Lachlan B. Barber's research while affiliated with Hong Kong Baptist University and other places
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Publications (15)
Hong Kong is known for its dense, rapidly transforming high-rise landscape, the result of colonial-era land policy that derives a substantial portion of government revenue from land sales and redevelopment. Few historic buildings remain in the old urban districts of Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, while a greater number dot the New Territories and is...
This article considers experiences of rhythmic change related to employment-related geographical mobilities in parts of the Canadian construction industry. Drawing on Lefebvrian rhythmanalysis and aspects of time-geography, we consider how workers and their loved ones negotiate changes in space-time patterns across careers in industrial constructio...
This introduction serves several purposes. First, it provides some context around the phenomenon of Employment-Related Geographical Mobility. Second, it introduces the papers included in this Special Issue.
This article considers how construction workers based in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) negotiate the need to be mobile for work at different scales and with what effects. It tackles the seldom considered question of how travel becomes normalized as a facet of work in construction, an employ-ment sector characterized by vol...
Energy poverty and other social aspects of energy are an important but under-researched area in the sustainability literature. This article challenges the effectiveness of the traditional expenditure-based 10%-income indicator in reflecting the nature and complexity of energy poverty, with particular reference to a case study in Hong Kong. To advan...
Hong Kong citizens’ fierce and evolving struggles, developing from the summer of 2019 onwards, have spawned countless stories, protest tactics, sacrifices, and debates in Hong Kong society and beyond. In this article, we probe Hong Kong’s condition, asking: what is the psyche of the city for which protesters are willing to risk their futures? What...
Automobiles are ubiquitous objects of private consumption and their meaning and use are shaped by different aspects of identity, including gender. The gender dimensions of automobility associated with particular types of vehicles have not been extensively researched. This article studies pickup trucks and masculinities in relation to home and work...
Studies of energy poverty have proliferated around the world. While the existing literature provides significant insights into the drivers and dynamics of energy poverty in some parts of the world, there remains little evidence from Asia – a region that combines rapidly changing developed urban conurbations alongside widespread rural poverty. This...
Household, journey-to-work, and workplace dynamics intersect and are diverse and changing. These intersections contribute to gendered, classed, and racialized divisions of labour at home, at work, and on the road. Research on journeys-to-work has generally focused on journeys that happen daily, follow similar routes, at similar times, and involve t...
The adaptive reuse of publicly owned historic buildings as heritage projects presents opportunities to create spaces with multiple uses for diverse publics. Such projects are shaped by a mixture of economic considerations, policy objectives, and public concerns. In recent years the creative industries have emerged as a favoured format in East Asian...
Hong Kong's retrocession to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 initiated intense interest in cultural heritage on the part of divergently positioned actors, including activists, the state, and entrepreneurs. Heritage walking tours have proliferated, providing a wide range of examples suitable for comparison. This article develops a typology of heritage tr...
Construction activity is intrinsic to the development of extractive industries infrastructure, requiring significant capital investment and large and varied workforces. The transience and temporary nature of this work, and the fact that local labour supplies do not meet demands in many resource-rich regions, have necessitated the development of a r...
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... Touring musicians' bodies are "entrained" to ensure non-standard work rhythms; Lefebvre's concept of "dressage" is suggestive of this process, as musicians adapt to and become inured to the discomforts of life on the road. Drawing on Marcu's (2017) work on rhythmic change, Barber and Neis' (2021) article reveals shifts in the expectations and lived realities of construction workers traveling long distances for work. Within a larger framework of changes in scheduling and human resources management in the industry, they negotiate challenging changes in the tempos of work and time off with implications for their partners and families. ...
... There is good reason for youth to be skeptical, as reports have emerged about the difficulty skilled trades apprentices in Newfoundland and Labrador have experienced in finding work (Power, 2017). The volatility of employment associated with resource extraction (see Barber & Breslin, 2020) means that investing in skilled trades credentials is risky, though the chance of making "lots of money" may make it worthwhile. The risk is not limited to training and jobs for the extractive industries, as Jacky explained: ...
