Circularity in the environmental history of China : The Hong Kong mediasphere
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2013-08-20
Author(s)
Abstract
To private corporations, public agencies, government officials, and activists, digital technologies present exciting opportunities that let them engage broader audiences and key constituencies. A few environmental historians have sought to provide definitive answers to questions raised by the use of digital tools and social media:- How do they affect the production, diffusion, and reception of environmental discourse? - How do they create a new audience, shape public interest, rewrite public memory, and initiate (or delay) action on public policy about the environment?
This paper is a small contribution to a critique of the 'artifice of good policy' that has benefited the colonial and postcolonial administrations of Hong Kong (Ngo 1999). It will:
- Situate a media campaign within its larger historical and text-bound context.
- Examine the implications of that campaign on the writing of environmental history in official and popular cultures.
- Speculate briefly on the impact the new media may have on space, place, identity, the commodification of nature, alternative narratives, and finally on the traditional scholarly approach to environmental history and the environment.
This paper is a small contribution to a critique of the 'artifice of good policy' that has benefited the colonial and postcolonial administrations of Hong Kong (Ngo 1999). It will:
- Situate a media campaign within its larger historical and text-bound context.
- Examine the implications of that campaign on the writing of environmental history in official and popular cultures.
- Speculate briefly on the impact the new media may have on space, place, identity, the commodification of nature, alternative narratives, and finally on the traditional scholarly approach to environmental history and the environment.
Language
English
Keywords
Environmental history
environmental policy
environmental humanities
Hong Kong studies
Chinese studies
cultural geography
new social media
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
SHSS - Kulturen, Institutionen, Maerkte (KIM)
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
ESEH
Volume
111
Start page
111
Event Title
ESEH 2013
Event Location
Munich
Event Date
20.-24.08.2013
Subject(s)
Eprints ID
225346