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題名 Urban Ecotopia? Young Farmers, Food Localism, and Cosmopolitanism in Postcolonial Hong Kong 作者 何浩慈
Ho, Hao-Tzu貢獻者 國發所 日期 2020-08 上傳時間 28-Sep-2021 09:11:53 (UTC+8) 摘要 This paper attends to the blur of the urban-rural divide and the nature-culture dualism in an unlikely setting, Hong Kong, where the idea of “countryside” is often perceived to be irrelevant. While urban expansion persists in this city, young people wish to go back to the land and grow local food. An urban ecotopia, as it seems to be, however, is underpinned by human mobilities and resources from the downtown. Rather than withdrawing from the city, agricultural activists promote discourses regarding the co-development of urban and rural areas. Through examining the historical, cultural, political, and economic contexts of Hong Kong since colonial times, this paper argues that the changing landscape is both internationally oriented and informed by local context. The social changes involve social reforms and shifting meanings of the rural and the urban. In the process, food serves as a mediator that connects “urbanites and countrymen,” “human and the environment,” and “the local and the global.” 關聯 Asia`s New Ruralities, Japanese Studies, Department of East Asian Studies 資料類型 conference dc.contributor 國發所 dc.creator (作者) 何浩慈 dc.creator (作者) Ho, Hao-Tzu dc.date (日期) 2020-08 dc.date.accessioned 28-Sep-2021 09:11:53 (UTC+8) - dc.date.available 28-Sep-2021 09:11:53 (UTC+8) - dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 28-Sep-2021 09:11:53 (UTC+8) - dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/137263 - dc.description.abstract (摘要) This paper attends to the blur of the urban-rural divide and the nature-culture dualism in an unlikely setting, Hong Kong, where the idea of “countryside” is often perceived to be irrelevant. While urban expansion persists in this city, young people wish to go back to the land and grow local food. An urban ecotopia, as it seems to be, however, is underpinned by human mobilities and resources from the downtown. Rather than withdrawing from the city, agricultural activists promote discourses regarding the co-development of urban and rural areas. Through examining the historical, cultural, political, and economic contexts of Hong Kong since colonial times, this paper argues that the changing landscape is both internationally oriented and informed by local context. The social changes involve social reforms and shifting meanings of the rural and the urban. In the process, food serves as a mediator that connects “urbanites and countrymen,” “human and the environment,” and “the local and the global.” dc.format.extent 126 bytes - dc.format.mimetype text/html - dc.relation (關聯) Asia`s New Ruralities, Japanese Studies, Department of East Asian Studies dc.title (題名) Urban Ecotopia? Young Farmers, Food Localism, and Cosmopolitanism in Postcolonial Hong Kong dc.type (資料類型) conference
