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The SARS crisis harshly exposed the fragility of Hong Kong’s geo-cultural and political predicament six years after the fateful reunification with China. We may say those have been years of atypical postcoloniality, and everyday life felt like it was suffering from a severe acute recession syndrome. It is necessary to see that the failure in local governance in relation to SARS must in fact be seen in light of concrete practices of “urbanity” specific to the position of Hong Kong. By “urbanity,” I mean to bring together a specific connection between SARS and the new imaginations of urban space in Hong Kong during the current moment of rapid integration with the mainland. I therefore mean to shift our attention away from seeing SARS as a disease syndrome with a medical--- and political---virulence, to seeing it as a locus for emergent forms of urban practices specific to our current stage of postcoloniality. |
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Name: International Communication Association
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| Erni, John. "SARS and the Urban Double-take" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, New Orleans Sheraton, New Orleans, LA, May 27, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p112757_index.html> |
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| Erni, J. N. , 2004-05-27 "SARS and the Urban Double-take" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, New Orleans Sheraton, New Orleans, LA Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p112757_index.html |
Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
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Abstract: The SARS crisis harshly exposed the fragility of Hong Kong’s geo-cultural and political predicament six years after the fateful reunification with China. We may say those have been years of atypical postcoloniality, and everyday life felt like it was suffering from a severe acute recession syndrome. It is necessary to see that the failure in local governance in relation to SARS must in fact be seen in light of concrete practices of “urbanity” specific to the position of Hong Kong. By “urbanity,” I mean to bring together a specific connection between SARS and the new imaginations of urban space in Hong Kong during the current moment of rapid integration with the mainland. I therefore mean to shift our attention away from seeing SARS as a disease syndrome with a medical--- and political---virulence, to seeing it as a locus for emergent forms of urban practices specific to our current stage of postcoloniality. |
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| SARS and the Urban Double-take ([WHQGHG $EVWUDFW For Hong Kong the spring of 2003 was a season of uncomfortable and sudden shifts in the city’s spatial and temporal coordinates. A public health as well as political emergency SARS threw us back into the troubled waters of ambiguous dependency characteristic of our own peculiar three-legged existence with one foot in China a second in globalism and a third in a localism that is increasingly difficult to define. The SARS crisis |
| we do need images to cheer us up it is nonetheless important as to how we use images of our colonial past to decipher our neo-colonial future engendered by our inevitable fate of jagged unification through x-urban expansion. i As the epidemic progressed buildings became the unit for epidemiological reporting of SARS cases (confirmed or suspected). There was thus the idea of “infected buildings” as a standing unit alongside the number of people infected. The difference was that the |
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