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Another Chinese city? : identity formation amid Hong Kong’s autocratisation
No full textDefence date: 21 January 2026Examining Board: Prof. Jeff T. Checkel (European University Institute, Supervisor); Prof. Gordon Mathews (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, External Supervisor); Prof. Stefano Guzzini (European University Institute); Prof. Lea David (University College Dublin)This thesis investigates how grassroots identity is formed and reshaped in contemporary Hong Kong amid the city’s rapid autocratisation. While Hong Kong identity has long been understood as an ambiguous and evolving cultural construct shaped by Chinese heritage, British colonial legacies, and a cosmopolitan outlook, it has often been studied through quantitative surveys, elite discourses, or media analysis. These approaches tend to marginalise the agency of ordinary citizens and fail to capture how identity is lived and negotiated in everyday contexts. This limitation has become particularly acute following the 2020 introduction of the National Security Law, which triggered a profound socio-political transformation and which severely constrained avenues for political expression. This thesis addresses the following research questions: 1) How should Hong Kong identity be conceptualised and explained today?; 2) How do the processes underpinning grassroots, bottom-up identity formation operate at a time of rapid socio-political transformations in Hong Kong?; 3) And more broadly, what can Hong Kong teach us about identity formation amid autocratisation? In order to address the shortcomings of the existing scholarship on Hong Kong identity and to answer the research questions, this thesis develops and makes use of a novel analytical framework, the Say-Do-See framework, which draws on political ethnography and operationalises identity through the triangulation of narratives (what people say), practices (what people do), and spatial-symbolic perceptions (what people see). By foregrounding the lived experiences, everyday practices, and perceptions of ordinary Hongkongers, the framework challenges dominant top-down or elite-centric narratives of identity. The framework is employed across three empirical chapters, each grounded in ethnographic fieldwork, in-depth interviews, participant observation, and photo-elicitation techniques in combination with an engagement with three theoretical frameworks on identity formation. The first empirical chapter engages social identity theory to examine the civic aspects of identity among Hong Kong populations. It shows how Hongkongers are redefining their civic relationships vis-à-vis the state through strategies of adaptation, individualisation, and low-risk expressions. These redefinitions range from reluctant compliance to subtle shifts in everyday behaviour and discourse, highlighting how autocratisation is reshaping civic self-understandings without necessarily extinguishing them. The second empirical chapter draws on symbolic interactionism to analyse the cultural aspects of Hong Kong identity. It argues that in response to political pressure, many Hongkongers are actively striving to highlight and redefine distinctive aspects of Hong Kong identity, as well as seeking new ways to express cultural uniqueness. This process is both defensive and creative, suggesting that autocratisation has, paradoxically, reinforced cultural identity at the individual level. The third empirical chapter uses postcolonial theory to explore the temporal dimensions of identity. It reveals how memory, especially of the colonial era and the 2014 and 2019 protest movements, is being actively curated and enacted through everyday practices, symbolic references, and spatial engagements. The past has become a site of resistance and self-definition, with collective memory emerging as a critical component of postcolonial identity preservation in Hong Kong. X The thesis culminates with a chapter that discusses the conceptual, analytical, and theoretical contributions of the study. Conceptually, it proposes an updated definition of Hong Kong identity in the era of autocratisation rooted in a distinct city identity but with Chinese characteristics. Analytically, it outlines how the implementation of SayDo-See framework results in rigorous, systematic, and transferable methodological framework to study grassroots identity amid autocratisation and beyond. Theoretically, it establishes a set of theoretical propositions to the existing theoretical frameworks, resulting from the combination of the application of theoretical pluralism and the Say-Do-See framework. Finally, the chapter culminates with prototype of a theory of identity formation amid autocratisation, proposing that studying autocratisation requires serious engagement with the politics of identity not merely as an outcome of repression, but as a terrain of adaptation, resistance, and reinvention. The theory argues that identity formation amid autocratisation is a multi-scalar process involving top-down state strategies, bottom-up everyday practices, and horizontal networks of solidarity and meaning-making. In conclusion, I answer the research questions and debate whether Hong Kong is just another Chinese city now as well as what the future holds for Hong Kong’s ever contested identity
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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