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... Energy poverty, or better said energy precarity [63] relate directly to what inhabitants of this conflict regions prioritize. This prioritization has been recently observed and studied in low-income households in Belgium [64], Central Europe [65] and Hong Kong [66] and has been called hidden energy poverty. Meyer [64] states that "hidden energy poverty underlines the existence of self-rationing practices", practices that are survival mechanisms adopted by families in vulnerable households [66]. ...
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... In this article, we characterize and address the above challenges by revisiting the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti-ELAB hereafter) movement, an impactful socio-political movement in Hong Kong, from the transportation resilience angle. There have been quite a few articles on the Anti-ELAB movement in realms such as political science, sociology, and arts (9)(10)(11)(12). We hope to advance related scholarship and practice concerning transportation resilience, which is defined as a system's capability to return to an equilibrium between the demand and supply after a disturbance. ...
... Pedestrian facilities, as well as safe and pleasing environments, have long been identified as key factors to encourage walking (Cerin et al., 2014;Mateo-Babiano, 2016;Zegeer, 2002); nevertheless, such environment that facilitates circulation around transit stations are unevenly distributed (Barber, 2020). The same logic of efficiency and circulation guide planning and design in different kinds of urban spaces and cities continue to be built in transit-oriented cities like Hong Kong, particularly to integrate metro stations with other transportation modes and surrounding land uses. ...
... week. Owning an expensive truck is increasingly leveraged as a form of hegemonic masculinity and identity symbology for those in working-class backgrounds (Barber, 2019;Hirschman, 2016), ...
... While there has been a divide in the scholarly exploration of energy poverty and housing studies along the economic boundaries of the Global North and the Global South, more recent studies have drawn comparisons between more developed cities in the economically varied geographic region of the Asia Pacific. Study of energy poverty in Asia in the context of cities with more developed economic profiles has been limited, but is increasingly examined (Okushima, 2017, Robinson et al., 2018, Bonatz et al., 2019, Fuller et al., 2019, Tabata and Tsai, 2020, Yip et al., 2020. ...
... Travel to and from work, travel as part of work, travel in search of work and livelihoods, and travel within the fabric of social, community, and family lives -are fragile, complex and challenging (Neis et al. 2018). The notion that how and where we work aligns with how and where we live remains taken for granted by urban and social researchers. ...
... New uses seeking community benefits are associated with local populations and district history, identity, and quality of life, and thereafter address the broader concept of sustainable development that includes equity and well-being [148,149]. In the context of urban development and regeneration, the well-known controversial topic of gentrification arises [150,151]. A sharp improvement of all aspects of neighborhood quality could potentially lead to a widespread alteration of the racial/ethnic composition due to lower-income residents' forced displacement [152]. ...
... Many public bodies and private companies in the tourism sector across the world have seen heritage as a tool for promoting and developing their own tourism market (Little et al., 2020). Countries with heritage-focused tourist programs include India, with dark tourism (Sharma & Nayak, 2020); Japan, with the promotion of the feudal city of shukuba machi (Murti, 2020); Saudi Arabia, with the spaces declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO (Al-Tokhais & Thapa, 2020); USA, with the eco-people of Arcosanti (Doğan, 2019); Hong Kong, with a proposal for urban hiking (Barber, 2019); Indonesia, by enhancing the Palace of the Sultan of Yogyakarta (Wijayanti & Damanik, 2019); Malaysia, by enhancing the intangible heritage of George Town (Foo & Krishnapillai, 2019); Turkey, with the Museum of Innocence in Istanbul (Hannam & Ryan, 2019); South Korea, with intangible cultural heritage (Kim et al., 2019); Tanzania, by promoting the elements of cultural heritage in Dar es Salaam (Kisusi & Masele, 2019); France, with the proposal for heritage reconstruction through technology in the Abbey of Cluny (Rueda-Esteban, 2019); and Spain, with the proposal for the enhancement of ancestral pilgrimages in the province of Castellón (Vidal-González & Sánchez, 2019). All of these countries have created tourism products and services linked to the different forms of heritage that exist in their geographical areas. ...
