中研院社會所12/7"Hong Kong as Puzzle: From Global City to Decolonial Subject"講座
2023-11-22
美國加州大學洛杉磯分校社會學系李靜君教授即將於12月至中研院社會所演講，歡迎踴躍報名參加！
講 題：Hong Kong as Puzzle: From Global City to Decolonial Subject
講 者：李靜君（Ching Kwan Lee；美國加州大學洛杉磯分校社會學系教授）
主 持：陳志柔（中央研究院社會學研究所所長）
時 間：2023.12.07（四）14：30-16：30
報 名：https://forms.gle/Ljy7esE4ibQz4fm57
地 點：中研院社會學研究所802會議室（人文社會科學館南棟8樓）
聯絡人：梁雅惠，as0200802@gate.sinica.edu.tw
講 題：Hong Kong as Puzzle: From Global City to Decolonial Subject
講 者：李靜君（Ching Kwan Lee；美國加州大學洛杉磯分校社會學系教授）
主 持：陳志柔（中央研究院社會學研究所所長）
時 間：2023.12.07（四）14：30-16：30
報 名：https://forms.gle/Ljy7esE4ibQz4fm57
地 點：中研院社會學研究所802會議室（人文社會科學館南棟8樓）
聯絡人：梁雅惠，as0200802@gate.sinica.edu.tw
演講簡介
Hong Kong under Chinese rule has witnessed two decades of protests, culminating in a mass uprising in 2019 that took the world by storm. Most academic analyses frame this history as a case, fitting and subordinating it to either the theoretical agenda of some preexisting scholarly literature (e.g. social movement or democratization) or the temporality and logic of macro historical processes (e.g. capitalism, colonialism, global China). This talk essays an alternative that reverses the epistemological coloniality implicit in these approaches. It entails (1) defining the object of inquiry from the subject position of Hong Kong, (2) constituting its uniqueness as a puzzle to be explained, (3) mobilizing and reconstructing theoretical and historical knowledge based on and useful for Hong Kong. I will illustrate this approach with an analysis of the rise of “decolonial subjectivity” in this global city against “double coloniality” at the interface of the world’s two major political economic systems.
Hong Kong under Chinese rule has witnessed two decades of protests, culminating in a mass uprising in 2019 that took the world by storm. Most academic analyses frame this history as a case, fitting and subordinating it to either the theoretical agenda of some preexisting scholarly literature (e.g. social movement or democratization) or the temporality and logic of macro historical processes (e.g. capitalism, colonialism, global China). This talk essays an alternative that reverses the epistemological coloniality implicit in these approaches. It entails (1) defining the object of inquiry from the subject position of Hong Kong, (2) constituting its uniqueness as a puzzle to be explained, (3) mobilizing and reconstructing theoretical and historical knowledge based on and useful for Hong Kong. I will illustrate this approach with an analysis of the rise of “decolonial subjectivity” in this global city against “double coloniality” at the interface of the world’s two major political economic systems.
講者簡介
Professor Ching Kwan Lee is a sociologist interested in global and comparative issues: labor, political sociology, global development, decolonization, comparative ethnography, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, and Africa. She has published three multiple award-winning monographs on contemporary China, forming a trilogy of Chinese capitalism through the lens of labor and working class experiences. Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women (California 1998) documents the organization of gender and work in factory regimes in Hong Kong and Shenzhen when South China first emerged as the workshop of the world. Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt (California 2007) chronicles the unmaking and making of the Chinese working class in two regional economies experiencing the death of socialism and the rise of capitalism respectively in one country. The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa (Chicago 2017) follows the footsteps of Chinese state investors to Zambia and compares its relation with African state and labor to other global private investors.
Her most recent publications include a short format book titled Hong Kong: Global China’s Restive Frontier (Cambridge 2022), and two co-edited volumes — Take Back Our Future: An Eventful Sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement (Cornell, 2019) and The Social Question in the 21st Century: A Global View (California 2019). She is working on a monograph Forever Hong Kong: A Global City’s Struggle for Decolonization (Harvard, under contract).
She is the series editor of Cambridge Elements in Global China, and a convener of the Global Hong Kong Studies @UC initiative.
【活動說明】本活動僅開放現場演講，無規劃線上參與形式。
Professor Ching Kwan Lee is a sociologist interested in global and comparative issues: labor, political sociology, global development, decolonization, comparative ethnography, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, and Africa. She has published three multiple award-winning monographs on contemporary China, forming a trilogy of Chinese capitalism through the lens of labor and working class experiences. Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women (California 1998) documents the organization of gender and work in factory regimes in Hong Kong and Shenzhen when South China first emerged as the workshop of the world. Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt (California 2007) chronicles the unmaking and making of the Chinese working class in two regional economies experiencing the death of socialism and the rise of capitalism respectively in one country. The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa (Chicago 2017) follows the footsteps of Chinese state investors to Zambia and compares its relation with African state and labor to other global private investors.
Her most recent publications include a short format book titled Hong Kong: Global China’s Restive Frontier (Cambridge 2022), and two co-edited volumes — Take Back Our Future: An Eventful Sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement (Cornell, 2019) and The Social Question in the 21st Century: A Global View (California 2019). She is working on a monograph Forever Hong Kong: A Global City’s Struggle for Decolonization (Harvard, under contract).
She is the series editor of Cambridge Elements in Global China, and a convener of the Global Hong Kong Studies @UC initiative.
【活動說明】本活動僅開放現場演講，無規劃線上參與形式。
