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This, along with the contrary visual and literal perspectives of Harper and Knowles made the back-stage presentation so illuminating.  <\/p>\n<p>The book also immediately put me in mind of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/City-Darkness-Life-Kowloon-Walled\/dp\/1873200137\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1215446954&amp;sr=8-1\"><em>City of Darkness &#8211; Life in Kowloon Walled City<\/em><\/a>, a book which uncovers Hong Kong interiors (now vanished).&nbsp; For <em>City of Darkness<\/em> authors Ian Girard and Greg Lambot spent four years exploring the notorious <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kowloon_Walled_City\">Walled City of<br \/>\nKowloon<\/a> (in Hong Kong). This city was a tiny Chinese enclave within British Hong Kong for decades before its clearance and demolition in 1992.&nbsp; With over 320<br \/>\nphotographs, 32 extended interviews, and essays on the City&#8217;s history and<br \/>\ncharacter, this book is not only an informative glimpse of a now vanished<br \/>\nlandmark but a sensitive and penetrating portrait of a unique community.&nbsp; Knowles and Harper have not had the same time for their collaboration, however, they identify an intersection of two distinct cultures and communities similarily located in a distinct time and place. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\r\n\t\t<!-- BEGIN ODIOGO LISTEN BUTTON v2.5.7 (WP) -->\r\n\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\">\r\n\t\t<!--\r\n\t\t\/\/ ODIOGO_START:do_NOT_remove_this_comment\r\n\t\tshowOdiogoReadNowButton (\"687068\", \"Live Sociology 2: Thinking Visually\", \"41\", 290, 55);\r\n\t\t\/\/ -->\r\n\t\t<\/script>\r\n\t\t<br\/>\r\n\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\">\r\n\t\t<!--\r\n\t\tshowInitialOdiogoReadNowFrame (\"687068\", \"41\", 290, 0);\r\n\t\t\/\/ ODIOGO_END:do_NOT_remove_this_comment\r\n\t\t\/\/ -->\r\n\t\t<\/script>\r\n\t\t<!-- END ODIOGO LISTEN BUTTON v2.5.7 (WP) -->\r\n\t\t\n<p>On Saturday I went to the second Live Sociology workshop &#8211; this time at the University of Manchester.&nbsp; In the afternoon session, Caroline Knowles (Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, London) and Douglas Harper (Professor of Sociology at Duquesne, University Pittsburgh) previewed their forthcoming book Hong Kong: Migrants Lives and Landscapes (Chicago University Press), a collection [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-visual-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}