INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
Polarisation,
Fragmentation and
Resilience:
Four Urban Contexts Compared
Hong Kong Baptist University
David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies (LEWI)
29 Nov-1 Dec 2017
Programme
Tuesday, 28 November 2017
Venue: DLB702, 7/F, David C. Lam Building, Shaw Campus, HKBU
18:30 - 20:30 Conference Registration and Reception
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Wednesday, 29 November 2017
Venue: WLB109, 1/F, David C. Lam Building, Shaw Campus, HKBU
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Time Programme
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09:00 - 09:20 Opening Remarks
Si-ming Li
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09:20 - 10:20 Keynote Speech
Ray Forrest Real estate cities - polarised tenures,
fragmented markets, resilient families?
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10:20 - 10:50 Tea/Coffee Break
10:50 - 12:55 Session 1 Residential Segregation 1
Chair/Discussant: Shenjing He
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Owen Crankshaw Social polarisation and the post-Fordist spatial
order in Greater Johannesburg, 1970-2011
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Joowon Jeong Residential segregation, migration, and food
Cathy Liu* access disparity in Atlanta
Si-ming Li* Immigration and residential differentiation:
Huimin Du Hong Kong post-1997
Pu Hao
Yiqing Gan* Rural-urban migration and elderly
Eric Fong representation in small and medium-sized
Chinese cities
Pu Hao* Residential satisfaction of juveniles in Hong
Si-ming Li Kong: findings from a 2017 survey of
secondary school students
12:55 - 14:00 Lunch Buffet
14:00 - 16:05 Session 2 Socio-Spatial Polarisation
Chair/Discussant: Donggen Wang
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Aparna Ashok Phadke Life and survival strategies of working class in
the gentrified mill areas of Mumbai: an
ethnographic analysis
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Sin Yee Koh* Exacerbating inequalities and socio-spatial
Bart Wissink segregation in Hong Kong: spotlight on the
invisible and invisibilised labour of
intermediaries
Yimin Zhao “The beaten thieves are eating meat!” Hukou
delineation, land businesses and class
reconstitution in China’s urban age
Dong Dong Rare, and unfair: Social disparities and health
inequity experienced by people with rare
diseases in urban and rural China
Felicia Tian* Urbanization and individual-level social capital
Yu Fu in China
16:05 - 16:30 Tea/Coffee Break
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16:30 - 18:10 Session 3 Migrant Experience
Chair/Discussant: Zhilin Liu
Limei Li Exit, voice, or loyalty? Migrants’ responses to the education barriers in Chinese cities
Jing Song Migration experience and cohabitation union: a
Weiwen Lai* multifaceted story
Shafei Gu Migrants' family reunion in China: from a
perspective of migration pattern
Karen Harris Interstitial spaces: the urban history of the
Chinese in South Africa
Thursday, 30 November 2017
Venue: WLB109, 1/F, David C. Lam Building, Shaw Campus, HKBU
Time Programme
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09:00 - 10:00 Keynote Speech
Risa Palm Cities and climate change
10:00 - 10:20 Tea/Coffee Break
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10:20 - 12:00 Session 4A Urban Youth
Chair/Discussant: Pu Hao
Eric Wright* Struggling to count and respond to the needs of
Ana Laboy homeless youth in metro-Atlanta
Can Cui* Housing inequality among young generation in
Youqin Huang urban China: an intergenerational perspective
Fenglong Wang
Fenglong Wang* Subjective well-being of young adults in Chinese
Donggen Wang large cities: why are they dissatisfied?
