Cultural Production, Historiography, and Multi-scalar Politics

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Cultural Production, Historiography, and Multi-scalar Politics: Transformations of Place-making Practices in East Asia

Three paper sessions organized for AAG 2024:

In contemporary place-making practices across East Asia, discussions about cultures and cultural
production are increasingly moving beyond the globalist rhetoric of local competitiveness and global-local dualism onto calls for social inclusion, diversity, collaboration, and place-based identities. The trend has prompted policy-makers, communities, social organizations, businesses, cultural preservationists, and professional planners and designers to engage in new debates around cross- and inter-boundary collective memories, historiography, and multi-scalar understanding of a place. Meanwhile, new forms of place-making practices that prioritize temporality over spatiality-such as festivals, guided tours, exhibitions, pop-up/tactical urbanism-are flourishing, leading to the creation of unconventional cultural milieus in both urban and rural areas. This paper session aims to draw in ongoing research that looks at new developments taking place at the intersection between culture production and place-making in the East Asia region. Thematically, we welcome contributions which consider the following issues:

• The evolving relationship between culture production and place-making under the
transforming world economy and geo-political dynamics;
• New cultural discursive strategies and tools for place-making;
• New forms of place-making and representations of local culture;
• Changing relationship between the culture economy and practices of place-making;
• New developments and debates in literature about culture production and place-making.

SESSION 1 (7:20 AM - 8:40 AM)
Chair: Ying-fen Chen, National Taipei University of Technology (yingfenchen@mail.ntut.edu.tw)
• In Search of Heritage Subjectivity: Multi-scalar cultural politics in the heritagization of the
Chia-nan Irrigation System, Taiwan (Shu-Wei Tsai, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan);
in-person.
• Regenerative Place Making in Historical Towns: The case of rural revitalization initiatives in
water towns in Suzhou, China (Xuefeng Wang, Xi'an Jiaotong - Liverpool University); inperson.
• Ruralising Culture-led Rural Regeneration in China (Xiaotong Guo, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool
University; Shih-yang Kao, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University); in-person.
• Unpacking the multifaceted rurality of Hong Kong’s countryside: A social representation
approach (Shenjing He, The University of Hong Kong; Weihang Gong, The University of Hong
Kong; Junxi Qian, The University of Hong Kong); in-person.

SESSION 2 (9:00 AM - 10:20 AM)
Chair: Shu-wei Tsai, National Sun Yat-Sen University (swtsai@mail.nsysu.edu.tw)
• Chinese Film Industry and Urban Development in China’s Small Cities: Insights from the
Leadership Dispute at Pingyao International Film Festival (Hui Wang, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool
University); virtual.
• Unfolding the Formation of Dadaocheng’s Imaginary through Visualizing the Placemaking
Dynamics on Maps (YING-FEN CHEN, National Taipei University of Technology); in-person.
• Appreciating the Purposes and Functions of Street Murals: The New ‘Art Lane’ in in Hong
Kong’s Sai Ying Pun (Ben Gerlofs, The University of Hong Kong; Xiaochang Liao, The University
of Hong Kong); in-person
• Place-Making in Rural Sustainable Development: A Scoping Review Across Disciplines (Liyang
Chen, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University; Lin Lin, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University); virtual.

SESSION 3 (10:40 AM - 12:00 AM)
Chair: Xufeng Wang, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (xuefeng.wang@xjtlu.edu.cn)
• Beyond Dichotomy: Exploring the Nuanced Dynamics Between Authorized Heritage Discourse
and Local Communities (Xian ZHI, The Chinese University of Hong Kong); in-person.
• Reinterpreting culture-led urban redevelopment in China amidst profound regime changes
(Ronghao Jiang, The University of Hong Kong); in-person.
• Musicking and Place-Making in Post-War Taiwan: A Case Study of Rong-Shing Children’s
Chorus Group (YU-JIE HO); in-person.
• The Regeneration of Insta-famous Spaces and Amplified Commercial Gentrification Driven by
Geomedia: The Case of Shanghai (Yuanyi Xie, Tongji University; Chen Chen, Tongji University);
in-person.

Period	17 Apr 2024
Event type	Conference
Location	Honolulu, United States, HawaiiShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International