To Become Something More: Decolonial
and Pedagogical Village Encounters
Michael Leung
This chapter reflects on entanglements within the ongoing Wang Chau
Village resistance in the New Territories region of Hong Kong. It is
an attempt to engage in what art theorist Gerald Raunig refers to as
“wild and transversal writing”—an untamed approach to writing that
connects people from different disciplines, and subsequently builds new
social bonds and lines of solidarity through its readers (Raunig 2013, 35).
Exemplifying the cross-disciplinary approach of its writing, this text prob-
lematizes the legacy of British colonial government policies that continue
to discriminate and dispossess villagers today; describes a praxis of co-
organizing four Jackfruit Festivals with Wang Chau villagers (from 2017
to 2020); and shares a “pedagogy of the movement” within Hong Kong’s
land struggles/resistances. Unreconciled thoughts are weaved into this essay
in the form of italicized text, prompting further research paths. This is
followed by a postscript that includes updates and new lines of solidarity,
which acknowledge that chapters written within social movements are time
stamped but never static, and always inviting .
M. Leung (B )
City University, Kowloon, Hong Kong
e-mail: contact@studioleung.com
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