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Rethinking the mechanism of the social impact assessment with the ‘right to the city’ concept: a case study of the Blue House Revitalization Project in Hong Kong (2006–2012)
Get PDFThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis (Routledge) via the DOI in this record.Over the past two decades, urban renewal has become a major means to increase the efficiency of land production in Hong Kong (HK). Although the Urban Renewal Authority (URA) and Hong Kong Housing Authority (HKHA) have introduced the social impact assessment (SIA) mechanism to mitigate the social impact of renewal projects, social conflicts have intensified between affected residents and the URA/HKHA. To what extent can SIA effectively mitigate the social impacts of urban renewal in HK? To answer this question, the author draws on a mixture of empirical and secondary materials to analyse the development, assessment procedures, and report format of SIA in HK as a basis to evaluate the challenges of this mechanism. Then the author goes on to critically analyse how thinking on ‘right to the city’ and affected residents’ comments come together to inform reflections on SIA in HK. The author argues that the SIA mechanism in HK remains technocratic in nature because it does not function effectively in addressing the needs of affected residents and resolving the deep-rooted conflicts between residents’ right of living and pro-growth development
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Capitalist pigs: Governmentality, subjectivities, and the regulation of pig farming in colonial Hong Kong, 1950-1970
Get PDFThis paper analyses the philanthropic governmentality of the Hong Kong colonial government during the Farm Improvement Program (1950–70), focusing on the utilization of pigs, interest-free loans, and the spatial constitution of pig farming as technologies to transform refugee farmers into ‘productive workers’. This research has three primary objectives: to (1) elucidate how the production of knowledge and governing technologies, including the spatial design of livestock production, facilitated the disciplining of pig farmers in a colonial context; (2) expand Foucauldian governmentality analysis into the realm of the regulatory mechanisms of food production systems by documenting how philanthropic pig donations, lending programmes, and the distribution of material benefits promoted capitalist pig production; and (3) demonstrate how technologies – specifically the social construction of pigs and the spatial constitution of pig farming practices – moulded the subjectivities of colonial pig farmers. Empirical analysis is based on archival research and in-depth interviews with 19 pig farmers and two pig farmers’ association leaders. We identify the provision of free pigs and pigsties, the demonstration of new spatial pig-raising practices, and the establishment of interest-free lending systems as the major technologies of governance employed under the Farm Improvement Program. Through these technologies refugee farmers from mainland China learned and internalized concepts of efficiency, productivity, farm management, and self-help. The technologies of the Farm Improvement Program were not just philanthropic activities, they were political tactics to confront the penetration of communism into the colony by changing the practices, productivity, and subjectivities of refugee farmers
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Coordinative conjunctions in Chinese dialects : a typological study
No full textWu (2003) investigated a number of coordinative conjunctions and stated that the coordinative conjunctions in Chinese were developed through the grammaticalization path: verb > comitative preposition > coordinative conjunction. Liu and Peyraube (1994) studied the historical texts from pre-Qin to Song Dynasties and they reached the same conclusion as Wu (2003). Liu (2003), however, argued that the coordinative conjunction taʔ 5搭 in the Wu dialect was grammaticalized directly from the verb. Despite that research has been carried out to investigate the use of coordinative conjunctions in Chinese dialects and classical Chinese, none of the previous research mentioned the situation in the Yue dialect. This present research aims at reconstructing the grammaticalization path of the coordinative conjunctions in several varieties of Yue as spoken in the Guangdong Province. The grammaticalization processes observed in Yue are to be compared with those in other Chinese dialects.Three findings are obtained in this study (i) The coordinative conjunctions in Guangdong Yue were developed from two possible grammaticalization paths, of which Path II is not observed in other Chinese dialects. Path I: verb > comitative preposition > coordinative conjunction (for animate nouns) > coordinative conjunction (for all nouns) > coordinative conjunction (for all nouns and adjectives) Path II: verb > coordinative conjunction (for adjectives) > coordinative conjunction (for all nouns and adjectives) (ii) For those lexical items from which the coordinative conjunctions in Chinese dialects were developed, there is a tendency that they share similar semantic properties, named as ‘physical proximity’, and (iii) two implicational hierarchies were observed in Chinese dialects, namely comitative > allative > ablative > locative, and comitative > allative > benefactive.</p
Coordinating conjunctions in Sinitic languages and beyond : towards a new typology
