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Community Responses to Disasters in the Pacific Rim presents
different aspects of place-making in displacement in the Pacific
Rim region. It focuses focus on how people respond and readjust to
changes and captures the long-term community development outcomes
and the critical moments that facilitate this development.
Interdisciplinary and using diverse research approaches, the book
includes contributions by authors from a variety of disciplines
across disaster research, sociology, urban planning, architecture,
anthropology, earth science, and education. Mixed methods are
adopted to carry out the research projects that ground this volume,
including qualitative research for social scientific research,
ethnographic methods and more importantly, Participatory Action
Research (PAR) is also included by authors who have a background in
design professions and a few indigenous scholars who are themselves
survivors of disasters. The chapters are structured in the
following five thematic sections: 1. Learning as place-making in
displacement 2. Gender and place-making in response to displacement
3. Community resilience in keeping indigenous sense of place 4.
Community (Re)building in displacement 5. Transnational
Place-making: Talk to the Actor. Understanding how affected
communities are recovering from their own perspectives, this book
will be of interest to academics in the fields of area studies,
political science, disaster planning and human geography.
Based on a transnational study of decommissioned, postcolonial
prisons in Taiwan (Taipei and Chiayi), South Korea (Seoul), and
China (Lushun), this book offers a critical reading of prisons as a
particular colonial product, the current restoration of which as
national heritage is closely related to the evolving
conceptualization of punishment. Focusing on the colonial prisons
built by the Japanese Empire in the first half of the twentieth
century, it illuminates how punishment has been considered a
subject of modernization, while the contemporary use of prisons as
heritage tends to reduce the process of colonial modernity to
oppression and atrocity - thus constituting a heritage of shame and
death, which postcolonial societies blame upon the former
colonizers. A study of how the remembering of punishment and
imprisonment reflects the attempts of postcolonial cities to
re-articulate an understanding of the present by correcting the
past, Heritage, Memory, and Punishment examines how prisons were
designed, built, partially demolished, preserved, and redeveloped
across political regimes, demonstrating the ways in which the
selective use of prisons as heritage, reframed through nationalism,
leaves marks on urban contexts that remain long after the prisons
themselves are decommissioned. As such, it will appeal to scholars
of sociology, geography, the built environment, and heritage with
interests in memory studies and dark tourism.
Based on a transnational study of decommissioned, postcolonial
prisons in Taiwan (Taipei and Chiayi), South Korea (Seoul), and
China (Lushun), this book offers a critical reading of prisons as a
particular colonial product, the current restoration of which as
national heritage is closely related to the evolving
conceptualization of punishment. Focusing on the colonial prisons
built by the Japanese Empire in the first half of the twentieth
century, it illuminates how punishment has been considered a
subject of modernization, while the contemporary use of prisons as
heritage tends to reduce the process of colonial modernity to
oppression and atrocity - thus constituting a heritage of shame and
death, which postcolonial societies blame upon the former
colonizers. A study of how the remembering of punishment and
imprisonment reflects the attempts of postcolonial cities to
re-articulate an understanding of the present by correcting the
past, Heritage, Memory, and Punishment examines how prisons were
designed, built, partially demolished, preserved, and redeveloped
across political regimes, demonstrating the ways in which the
selective use of prisons as heritage, reframed through nationalism,
leaves marks on urban contexts that remain long after the prisons
themselves are decommissioned. As such, it will appeal to scholars
of sociology, geography, the built environment, and heritage with
interests in memory studies and dark tourism.
Drawing upon the massive redevelopment catalyzed by the
government-led urban renewal in Hong Kong in the past two decades,
Shu-Mei Huang recharges the story of post-colonial Hong Kong
through care, displacement, and how care is displaced in urban
governance. Theorizing "carescapes" as a heuristic device, Huang
tracks how care is displaced, undervalued and even exploited in
transforming urban landscape. In a rather counter-intuitive way,
Urbanizing Carescapes of Hong Kong: Two Systems, One City considers
the post-colonial picturing of "One Country, Two Systems" as
insufficient if not misleading in understanding the city of Hong
Kong and its changing ties with the world. Huang illustrates the
way in which each urban citizen is propelled to be a
self-enterprising subject and local urban initiatives are becoming
cross-border investments upon global mobility. In an era when
putatively both the talents and capital are moving toward Asia, the
book illuminates how dynamism of colonialism is sustained rather
than disappears within the two systems in one city.
Drawing upon the massive redevelopment catalyzed by the
government-led urban renewal in Hong Kong in the past two decades,
Shu-Mei Huang recharges the story of post-colonial Hong Kong
through care, displacement, and how care is displaced in urban
governance. Theorizing “carescapes” as a heuristic device,
Huang tracks how care is displaced, undervalued and even exploited
in transforming urban landscape. In a rather counter-intuitive way,
Urbanizing Carescapes of Hong Kong: Two Systems, One City considers
the post-colonial picturing of “One Country, Two Systems” as
insufficient if not misleading in understanding the city of Hong
Kong and its changing ties with the world. Huang illustrates the
way in which each urban citizen is propelled to be a
self-enterprising subject and local urban initiatives are becoming
cross-border investments upon global mobility. In an era when
putatively both the talents and capital are moving toward Asia, the
book illuminates how dynamism of colonialism is sustained rather
than disappears within the two systems in one city.
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