Presidential Address: Virtual Kinship, Real Estat, and Diaspora Formation—The Man Lineage Revisited

Watson, James L.

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“…While farming has been neglected in the local academia, the case of Choy Yuen Village has attracted research interest in activism and democratic movements (Chen and Szeto 2012;Huang and Ip 2012;Lam 2013). In comparison, the indigenous villages in the NT have attracted much more anthropological interest (Watson 2004;Chan, 1998;Faure, Hayes, and Birch, 1984) for its "tradition" as social construction embedded in colonialism (Huang 2017). The potential of situating the emergent interest in urban farming within the context of planning has remained underdeveloped.…”

Section: Contextualizing Farming and Land Consumption In Hong Kongmentioning

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Urban Farming as a Transformative Planning Practice: The Contested New Territories in Hong Kong

Huang

2018

Journal of Planning Education and Research

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This article presents an alternative approach to understanding urban farming. Through the lens of feminist theories of regenerative politics, it demonstrates that urban farming can be rearticulated as/for/from within a transformative planning practice. Drawing on planning practices in the less studied terrain of Hong Kong—the New Territories bordering mainland China—this article illustrates how urban farming can be seen as an enabling, cross-scale practice that nurtures the micro-politics of democracy in everyday life to reconnect and regenerate theories, practices, and boundaries.

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Section: Contextualizing Farming and Land Consumption In Hong Kongmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Farming as a Transformative Planning Practice: The Contested New Territories in Hong Kong

Huang

2018

Journal of Planning Education and Research

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“…Under the term 'diaspora' , another related conceptual framework has surfaced which has generated a vast amount of literature (see for example Clifford 1994;Watson 2004;Tsagarousianou 2004). This other approach has much in common with transnationalism, and the main difference is in the extent to which people's roots are stressed.…”

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Making a Living between Crises and Ceremonies in Tana Toraja

Jong¹

2013

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This publication has been typeset in the multilingual "Brill" typeface. With over 5,100 characters covering Latin, IPA, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. For more information, please see www.brill.com/brill-typeface.ISSN 1572-1892 ISBN 978-90-04-25240-0 (hardback) ISBN 978-90-04-25247-9 (e-book) Copyright 2013 by Edwin de Jong. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Global Oriental, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers and Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher.Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. This book is printed on acid-free paper.This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND License, which permits any non-commercial use, and distribution, provided no alterations are made and the original author(s) and source are credited.The realization of this publication was made possible by the support of KITLV (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies). Having obtained a MA in Development Studies and, in so doing, gained fieldwork experience on the effects of the economic crisis in Thailand, a whole new direction opened up. Not only did I need to study the history and context of a different Southeast Asian country (in this case Indonesia) and another language, I also had to absorb many aspects of another discipline, namely Cultural Anthropology. Some would argue that it is better to focus on a single discipline in one's education, rather than two, and it would definitely have shortened the process, but I have learnt that Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies have a lot to offer each other, and that their integration strengthens both fieldwork and analysis.Both Development Studies and Cultural Anthropology offer studies into similar topics, but from different perspectives (which sometimes oppose each other), and employ different research methods. However, this new learning route has taught me that both perspectives are highly intertwined, and that only by integrating the two perspectives can the 'logic' behind the way people in Tana Toraja make a living between crises and ceremonies be thoroughly understood. In line with my own experiences, I hope that this thesis stimulates further exchanges between anthropologists and academics from development studies. If it is successful in this, it will contribute to research methodology, the core concepts and theories of both disciplines and, most importantly, reduce one-sided misinterpretations of complex societies, by over-emphasizing either culture or socio-economics,...

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“…As they grew increasingly wealthy, for example, diasporic Chinese Man from Hong Kong dispersed in several countries sponsored lavish operas and rebuilt temples, ancestral halls, and schools in their home village in the 1970s as ritual life "boomed." In the next generation Man diasporic entrepreneurs aspiring to invest in China began to reconnect to their agnatic kin on the mainland and revitalize their apical ancestor's tomb and ancestral shrines in Jiangxi, which became a framework for "transborder business" (Watson 2004). Successful British Bangladeshi restaurateurs not only acquire large landholdings but religious status; after they die, ostentatious shrines are built for them in Sylhet as their families elevate them to the status of pirs (saints) .…”

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Migration and Culture

Werbner

2012

Oxford Handbook of the Politics of International Migration

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Moving from country to country is a dislocating experience. This chapter is concerned with such dislocations and relocations in an age of transnational migration. These movements generate two paradoxes of culture. The first and perhaps obvious paradox is that in order to put down roots in a new country, transnational migrants begin by setting themselves culturally and socially apart. The second, more theoretical, paradox is that in such encapsulated communities culture is open, changing, and fluid and yet experienced as a powerful imperative. As transnational migrants settle in a new country, they transplant and naturalize cultural categories, not simply because this is their tradition or culture, but because as active agents they have a stake in particular aspects of their culture. Culture as a medium of social interaction confers agency within a field of sociality and power relations. Yet the mere mention of culture in studies of migration invokes a conceptual minefield. Following Edward Said's Orientalism (1978), culture has come increasingly to be grasped as an essentializing concept that reifies, stereotypes, orientalizes, racializes, exoticizes, and distorts an "Other." Such critiques of culture have been repeatedly leveled by postmodernist and deconstructivist postcolonial and anthropological critics, 1 as well as by skeptical sociologists and social anthropologists. 2 A further conceptual conundrum in the study of culture and migration arises from the fact that culture is never merely individual, a portable piece of baggage

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Presidential Address: Virtual Kinship, Real Estat, and Diaspora Formation—The Man Lineage Revisited

Cited by 48 publications

References 30 publications

Urban Farming as a Transformative Planning Practice: The Contested New Territories in Hong Kong

Urban Farming as a Transformative Planning Practice: The Contested New Territories in Hong Kong

Making a Living between Crises and Ceremonies in Tana Toraja

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