No full textThe thesis presents a typological study of coordinating conjunctions in Sinitic languages (Chinese dialects) and other languages of the world, with emphasis on grammaticalization pathways via which conjunctions arise. The aim of this research is two-fold: to reconstruct the main grammaticalization paths of coordinating conjunctions in Sinitic languages, and to make typological generalizations and classifications vis-à-vis the found pathways through cross-linguistic comparison based on a large enough sample of the world’s languages. Accordingly, the main body of this thesis is divided into two parts. Part 1 traces three major sources of coordinating conjunctions in Sinitic languages. (i) Comitative verbs. Our study begins by examining the grammaticalization path of [comitative > conjunction] in Yue from diachronic and synchronic perspectives (with data from 47 modern varieties of Yue and 19 early Cantonese colloquial texts). The generalizations obtained are verified with other Chinese dialects (113 dialects). It is also observed that the use of morphologically complex disyllabic conjunction is commonly attested in southern Chinese dialects; and the conjunction HE 和 in Chinese originated from its [co-patient] function. (ii) Causative verbs. The polygrammaticalization path of causative verbs including HAN 喊, huan 喚, JIAO 教, etc. is reconstructed based on the data from 257 Chinese dialects. (iii) The numeral item liangge. Our data from 125 Chinese dialects suggest that the grammaticalization of liangge in Gansu-Qinghai and Hunan-Hubei dialects is a result of the combined force of internal change and language contact (with local non-Sinitic languages). Part 2 proposes a new typology of coordinating conjunctions with additional data from non-Sinitic languages. The expanded database consists of first-hand data from 278 languages / language varieties (with 645 grams) and second-hand data from 829 languages/language varieties (with 888 grams). We formulate a hypothesis that receives strong support from out sample (98.8% of 158 languages), i.e., the Adjacency Hypothesis, which states that a comitative marker is eligible to be grammaticalized into a coordinating conjunction if it is placed directly adjacent to two NPs such as (co-)agents and (co-)patients. Our hypothesis is supported by 150 languages (99.3%). Furthermore, we propose that WITH-languages can be divided into three subtypes: the co-agent type, the co-patient type, and the bisyndetic type. Our cross-linguistic survey also reveals an extensive distribution of the polysemy of coordinating conjunctions and pluralizers (including the numeral TWO, dual/plural affixes, dual/plural pronouns, and associative plurals), which is attested in 84 languages in our database, scattering across various language families and distributed in different continents. Therefore, it is suggested that the AND/WITH dichotomy (Stassen 2000) should be modified so that languages can be classified into AND-languages, WITH-languages, and TWO-languages. Moreover, a semantic map of coordinating conjunctions and relevant functions is constructed. Comparing with previous maps by Haspelmath (2004), Zhang (2016), among others, our map enjoys a higher resolution with the node [NP-conjunction] divided into [animate conjunction] and [inanimate conjunction], and the node [comitative] into [co-agent] and [co-patient], which may bring a better understanding on how a gram expands its function through the animacy hierarchy.</p
Government regulation and governmentality in the Hong Kong pig farming industry, 1950-2008
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Contesting Urban Agriculture The politics of meat production in the License-Buy-Back Scheme (2006–2007) in Hong Kong
Get PDFRarely do people associate pig farming with the cityscape of Hong Kong. Hong Kong, however, has a long history of agricultural development since the British ruled the area after the First Opium War in 1842. Controlling the food supply was a crucial political maneuver for the British government to safeguard the colony’s stability and security. During the British rule, farming subsidies, technological extension services, and animal donations became the governing tactics to boost the production of vegetables, fisheries, and pigs (Chan, 2011). In 1978, China implemented an open-door policy and negotiated with the British government to export fresh food to Hong Kong. Since then, Hong Kong has depended heavily on Chinese imports of fresh vegetables, fish, and pork. This led to a dramatic decline in local food production. Recently, the desire to consume local products has increased because the public is concerned about food safety issues in China, ranging from milk powder contaminated with melamine, to recycled oil, and toxic chemical usage in the food production system. The rise and decline of agricultural activities in Hong Kong provides an opportunity to evaluate the conflicts over urban agriculture in specific time and space. There is a paucity of studies to examine why a higher value is assigned to certain forms of urban agriculture over others. 1 For instance, urban vegetable farming presents a more positive aesthetic image; urban pig farming differs from other types of agriculture because of associated sanitary risks, the need for manure management, and odor issues. This study employs a political ecology perspective informed by animal geographies to examine how the meat politics in the License-Buy-Back Scheme (LBBS) has become a tactic to reduce and control the pig farming industry in Hong Kong
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