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African people’s struggles for liberation
No full textModerators: Firoze MANJI (Daraja Press, Canada/Kenya) SIT Tsui Jade Margaret (Southwest University, China)
Militarization and the Suppression of Popular Movements
Speakers: Samar AL-BULUSHI (University of California, Irvine, USA) Brittany MACHE (Williams College, USA
Decolonizing knowledge to regenerate the earth and the future of humanity
No full textModerator: LAU Kin Chi (Lingnan University, China)
Speaker: Vandana SHIVA (NAVDANYA, India)
Discussants: Rebecca JOHNSON (Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy, UK) TIAN Song (Southern University of Science and Technology, China
Every I is a We : the intellectual legacy of Gustavo Esteva
No full textModerators: SIT Tsui Jade Margaret (Southwest University, China) Jose Rafael ESCOBEDO (Brandeis University, Mexico)
Speakers: Wendy JUÁREZ (Unitierra Oaxaca, Mexico) LAU Kin Chi (Lingnan University, China) David BARKIN (Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico) Elias GONZALEZ (Jesuit University of Guadalajara, Mexico
Technofeudalism, new financial architecture, food and debt crises
No full textModerators: SIT Tsui Jade Margaret (Southwest University, China) KHO Tungyi (Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives)
Speaker: Pedro PÁEZ PÉREZ (Former Minister of Economy. Independent Analyst, Ecuador)
Discussants: Arindam BANERJEE (Dr B.R. Ambedkar University, India) Mauricio DE SOUZA SABADINI (Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil
Money : from the power of finance to the sovereignty of the peoples
No full textModerator: Wim DIERCKXSENS (International Observatory of the Crisis, Costa Rica)
Speaker: Remy HERRERA (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France)
Discussants: Paulo NAKATANI (Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil) Walter FORMENTO (The University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Stagflation threatens sustainable development
No full textModerator: KHO Tungyi (Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives)
Speaker: JOMO Kwame Sundaram (Khazanah Research Institute, Malaysia)
Discussant: C. P. CHANDRASEKHAR (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
‘Aging in place’ or ‘stuck in place’? The aging in place experiences of older adults in a gentrifying neighborhood in Hong Kong
Get PDFUrbanization and population aging are two of the most critical global trends in the 21st century. In particular, the aging experiences of older adults living in gentrified urban areas has raised the attention of scholars from various disciplines. Urban aging concerns how and why some older adults can thrive in urban life while others are struggling to adapt. Hong Kong is experiencing ‘double aging’ —an aging population and a large scale of aging buildings, which make it particularly challenging to strike a balance between urban renewal and preservation of the community for older adults to age in place. The challenges caused by double aging has raised a question of whether older adults are aging in place or being ‘stuck in place’. In the existing literature, however, there is little attention paid to the potential impacts of gentrification on older adults who would like to age in place in Asian regions, especially Hong Kong. In light of this, this research aims to examine the aging in place experiences of older adults in Kwun Tong—a neighborhood that is undergoing rapid social and urban changes due to urban renewal and gentrification. It seeks to understand the dynamic and changing constitution of places where older people are living in and how these conditions affect the aging in place experiences of older residents.
Methodologically, I conducted in-depth interviews with 30 senior residents in Kwun Tong, who are aged 65 or above, to collect information about their aging in place experiences and perception of the urban renewal project in Kwun Tong. The in-depth interview data was also supplemented with 100 hours of ethnographical observation, which captured the changes of the Kwun Tong neighborhood and the daily life experiences of older people after urban redevelopment. The ethnographic data helps obtain additional and valuable grounded knowledge about the older residents’ daily routines in the changing neighborhood and how their lives have been affected by urban renewal and gentrification.
