Posted at : 2013-12-10
*UPDATED: Video Recordings are now available online.
The Workshop
On
Social Justice and the City
By
Department of Geography
Hong Kong Baptist University
On
4th – 6th December, 2013
At
AAB 1312
Academic and Administration Building
Baptist University Road Campus
Hong Kong Baptist University
Sponsor Research Committee, Hong Kong
Baptist University
Co-Sponsors: Research Grant (250012), Hong Kong Research Grants Council, The Government of Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region
Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University
Forum for Asian Studies, Stockholm
University
HKBU Century Club
Hong Kong Critical Geography Group
Minor Programme in Social Justice and
Equality*, Faculty of Social Sciences, Hong Kong Baptist University (* subject
to approval)
Programme
4th December, 2013
9:00 – 9:10 Registration
9:10 – 9:25 Welcoming
Ceremony
Rick
W.K. WONG, Vice President (R & D), Hong Kong Baptist University
Adrian
BAILEY, Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Hong Kong Baptist University
9:25 – 9:30 Group Photo-taking
Understandings of Social Justice and the
City: Empire & Revolution, Transtopia and Risk Society
Chair:
Don MITCHELL, Department of Geography, Syracuse University
9:30 – 10:10 Stefan
KIPFER, The Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
“Empire,
‘City’ and Revolution: Horizons for Social Justice”
10:10 – 10:50 Christina
WEST, Economic Geography, University of Mannheim
“Transtopia
and Transversal Urbanisms: Altered Challenges for Social Justice”
10:50 – 11:30 On-Kwok
LAI, Graduate School of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University
“Questioning
Social Justice in Hyper-Modernizing Transnational Urbanism: Contradictions of
the (Global) World City in the Informational Age”
11:30 – 11:45 Tea Break
Understandings of Social Justice and the City:
Challenges from the Global South by the Subaltern and the Post-structuralist
Chair:
Kwok-kin Fung, Department of Social Work, Hong Kong Baptist University
11:45 – 12:25 Nihal
PERERA, Department of Urban Planning, Ball State University
“Social
Justice the Subaltern: The Struggle in a Small Settlement in Bhubaneswar,
India”
12:25 – 1:05 Solomon
BENJAMIN, Humanities and Social Science, Indian Institute of Technology –
Madras
“Everyday
Occupancies and the Practice of Social Justice”
1:05 – 2:35 Lunch
Development Models as Sources of Injustice
(1): ‘State Mode of Production’?
Chair:
Anne HAILA, Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki
2:35 – 3:15 Kam
Wing CHAN, Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle
“Right
to the City and the Chinese Hukou System”
3:15 – 3:55 Tammy
K.P. WONG, Urban Sociology, Singapore-ETH Centre, and Wing-Shing TANG,
Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University
“Spatial
Production of Injustice: Tangxia Town, Dongguan”
3:55 – 4:10 Tea Break
Development Models as Sources of Injustice
(2): Democratic Movement as an Incubator?
Chair:
Nihal PERERA, Department of Urban Planning, Ball State University
4:10 – 4:50 Murat
ES, Department of Geography, University of Hong Kong, and Rolien S. HOYNG,
Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University
“‘Everywhere
is Taksim’: Reclaiming the Spaces and Times of Politics”
4:50 – 5:10 Eva
HANSSON, Department of Political Science and the Forum of Asian Studies,
Stockholm University
“A
Tale of Two Cities: Inequality, Protests and State Reponses in Hanoi and Ho Chi
Minh City”
5:10 – 5:25 Break
Rent Gap as a Propeller: In Memory of Neil
Smith
Chair:
Solomon BENJAMIN, Humanities and Social Science, Indian Institute of Technology
– Madras
5:25 – 6:05 Anne
HAILA, Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki
“The
Concept of Rent Gap Reconsidered”
6:05 – 6:45 Lisa
Kim DAVIS, Department of Geography and Center for Korean Studies, University of
California Los Angeles
“City Building and
Social Justice”
7:30 – 9:30 Welcome Dinner
5th December, 2013
Socio-environmental Justice
Chair:
Eva HANSSON, Department of Political Science and the Forum of Asian Studies,
Stockholm University
9:00 – 9:40 Garth MYERS, Urban Studies Program,
Trinity College Hartford
“Seeking
Socio-environmental and Spatial Justice in African Cities”
9:40 – 10:20 Masato
MORI, Faculty of Humanities, Mie University
“(In)mobility
and Citizenship: Social Injustice in the Cities after the Disaster of Fukushima
in Japan”
10:20 – 10:35 Tea Break
Development Models as Sources of Injustice
(3): Being Old is Insane?
