Academic Fictions: A Tale of Two Value-Based Cities
I am very fatigued. Since the first day of 2020, something strange has happened to me. Every day I wake up to a different place – well, technically…
Tag: Hong Kong
The Two Singapores: Rethinking Migrant Domestic Care Work in COVID-19 by Wahid Al Mamun
“The Two Singapores” is an ongoing interview miniseries run by Somatosphere to interrogate Singapore’s COVID-19 response, in particular in its handling of the explosion of cases amo…
STS and Electoral Politics
In the context of the upcoming US presidential election and increasing evidence of the importance of voting infrastructure, this week we revisit past posts that highlight the key…
Long Read Review: Avian Reservoirs: Virus Hunters and Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts by Frédéric Keck
In Avian Reservoirs: Virus Hunters and Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts, Frédéric Keck offers a new ethnographic study of how human and animal relations are being reshaped in…
Platypus Celebrates AAPI Heritage Month
In celebration and recognition of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, take a look back at some of our favorite past posts from and about the region.…
Going Viral in Hong Kong
Disease is but the most obvious part of an epidemic. As coronavirus spreads, it fuels many other kinds of contagious forces. AN editor’s note: How can anthropology help…
Hongkong im Sommer 2019: Proteste und Plakatkunst
Während der Proteste in Hongkong im Sommer 2019 hat sich nicht nur eine spezielle Kommunikation über private Chatgruppen entwickelt, sondern auch eine besondere Art der Protestkunst. Die Plakate…
Optics and Fluidity: Evading Surveillance in Hong Kong
請點此閱讀中文版 Eyes in/on/for Hong Kong At the Hong Kong airport, thousands of protesters line the arrivals hall. Creating a corridor for passengers to walk through, they stand silently,…
China im Twitterstil – „Fast & Konfuzius – Mein Versuch, aus China schlau zu werden“
100 Tage in China mit nur exakt 100 Wörtern pro Tag beschreiben – der Schweizer M. Reist legt einen Reiseführer vor, der besonders die Lesegewohnheiten der Fans von…
Grounded Dreams?
Hong Kong and Hollywood face the challenges of a globalizing movie economy. Hortense Powdermaker’s analysis of a Hollywood movie industry driven by extreme uncertainty, anxiety, and crisis in…
Wahlen in Hongkong: Ein Fest für Zensur und Propaganda
Hongkongs Bevölkerung hat vor kurzem eine neue Legislativversammlung (LegCo) gewählt. Sowohl auf dem Festland als auch in Hongkong wurden mediale Berichterstattung und Netzbeiträge jedoch stark zensie…
Wahlen in Hongkong: Wohin will die Metropole?
Die chinesische Regierung versprach Hongkong 1997 weitreichende Autonomie bei der Aufnahme ins Reich der Mitte. Vielen Bürger der Großstadt geht die Autonomie jedoch nicht weit genug. Bei den…
Linguistic Challenges to China’s Centralizing Control
Challenges to authoritarian states’ control of language can be so complex that they exceed the states’ ability to manage them all. Electronic expression of resistance and increasi…
Workshop note on digital media and socio-political change
By Victor Lasa On 20 February 2015, Dr John Postill convened a workshop with fellow RMIT scholars and research students around the topic of “Digital media and socio-political…