This study makes several contributions to the literature on urban studies, aging studies and environmental gerontological studies. First, it demonstrates the diversity of aging in place experiences of older adults living in a gentrifying district due to various factors including diverse experiences of places, formal and informal support within social networks, and personal characteristics. Contrary to previous overseas studies that mostly portrayed the aging in place experiences in gentrifying neighborhoods as either negative or positive, my research findings show that older people in Kwun Tong generally have ambivalent and mixed feelings toward the neighborhood that is undergoing gentrification and urban renewal. Secondly, this research reveals the agency of older people by examining the different responses and strategies they adopted to address the changes and challenges of gentrification that they face during urban renewal, which is an area that is so far under-studied in the literature. The findings demonstrate that older adults have utilized various resources to develop their skills and attitudes to cope with the challenges brought by gentrification. Finally, this research examines the patterns of participation of older people in the urban renewal process. Given the generally low level of participation of older people, it is suggested that age-inclusive measures need to be incorporated into future urban planning and redevelopment so that participation of older people can be increased, and their needs and voices be heard
Using a literature based discovery approach to study moderating effects and preventive mechanisms of online game addiction problems among gamers
Get PDFThis research makes use of a hypothesis generation technique known as Literature-Based Discovery (LBD) to study certain under-researched topics related to online game addiction problems in our society. This research work tries to primarily address two problems related to game addiction which have been under-studied according to the literature available on this topic. In the first problem, we try to identify certain moderating factors of massively multiplayer games which weakens the relationship between the psychological flow state and game addiction. In this data-driven approach, we studied 2829 abstracts to generate a list of keywords that suggest potential moderating factors for MMO games. Then interview data from 3 domain experts are used to support our findings from the LBD method. The results suggest that the keywords help us to identify alternative pathways (e.g., escapism, cognitive mechanisms and identification with avatars) to game addiction which have received less research attention.
In the second problem, we tried to identify potentially effective but under-studied measures that help prevent the negative effects of online game addiction among children and adolescents. We searched the abstracts of 876 articles using Literature-Based discovery and applied association rule mining to identify negative effects and preventive mechanisms of game addiction among children and adolescents in the age group of 8-19. We then tried to rank the relationship between these negative effects and preventive mechanisms by using the measure of ‘w-support’. This helped us identify some preventive mechanisms which have been under-studied in the game addiction literature along with the corresponding negative effects they address. Finally, we have computed the effective size of one such under-studied preventive mechanism to show that it is equally effective as other popular preventive mechanisms. This approach gives us an important future direction in the study and design of preventive programs to address online game addiction issues.
In both the problems, we use LBD methodology to either identify alternative pathways to supplement a more popular theory, as in the MMO game study or we used LBD to suggest some under-studied relationships, that can be further explored to design effective preventive mechanisms of online game addiction in children and adolescents. Thus, with the help of LBD as a research methodology, we try to overcome the challenges of knowledge overspecialization in certain areas and identify important future directions of research on the causes and prevention of online game addiction
Lingnan Gardeners Newsletter (No. 59) = 彩園通訊 (第59期)
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香港戲曲概述 2019
Get PDF《香港戲曲概述2019》是由香港藝術發展局資助的項目，出版目標旨在「呈現及記錄個別藝術範疇在年內的重要議題、現象和變化」。香港藝術發展局資助的年度概述，在表演藝術範疇還包括音樂、舞蹈、劇場。
為此，我們以「回顧」及「專題」為重心策劃年度概述的內容，既要收錄香港戲曲重要的現象、事件，提供扼要年度概覽；也要帶出一些業界關注、或對行業別具意義的課題，引領讀者進入當中的討論，從而前瞻行業的未來；還要將外在環境變化與這些課題結合，提供實在的社會文化脈胳，讓讀者理解這些課題的時代意義。
《香港戲曲概述2019》「回顧」部分，卷首收錄年度內香江梨園的重要事件，除了舞台上重要、新編的製作、傳播媒介（電視、電影、書籍等）相關出品，以及影響業界生計、營運模式的重要事件，亦一併收錄，讓讀者掌握繁花舞榭、歌台曲韻背後的脈膊。而「專題」部分，編輯組則選取香港戲曲業界的重要課題，包括「粵劇音樂/中國音樂」、「表演場地」以及「專著出版」等。這些文章全都呼應2019年業界的實況，從年度內舉辦的音樂及舞台節目出發，以2019年西九戲曲中心開幕為焦點，展開討論；又羅列和述介2019年內與戲曲相關的衆多專著出版，反映豐碩的戲曲論述和研究成果。
《香港戲曲概述2019》希望為業界的努力、奮鬥留下記錄，亦讓更多人了解「香港戲曲」領域內多樣性的課題。https://commons.ln.edu.hk/ccrd_xiqubook/1000/thumbnail.jp