Chair:
Toshio MIZUUCHI, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University
10:35 – 11:15 Jackie
YC Kwok, School of Design, the Hong Kong Polytechnic
“Struggle
for the right to Life in the City: Appropriation of Urban Space by Older People
in Hong Kong”
Dialectics of Spatial Injustice:
High-density Development and Everyday Politics
Chair:
Hon Chu LEUNG, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University
11:15 – 11:55 Wing-Shing
TANG, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, and Joanna
Wai-Ying LEE, Department of Geography and Resource Management and The Centre
for Environmental Policy and Resource Management, The Chinese University of
Hong Kong
“Spatiality
of (In)justice in High-density Development in Hong Kong”
11:55 – 12:35 Bhuvaneswari
RAMAN, Jindal School of Government and Public Policy
“The
Production of Spatial (In)justice in Indian Cities: Spatial Claims and the
Right to the City Agenda”
12:35 – 2:05 Lunch
Spatial Management (1): The political action
and the Aged
Chair:
Jackie YC Kwok, School of Design,
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
2:05 – 2:45 Lynn
A. STAEHELI, Department of Geography, Durham University, and Kafui ATTOH,
Murphy Institute for Labor Studies, City University of New York
“Whose
City? What Politics? Contentious and Non-contentious Spaces on Colorado’s Front
Range”
2:45 – 3:25 Geerhardt
KORNATOWSKI and Toshio MIZUUCHI, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University
“Social
Mixing without ‘Stealth Gentrification’? A Case Study on Guesthouses for
Long-term International Visitors in North Nishinari, Osaka”
3:25 – 3:40 Tea Break
Spatial Management (2): Business Model Vs
Regeneration Projects
Chair:
Christina WEST, Economic Geography, University of Mannheim
3:40 – 4:20 Tomonaga
HORIGUCHI, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University
“The
Incentive and Commitment of Stakeholders in the Business at Base of the Pyramid
– A Structural Analysis and Verification by Accra City, Ghana”
4:20 – 5:00 Young
A. LEE, Department of Geography Education, Daegu University
“The
Exclusion of Residents from Neighbourhood Regeneration Projects”
5:00 – 5:15 Break
Struggles over Space (1): University and Dock
Chair:
Bhuvaneswari RAMAN, Jindal School of Government and Public Policy
5:15 – 5:55 Don
MITCHELL, Department of Geography, Syracuse University, Kafui ATTOH, Murphy
Institute for Labor Studies, City University of New York, and Lynn STAEHELI,
Department of Geography, Durham University
“Social
Justice and the Sausage Factory: Struggles in and over the University in the US
and UK”
5:55 – 6:35 Hon
Chu LEUNG, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University
“Rebel
City Contesting Decontextualized Capitalism: Urban Contentions and Dock
Workers’ Strike in Hong Kong, 2013”
7:30 – 9:30 Dinner Break
6th December, 2013
Struggle over Space (2); Mobility and
Street
Chair: Joanna Wai-Ying LEE, Department of
Geography and Resource Management and The Centre for Environmental Policy and
Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
8:45 – 9:25 C.
RAMACHANDRAIAH, Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Begumpet
“Mobility
and Streets in Indian Cities: Contestations on Equity and Exclusion”
9:25 – 10:05 Yannan
DING, Department of Urban Planning, Hefei University of Technology
“Reappropriate
through Occupation: The Case of Contingent Parking in the Street of Chinese
Cities “
10:05 – 10:20 Tea Break
10:20 – 11:00 Right to Redevelop (1): The Working Class
and the Ordinary
Chair:
Stefan KIPFER, The Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
Chen
YANG, The School of Urban Planning. Tongji University
“The
Discourse of Social Justice in a Working-class Neighbourhood: The Case of
Caoyang in Shanghai”
11:00 – 11:40 Shannon
WALSH, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong
“Rights
and Wrongs: The Contradictions of Urban Renewal in a Johannesburg Neighourhood”
11:40 – 12:20 King-lai
WONG and Kwok-kin FUNG, Department of Social Work, Hong Kong Baptist University
“Exploration
of the Institutional Impact on Urban Renewal: A Case of Hong Kong”
12:20 – 1:10 Quick Lunch
Right to Redevelop (2): Cultural Vs
Commercial Regeneration
Chair:
Garth MYERS, Urban Studies Program, Trinity College Hartford
1:10 – 1:50 Yun-Chung
CHEN, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University, and Mirana May
SZETO, Department of Comparative Literature, The University of Hong Kong
“Right
to the City: Preserving Our Neighbourhood Movement in Hong Kong”
1:50 – 2:30 Johannes
KIENER, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University
“Between
Commercial Gentrification and Urban Regeneration: The Case of the Nakazaki
Neighbourhood in Osaka”
Roundtable Discussion
2:30 – 3:00 Chair:
Wing-Shing TANG
3:30 – 7:00 Field Trip: Encountering Injustice on the Ground
7:30 – 9:30 Farewell Dinner