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14. Agency and History + Hong Kong and China Between the Tides

History in Focus

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The Role of Agency in the Evolution of Human Behavior

Is agency a universal human faculty something that can be extended anyone and everyone perhaps even extended beyond human beings? Or is agency something more radical? Mostly represent a fundamental challenge too or a replacement of a society's basic structures in ways of understanding. How do we conceptually define agency on the one hand versus the innate human ability to make choices? I actually don't think that we need to put all our categories under the rule of agency resistance, subversion, autonomy,. All this very important categories and we can use them. We just develop those categories which we have used for a long time.

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