delhi Police, Graffiti Painted White’ (The Print, 24 March 2020). https://theprint.in/india/art-installations-at-shaheen-bagh-jamia-removed-by-delhi-police-graffiti-painted-white/387086/. Accessed 29 August 2023.

  37. Britta Baumgarten, Priska Daphi, and Peter Ullrich (eds), Conceptualising Culture in Social Movement Research (Springer 2014).

  38. The three pillars of Thai identity are nation, religion, and monarchy as described by Leelapatana and Tangthavorn in Ch. 7.

  39. Virginia Held, The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global (Oxford University Press 2005) 10.

  40. Alisha Ibkar, ‘Protest and Serve: The Grandmothers Dishing Up Care as Political Expression in India’ (The Sociological Review, 8 August 2023). https://thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/august-2023/strikes-and-care/protest-and-serve/. Accessed 19 October 2023.

  41. ibid.

  42. See Henry Jenkins, Gabriel Peters-Lazaro, and Sangita Shresthova, Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: Case Studies of Creative Social Change (New York University Press 2020).

  43. See Susan S Silbey, ‘Legal Culture and Cultures of Legality’ in John R Hall, Laura Grindstaff, and Ming-Cheng Lo (eds), Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology (Routledge 2010).

  44. Emphasis added.

  45. Carl Plantinga, ‘The Affective Power of Movies’ in Arthur P Shimamura (ed), Psychocinematics: Exploring Cognition at the Movies (Oxford University Press 2013).

  46. Emphasis added.

  47. Harish Damodaran, ‘Explained: The Concerns of Farmers, and What Centre can Negotiate to End Protest’ (The Indian Express, 15 February 2021). https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/farmers-big-concern-and-what-govt-could-negotiate-7073291/. Accessed 29 August 2023; Harikrishan Sharma, ‘Explained: What is the Farm Laws Repeal Bill, 2021?’ (The Indian Express, 29 November 2021). https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-what-is-the-farm-laws-repeal-bill-2021-7646896/. Accessed 29 August 2023.

  48. See ‘Stolen Freedoms: Creative Expression, Historic Resistance and the Myanmar Coup’ (Pen America). https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Final_MyanmarReport-compressed.pdf. Accessed 29 August 2023.

  49. Weeda Mehran, ‘Afghanistan: Women are at the Forefront of Protests Against the Taliban’ (The Conversation, 13 September 2021). https://theconversation.com/afghanistan-women-are-at-the-forefront-of-protests-against-the-taliban-167669. Accessed 29 August 2023.

  50. Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities (Haymarket Books 2016) xiii.

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Marada, H. Amy Barrow and Sara Fuller (eds), Activism and Authoritarian Governance in Asia. Jindal Global Law Review 14, 409–418 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41020-023-00208-w

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