Ethni–cities: urbanization and ethnic space in China

主講嘉賓：Tim Oakes

時間：4月27日 下午3-5點

地點：馬丁堂二樓多功能廳

嘉賓簡介：美國科羅拉多大學地理系教授、亞洲研究中心主任，他目前也是香港人文社會科學學院的訪問教授。他的研究主要包括中國的區域性文化發展，文化和旅遊産業，文化遺産，以及地域認同等等。除了無數的期刊論文以外，他的專著有： 《中國的旅遊和現代性》(Tourism and Modernity in China 1998), 編著包括：《超地域中國》（Translocal China 2006), Travels in Paradox (2006), 《重塑屯堡：貴州的文化旅遊和社會變遷》,《文化地理學讀本》 （The Cultural Geography Reader 2008), 《被展覽的信仰》（Faiths on Display 2010), 《真實的旅遊》 （Real Tourism 2011), 以及最新的 《制造亞洲的文化城市》（Making Cultural Cities in Asia: Mobility, Assemblage, and the Politics of Aspirational Urbanism 2016).

講座介紹：What is the relationship between ethnic identity and urban space in China today?  How is urbanization in China impacting ethnic minority groups?  How is minority identity being re-shaped by cities?  Is there a place in China for ‘ethni-cities’?  This talk will explore these questions by pursuing two related avenues of inquiry.  First, I will present recent research on the ‘ethnicization’ of cities in Guizhou Province: the deliberate transformation of urban space into ethnically-themed space.  Second, I will discuss the urbanization of ethnic tourism in Guizhou: that is, the extension of an urban aesthetic to the practice and development of tourism in Guizhou’s ethnic countryside.  In both cases, questions are raised about the prospects for ethnic cultural development in the context of a rapidly urbanizing China.