URBAN CREATIVITY AND CULTURES

Co-ordinator: Dr Law Wing-sang

Dr. Law Wing-sang is Assistant Professor of Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University. Having earned his first and second degree in sociology from CUHK, he finished his doctoral work in cultural studies at University of Technology, Sydney in 2002. His research interests range from historical cultural studies of colonialism, comparative social thought, Hong Kong cultural formation to cultural and social theory. His doctoral dissertation Collaborative Colonialism: A Genealogy of Competing Chineseness in Hong Kong is going to be published by Hong Kong University Press next year. He also published articles in journals such as Positions. East Asian Culture Critique,Traces: A Multilingual Series of Cultural Theory and Translation and Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. He is also the editor of a number of cultural studies collection and translation works.

 

At the beginning of the 21st century more than half the world's population lives in cities: metropolitan regions, large and small, are undergoing dramatic transformation. In all their diversity and speed, these changes often neither originate in nor are limited to the Western world. Approaches to the urban that focus only on Western models of modernity and the effects of economic and social restructuring cannot do justice to the historically intricate nature of the urban cultures emerging today. The creative force of change now is found in public cultures situated in dynamic urban settings and ? brought into contact by global media industries, communication technologies and cultural economies of varying scale. Today, these worldly urban contact points' are catalysts for change and movement at all levels of society across the globe.

KFCRD RESEARCH ASSOCIATES:

JUNIOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATES :

• URBAN IMAGINARIES
• EAST ASIAN CULTURAL FLOWS: INDUSTRY, AUDIENCE, INNOVATION
• The CULTURAL TOURISM IN HONG KONG Workshop
• CULTURE CELEBRITY IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA

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