日期 : 2018-09-12

时间 : 12:00pm-2:00pm

地点 : Room 109, Chen Kou Bun Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Speakers:

Prof. Jesook Song (Department of Anthropology, The University of Toronto)

Prof. Raees Baig (Department of Social Work, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Moderator:

Prof. Sealing Cheng (Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Introduction:

This event would invite reflexive discussions of the ways in which “MeToo” movements evolved in Hong Kong and South Korea. In other words, how globally circulating discourse is mobilized and spins off in local contexts would produce particular dynamics in each society and history, brining potentially divergent implications in local feminist and queer activisms.

At the same time, however, considering its different evolvement and impacts in local contexts, it would be important, politically, historically and theoretically, to think of interconnected aspects of the “MeToo” movements in South Korea and Hong Kong. This kind of efforts to understand local context in depth while staying with the inter-connected geopolitics is built on a critical feminist thinking, which includes a relational approach carved by Gillian Hart, a feminist geographer, which is distinct from comparative approach and transnational feminism such as scholarly works by Lisa Yoneyama and Eunjung Kim.

The dialogue between Jesook Song and Raees Baig will invite us to make sense of the diverging and converging currents in the ‘MeToo’ movements in South Korea and Hong Kong.

Jesook Song is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Her books include South Koreans in the Debt Crisis: The Creation of a Neoliberal Welfare Society (Duke University Press, 2009), New Millennium South Korea: Neoliberal Capitalism and Transnational Movements (edited volume, Routledge, 2010), Living on Your Own: Single Women, Rental Housing, and Post-Revolutionary Affect in Contemporary South Korea (SUNY Press, 2014). She also co-edited Korea through Ethnography, a special issue of the Journal of Korean Studies (November 2012), and published articles in journals such as Anthropological Quarterly, Critique of Anthropology, Feminist Review, Gender, Place, and Culture, Journal of Youth Studies, positions, and Urban Geography.

Raees Baig is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Social Work, CUHK, and the Co-director of the Gender Research Centre, CUHK. Her research areas include gender, minority rights and migration; with a specific focus on women’s rights under transnational migration. Prior to her engagement in the academia, she worked in local human rights group focusing on minority rights and joined the UN Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights as a Senior Minority Fellow. She is currently serving in the board of various international human rights organization and local women’s rights group and has conducted gender mainstreaming trainings for the social workers and NGOs for the Hong Kong SAR Government.

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