scholarly journals The Carceral City: Confinement and Order in Hong Kong’s Forbidden Enclave

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Fraser ◽  
Anna Schliehe
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Mainland Chinese ◽  
Civil Unrest ◽  
Contested Space ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Carceral Geography

Abstract Once feted, Hong Kong has recently become a centre of civil unrest. In this paper, we situate these emergent politics through a case study of corruption and everyday life in Kowloon Walled City, a mainland Chinese enclave in British Hong Kong, which developed notoriety as a freestanding grey economy. Drawing from oral testimonies of police officers, triad members and local residents, we excavate the lived experience of confinement within this contested space. These accounts reconstruct the Walled City as a ‘quasi-carceral’ site of enclosure, a zone of colonial exceptionalism and a hybrid cultural space. Through this case study, we historicize current debates in carceral geography, humanize recent interventions in urban scholarship and analyse the shifting politics at the frontier of Chinese expansionism.

The Significance of the Hermeneutics of Play for Gamification

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 13-23
Author(s):  
Kosti Joensuu ◽  
Sanna Ryynänen
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Theoretical Consideration ◽  
Phenomenological Hermeneutics ◽  
Phenomenological Perspective ◽  
Academic Discussion ◽  
Virtual Game

Games and play are increasingly significant in everyday life. Thus, a philosophical and theoretical consideration of these concepts is needed. This article uses phenomenological hermeneutics to discuss games, play, and gamification; it also addresses the development of gamifying planes within gamification studies. It hypothesizes that the academic discussion of gamification becomes more valid, ontologically, by focusing on the phenomenon and lived experience of play and playing from a phenomenological perspective. It presents an upcoming practical intervention, an empirical research design of case study of playing a virtual game, to demonstrate how the essence of play and the integrated spheres of virtual and real worlds could be approached. Thus, it could provide valuable information that is needed in the fast-developing domain of interventions in gamification and the game-business. On the basis of this study's theoretical findings, a broader ontological notion is suggested to overcome the subjectifying notion of player and the objectifying notion of games and play.

Ethics Askew: A Case Study Of Ethics In An Educational Environment

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Susan Shurden ◽  
Juan Santandreu ◽  
Mike Shurden
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Civil Unrest ◽  
Clean Environment ◽  
Standards Of Conduct ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
E Mail

For a formal definition of ethics, Webster’s New World Dictionary (1995) defines the term as “the study of standards of conduct and moral judgment”. Ethics is important to individuals because we are concerned with what leaders do and who they are—their conduct and character. “Conduct” is a word that implies behavior. Behavior can change under differing circumstances. For instance, in a “low key”, unstressed situation, most individuals tend to be civil and polite; however, the introduction of stress factored into a scenario can totally change the dynamics of the situation, as well as the ability of those involved to “cope”. Stress can cause individuals to become hostile, rebellious, and oftentimes uncompromising. Stress introduced into a situation can also cause individuals to become unethical. For example, take natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005 whereby individuals were under tremendous stress of discomfort from not having a clean environment in which to live, as well as conditions of hunger and thirst from lack of food and fresh water. Most of us have witnessed the television footage of the “looting” that occurred from these conditions. Or take the civil unrest that occurred in the streets of Los Angeles after the verdict of 1992 when police officers were acquitted of the beating of an African American named Rodney King. Again, anger and stress caused looting and violence to erupt in the streets. While these are “extreme” situations, the question arises as to how individuals cope with stress in an atmosphere where civility is taught and encouraged. For instance, consider a classroom situation where an assignment to produce an outcome is given with few rules, and the members of the group are from other classes, possibly even in other states. The means of communication for these individuals are e-mail, a relatively new virtual reality website, similar to face book, or telephone should one choose to use that method. This type of situation would most likely exist in a graduate program and in fact, did. This paper is a case study of just that type of situation.

Posthistoricity

2019 ◽  
pp. 157-195
Author(s):  
Victor Fan
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Industrial Transformation ◽  
Civic Society ◽  
Mainland Chinese ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
1997 Handover ◽  
Economic Partnership

This chapter examines Hong Kong-Mainland co-productions made under the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA). CEPA facilitated the collaboration between Mainland Chinese investors and Hong Kong filmmakers to produce films that are supposed to cater to audiences in both regions. This triggered a renewed effort to individuate, subjectivise, and autonomise Hong Kong’s sociopolitical voice and position in these co-productions, which requires an active rewriting and re-understanding of extraterritoriality in the aftermath of the 1997 handover as a form of posthistoricity: (1) as a continual performance of a civic society that had already failed under global neoliberalism; (2) as an invocation of a new assembly of biopolitical lives that are eager to form a new civic society. This chapter first explicates the sociopolitical conditions and affects in Hong Kong after 1997. It then expounds how CEPA emerged out of a complex process of industrial transformation under neoliberalism between the 1990s and the early 2000s and how scholars evaluate the first ten years of Hong Kong-Mainland co-productions after CEPA. With such a background in mind, it scrutinises how Hong Kong filmmakers confront the crisis of authorship under CEPA in three registers––industrial, creative, and sociopolitical––with close attention to Johnnie To as a case study.

