Desmond Hok-Man Sham- PhD
- Assistant Professor at University of Nottingham
Desmond Hok-Man Sham
- PhD
- Assistant Professor at University of Nottingham
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Introduction
Dr. Desmond Sham is an Assistant Professor in Cultural and Creative Industries at the Department of Cultural, Media and Visual Studies at the University of Nottingham. He is a cultural studies and urban studies scholar specialising in postcolonial/decolonial studies, cultural heritage and memory, cultural economy, cultural identity, and urban culture, with expertise in East & Southeast Asia and the Sinophone world.
He is an HEA Fellow.
Current institution
Additional affiliations
August 2020 - January 2022
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Position
- Assistant Professor
August 2018 - July 2020
June 2016 - August 2018
Education
September 2010 - June 2015
September 2006 - July 2009
September 2003 - August 2006
Publications
Publications (10)
This chapter articulates Hong Kong's experience as a (colonial) port city, re-positions Hong Kong into the maritime network, and argues for the significance of “port city” as an inter-referencing framework. Through the example of Happy Valley cemetery cluster, this chapter illustrates how the histories of Hong Kong as a port city, including its mul...
In Chapter 5 Desmond Hok-Man Sham discusses the neglected site of the St John’s Island quarantine station in Singapore. Sham revisits and contests the history and memory of the island, in relation to the legacy of colonialism, analyzing how and why the ‘darker’ aspects of its past have been commemorated or obscured. In narrating the history of the...
This article endeavours to advance scholarship on the relationship among festivals, cultural heritage, sustainable development, and the connection between cultural heritage and creativity. The article positions festivals as sites to negotiate creativity and traditions and recognises that festivals are constantly evolving and transforming. Through s...
In East and Southeast Asia, culture-led urban regeneration has been criticized for bringing in cultural economy activities that have few connections, if at all, with the local contexts, and leading to gentrification of the historic districts and eviction of traditional businesses. By positioning the transformation of Twatutia (Dadaocheng ) in Taipe...
Frontiers of Memory in the Asia-Pacific explores the making and consumption of conflict-related heritage throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Contributing to a growing literature on ‘difficult heritage’, this collection advances our understanding of how places of pain, shame, oppression, and trauma have been appropriated and refashioned as ‘heritage...
本文借用台灣鄉土文學理論，結合其他城市書寫理論，討論2000年代香港華語語系詩和土地相關的公共實踐。城市並非沒有「土地」的概念，只是其表現方式和鄉郊地區不一樣。本文歸納，在2000年代香港華語語系詩的實踐中，書寫與回應城市的土地的作品，美學與表現方式多元，就內容而言，則以兩種形態出現：其一是在和土地相關的大事件（如保育天星碼頭和皇后碼頭運動）時的回應；其二是深耕於城市土地，書寫街道和社區，以及其中的人與事的作品，但當「大事件」發生時，它們可以為之提供養份。透過分析2000年代香港華語語系詩的實踐，本文說明文學在新自由主義當下介入公共的可能，如何有助反思自身和城市土地的關係，豐富文學也豐富運動，以及其對反思與深化「本土」的意義。
By adopting theories of xiangtu...
