Transnational Mobilities and the Making of Creative Cities

Kong, Lily

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“…This study focuses on academics who work in Higher Education systems at the city level, not at the country level. This analytical level is uncommon but accounts for the growing role of cities as Higher Education systems that contribute to the global knowledge economy (see Kong, ). The Higher Education systems under study, Hong Kong and Macau, are characterised by being multilingual, multicultural, postcolonial, geographically close and special administrative regions of China, but they differ in size, resources, international reputation, development stage, official languages (Portuguese in Macau; English in Hong Kong) and academic job market conditions (Chou, ).…”

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Effects of mobilities on the research output and its multidisciplinarity of academics in Hong Kong and Macau: An exploratory study

Horta

Jung

Santos

2018

Higher Education Quarterly

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This article explores how the past mobilities of academics affect their current research output (and its multidisciplinarity). Five types of mobility are used simultaneously in the analysis. Field mobility and transnational educational mobility are associated with academics' educational path, whereas transnational job mobility, intra‐sectoral job mobility and inter‐sectoral job mobility refer to their career path. The analysis is based on a representative sample of academics based in Hong Kong and Macau. Results show that intra‐sectoral job mobility (up to a threshold) and transnational job mobility positively affect research output and its multidisciplinarity, whereas inter‐sectoral job mobility, field mobility and transnational educational mobility exert slight or no effect. Nested analyses of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and non‐STEM academics as well as experienced and junior academics offer further insight into the roles of these mobilities. Impacts of mobile experience were stronger among junior than senior academics, and in STEM fields than non‐STEM fields. The article discusses these findings along with the significance of considering mobilities rather than mobility when analysing academic trajectories and the determinants of academic research production.

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Effects of mobilities on the research output and its multidisciplinarity of academics in Hong Kong and Macau: An exploratory study

Horta

Jung

Santos

2018

Higher Education Quarterly

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“…The multidimensional and cultural fluidity of moving across and between ethnoscapes is highlighted by experiences such Kevin’s. Athletes struggling with difference are relying on ICT to insulate them from these experiences (Kong, 2014). For Kevin, a monolingual English speaker, periods of his career had taken place in non-English speaking countries.…”

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“I Just Go on Wi-Fi”: Imagining Worlds Through Professional Basketball Migrants’ Deployment of Information and Communication Technology

Faulkner

Molnár

Kohe

2019

Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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The connection between athletes and technology has developed in recent years, with the focus on how lives are augmented and presented through this relationship. Building on previous reflections concerning the use of information and communication technology (ICT) to support the sometimes fractious experiences of sport migration, we suggest a need to develop our understandings of migrant athletes’ use of ICT by interrogating socially-embedded processes driving its usage. In so doing, we draw on 18 semistructured interviews with professional basketball migrants based (at the time) in the United Kingdom but whose seasonal work moves them frequently across the globe. We explore these participants’ experiences through the lens of Appadurai’s model of scapes and disjuncture. With this framework we explore themes of negotiation, need, expectation, and barriers. Consequently, we propose expanding how we understand migrant athletes’ relationships with technology.

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“…Florida's CC formula for urban regeneration became a paradigmatic example of a neoliberal “fast policy” advocated by a mega‐star expert (Kong ; Peck , , 2016). Among different formulations that direct cities how to generate urban growth, Florida's model is identified as a “people‐oriented approach” (Trip and Romein ).…”

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Making Jerusalem “Cooler”: Creative Script, Youth Flight, and Diversity

Keidar

2018

City & Community

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The creative city approach, already one of the most popular urban development models in recent years, continues to spread to new destinations. When urban scholars explain how ideas become canon, including the particular case of the creative city approach, they usually focus on political‐economic mechanisms, the role of global elite networks, and the interests of local economic growth coalitions. These explanations are insightful but miss the political‐cultural projects that cities pursue concurrently to the creative city approach, two aims that sometimes reinforce each other and sometimes contradict. Using interviews and fieldwork, I follow the importation of the creative city approach to the contested city of Jerusalem, and argue that the drive to adopt the creative script cannot be explained only by political‐economic forces, but also by the local political‐cultural projects of preserving Jerusalem as a Zionist city. Moreover, I suggest three directions for interpreting the role of local forces in the adoption and translation of urban ideas.

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Transnational Mobilities and the Making of Creative Cities

Cited by 38 publications

References 57 publications

Effects of mobilities on the research output and its multidisciplinarity of academics in Hong Kong and Macau: An exploratory study

Effects of mobilities on the research output and its multidisciplinarity of academics in Hong Kong and Macau: An exploratory study

“I Just Go on Wi-Fi”: Imagining Worlds Through Professional Basketball Migrants’ Deployment of Information and Communication Technology

Making Jerusalem “Cooler”: Creative Script, Youth Flight, and Diversity

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