Space in a Social Movement: A Case Study of Occupy Central in Hong Kong in 2014

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 434-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu Wang ◽  
Yu Ye ◽  
Chris King-chi Chan
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Physical Nature ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The Social ◽  
Occupy Central

Few studies have examined the role of space in social movements. The existing studies have primarily emphasized the physical nature of space (e.g., space as distance) and overlooked other attributes of space, such as space as the materialization of power relations and space as lived experience. In this article, we explore the role of space in social movements based on a case study of the Occupy Central in Hong Kong in 2014. During the protest, the organizers occupied and reconfigured the campuses and mobilized the participants both through and in space. We find that the campus space helped stimulate the feelings and emotions of the students and increased their enthusiasm to participate in the demonstration. The participants were then sent from the campuses (mobilization spaces) to the demonstration spaces where they occupied and transformed the urban public spaces into private spaces, thus leading to contention over and of space with the state powers. Our findings reveal that the campus space is an important resource that organizers can use for mobilization. We also find that the special features of a campus, including aggregation, networks, isolation, and homogeneity, can facilitate the formation of social movements. We argue that the three attributes of space interact with one another in facilitating the social movement. Thus, our findings suggest that space acts as not only the vessel of struggle but also a useful tool and a target of struggle.

Position, experience, and knowledge creation: A longitudinal case study of Chinese academic networks

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 1009-1018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Su-Chin Chiu
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Longitudinal Case Study ◽  
Mainland Chinese ◽  
Network Position ◽  
Academic Networks ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

I investigated the impact of experience and network position on knowledge creation in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China with panel data on 229 scholars and 1,655 publications. Quantitative analysis of the data demonstrated an inverse U-shaped relationship between network position and knowledge creation. Additionally, tests of the different moderating impacts of experience revealed that experience negatively moderates the relationship between position and knowledge creation in the regions of Taiwan and Hong Kong, whereas it positively moderates the relationship in mainland Chinese samples.

Anti-mainland feeling fuels Hong Kong radical groups

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mainland Chinese ◽  
Political Autonomy ◽  
Legislative Council ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Visitor Numbers

Significance The violence was the worst Hong Kong has witnessed since protesters clashed with police during the 2014 'Umbrella Protests' which demanded greater political autonomy from mainland China. Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, Hong Kong's top political official, swiftly denounced the violent attacks on police officers and journalists and vowed to prosecute instigators. Impacts Local outbreaks of violent protesting will have little impact on tourism or international business in the short term. Public anger will prompt the chief executive's administration to distance itself from mainland Chinese authorities. China will support some measures that lessen Hong Kong anger over the impact of Chinese tourism, such as further curbs on visitor numbers. Pro-localisation forces will seek greater representation in the Legislative Council elections slated for September 2016.

scholarly journals IMMIGRANTS AS VOTERS IN ELECTORAL AUTOCRACIES: THE CASE OF MAINLAND CHINESE IMMIGRANTS IN HONG KONG

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stan Hok-Wui Wong ◽  
Ngok Ma ◽  
Wai-man Lam
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Chinese Immigrants ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Mainland Chinese ◽  
Public Opinion Surveys ◽  
Mainland Chinese Immigrants

AbstractMigration to electoral autocracies has become increasingly common. Extant studies, however, accord little attention to the immigrants' influences on the domestic politics of these regimes. We argue that immigrants have attributes (status quo bias and lack of prior exposure to local politics) that make them an attractive co-optation target of the authoritarian regime. We provide a case study of mainland Chinese immigrants in Hong Kong to illustrate our argument. Since the sovereignty transfer, the Hong Kong government has devised various schemes to attract these immigrants, while pro-establishment political parties and groups have actively sought to co-opt them. Using two distinct public opinion surveys, we also find that immigrants are more likely to approve of the political and economic status quo, and less likely to vote for pro-democracy opposition parties than the natives. In addition, we find no evidence that exposure to political information can change the immigrants' vote choice.

Green Certification, Credit Rating, and Mainland Chinese Green Bonds in Hong Kong

2022 ◽  
pp. 131-149
Author(s):  
Chak Sham Wong ◽  
Stan H. M. Ho
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Credit Rating ◽  
Assessment Framework ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Mainland Chinese ◽  
Rating Agencies ◽  
Bond Issuers ◽  
Global Investors ◽  
Green Certification

This chapter discusses green certification and credit rating on Mainland Chinese green bonds in Hong Kong. These green bonds are mostly denominated in USD, distributed to global investors, and issued with international practices of green certification and credit rating. Using qualitative analysis and case study method, the chapter finds four external reviewers sharply different in their assessment framework although they attempt to assess degree of compliance of a bond issuance or a bond issuer with some international green standards. All the three global credit rating agencies claim their incorporation of green assessment into their credit rating process. However, the chapter finds no clear evidence on such claim from their credit rating comments on selected bond issuers.

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