Can Cui
Nikhil Vilas Status of scheduled caste community in the era of
Gawai globalization: a case study of Mumbai metropolitan
region
10:20 - 12:00 Session 4B Neighbourhood Experience
(WLB105) Chair/Discussant: Guo Chen
Huimin Du* Intergroup contact and prejudice in newly-built
Jing Song urban neighbourhoods in Northwestern China
Si-ming Li
Yiming Tan Neighbourhood characteristics, social capital, and
Yanwei Chai neighbourhood activity participation of rural
Zhilin Liu* migrants in urban china: a case study of Beijing
Chao Yuan The everyday ‘spatial struggle’ of three categories
of urban residents in two typical poor
neighbourhoods in the Chinese city of Xi’an during
urbanisation and the transition to a market
economy—a Bourdieusian explanation
Si-ming Li Residential mobility and neighbourhood attachment
Sanqin Mao* in Guangzhou, China
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Renfrew Restaurant
13:30 - 15:10 Session 5A Urban (Re)development
Chair/Discussant: Si-ming Li
Bin Li Authoritarian resilience and adaptive governance:
the case of urban redevelopment in Guangzhou,China
Boyi Wang Institutional uncertainty, fragmented urbanization
Li Tian* and spatial lock-in of peri-urban area of China: a
Zhihao Yao case of industrial land redevelopment in Panyu
Mary Ann The movement to preserve Hubei Ancient Village:
O'Donnell from deterritorialised praxis to spatialized identities
in Shenzhen
Romain Dittgen Materiality, everyday experience and the limits to
‘time-space compression’: thinking through and
across a large-scale urban development project in
Johannesburg, South Africa
13:30 - 15:10 Session 5B Urban Infrastructure
(WLB105) Chair/Discussant: Cathy Liu
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Alex Wafer Infrastructure and the materiality of citizenship in
Johannesburg
Zeli Lin Polarizing formalization in reducing polarization:
rural fading while urban rising in the e-waste
processing industry
Tomer Chelouche The Tiebout model and local government
expenditures in Israel
Brennan Collins ATLMaps: deep mapping partnerships
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15:10 - 15:30 Tea/Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:35 Session 6 Residential Segregation 2
Chair/Discussant: Owen Crankshaw
Gizem Arat Understanding the ways of promoting urban
resilience in ethnically diverse Hong Kong
Sui Tao* Ethnic minority, enclaves and job accessibility in
Sylvia He Hong Kong
Shuli Luo
Venus Dulani
Yue Ray Gong* Residential segregation in China: from institution based
Yanning Wei to planning-driven
Ying Chang The co-existence and social segregation of home
place in a new town-a close examination of one
involving medium-sized town in Yangtze delta
Michael White Migration, urban settlement, and spatial
polarization: insights from China and South Africa
20:00 - 22:00 Dinner “A Symphony of Light” Dinner Cruise
Friday, 1 December 2017
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Field Visit
Option one: Tsuen Wan
Option two: Kennedy Town
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The Conference
29 November - 1 December 2017
Different economic, social and political trajectories have resulted in varying patterns of spatial fragmentation, which is related to factors such as access to employment, income and wealth inequality, housing affordability, and racial and ethnic segregation, and is informed in major part by their urban morphologies.
The conference represents an international collaboration to conduct comparative analysis on the nature and manifestations of urban socio-spatial polarisation, fragmentation and segregation in USA, South Africa, Hong Kong and mainland China, with a view to identifying policy initiatives to enhance urban resilience. In addition to paper sessions, a one-day field excursion to public housing estates and other neighbourhoods in Hong Kong will be held.
Objectives
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To investigate the impacts of economic restructuring on access to and quality of employment, with special reference to the global trajectories of the above four urban contexts and the different experiences of polarisation and fragmentation that have resulted;
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To identify the distinct racial and ethnic dimensions that affect access to housing and employment, such as: in-migration from mainland China and elsewhere in Hong Kong; rapid urbanization in mainland China under hukou delineation; migration of Black South Africans into Cape Town and Pretoria since the end of Apartheid; and the changing patterns of racial segregation and international in-migration in Atlanta, in the context of state policies on migration, housing and employment that either exacerbate or moderate polarisation and fragmentation; and
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To decipher the nature and extent of urban resilience in coping with problems of polarisation and fragmentation.
About
Conference Organizer
David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies (LEWI)
David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies (LEWI) is a consortium of 28 universities from North America, Europe and Asia. The Institute, with Hong Kong Baptist University as the host institution and base, was established in 1993 with the aim to foster inter-disciplinary social science and humanities research and cultivate collaborative scholarship between the East and the West.
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LEWI has two missions: 1) to promote mutual understanding between East and West through research, academic exchange, and other scholarly activities; and 2) to promote inter-disciplinary research in social sciences and humanities from both the perspectives of the East and West.
Over the years LEWI has made strenuous efforts in performing and reconciling its dual roles as an international consortium of universities and a university-wide research unit
Organising Committee:
Prof. Owen Crankshaw
University of Cape Town
Prof. Chrisna Duplessis
University of Pretoria
Prof. Ann-Margaret Esnard
Georgia State University
Dr. Pu Hao
Hong Kong Baptist University
Dr. Adrienne La Grange
City University of Hong Kong
Prof. Si-ming Li
Hong Kong Baptist University
Dr. Cathy Liu
Georgia State University
Dr. Jun Wang
City University of Hong Kong
Sponsors
Urban Studies Foundation
Hong Kong Baptist University