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

History in Focus

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The Problem With Agency

How do we understand agency if we don't know the cultural and political context in which an individual has been programmed to operate? Not everyone would define agency quite so narrowly. What is happening when we actually now discuss agency as an inherent human faculty that we can find, says Professor Krillova.

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