Vivian Kong
Biographic Data
| ID | 3479188 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vivian Kong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vivian |
| FAMILY NAME | Kong |
| SIGNATURE | KONG V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6072-5431 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Walking (with) the platform: Bikesharing and the aesthetics of gentrification in Vancouver
This paper engages the increasing significance of urban platforms through the lens of the aesthetics of gentrification. We report on “walks-with” platformized bikesharing infrastructure across three neighbourhoods in Vancouver, Canada: gentrified Mount Pleasant/South Main, gentrifying Strathcona/Chinatown, and the gentrifiable East Village. Drawing on photographs, reflections, and observations of the visualities of select bikeshare stations’ micr…
Gentrification and the an/aesthetics of digital spatial capital in Canadian “platform cities”
This paper reports on the findings of an empirical study of the street‐level visual spatialities of urban platforms in three Canadian cities: Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal. Enumerating, typologizing, and spatially analyzing incidences of platforms in these three cities, we find platforms to be concentrated in neighbourhoods classified as “gentrified,” “gentrifying,” and “gentrifiable,” while being largely absent from established affluent encla…
Exclusivity and Cosmopolitanism: Multi-Ethnic Civil Society in Interwar Hong Kong
While recent work has shown that interwar Asian civic associational culture was becoming more plural than previously understood, scholars focus mostly on transnational networks and neglect local associations co-existing in the colonial urban space. We also know little about how internationalist and liberal ideals interacted with notions of racial and national exclusion prevalent in the wider society. To overcome this, this article examines local …
"Whiteness, Imperial Anxiety, and the "Global 1930s: The White British League Debate in Hong Kong
What is a British colony for, and who is it for? These were the questions at the crux of a public debate in 1933 in Hong Kong sparked by a British resident claiming to have formed an organization for the "protection and advancement" of the "British white race." This article explores how anxieties about fascism, white privilege, and "others" in the empire allowed the very idea of such a political movement to be elevated to the subject of heated de…
Hong Kong is my Home’: The 1940 Evacuation and Hong Kong-Britons
Who were the Hong Kong British, and where did they live? This question sat at the heart of anguished and angry debates prompted by the colonial government’s edict in June 1940 ordering the evacuation to Australia of all women and children of ‘pure European descent’. In this article, I focus on thematic strands in the debate on Hong Kong British identity, such as race, class, legal domicile, reputation and migration, to explore the complex charact…
Gentrification and the an/aesthetics of digital spatial capital in Canadian “platform cities”
This paper reports on the findings of an empirical study of the street‐level visual spatialities of urban platforms in three Canadian cities: Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal. Enumerating, typologizing, and spatially analyzing incidences of platforms in these three cities, we find platforms to be concentrated in neighbourhoods classified as “gentrified,” “gentrifying,” and “gentrifiable,” while being largely absent from established affluent encla…
Walking (with) the platform: Bikesharing and the aesthetics of gentrification in Vancouver
This paper engages the increasing significance of urban platforms through the lens of the aesthetics of gentrification. We report on “walks-with” platformized bikesharing infrastructure across three neighbourhoods in Vancouver, Canada: gentrified Mount Pleasant/South Main, gentrifying Strathcona/Chinatown, and the gentrifiable East Village. Drawing on photographs, reflections, and observations of the visualities of select bikeshare stations’ micr…
"Whiteness, Imperial Anxiety, and the "Global 1930s: The White British League Debate in Hong Kong
What is a British colony for, and who is it for? These were the questions at the crux of a public debate in 1933 in Hong Kong sparked by a British resident claiming to have formed an organization for the "protection and advancement" of the "British white race." This article explores how anxieties about fascism, white privilege, and "others" in the empire allowed the very idea of such a political movement to be elevated to the subject of heated de…
Exclusivity and Cosmopolitanism: Multi-Ethnic Civil Society in Interwar Hong Kong
While recent work has shown that interwar Asian civic associational culture was becoming more plural than previously understood, scholars focus mostly on transnational networks and neglect local associations co-existing in the colonial urban space. We also know little about how internationalist and liberal ideals interacted with notions of racial and national exclusion prevalent in the wider society. To overcome this, this article examines local …
Hong Kong is my Home’: The 1940 Evacuation and Hong Kong-Britons
Who were the Hong Kong British, and where did they live? This question sat at the heart of anguished and angry debates prompted by the colonial government’s edict in June 1940 ordering the evacuation to Australia of all women and children of ‘pure European descent’. In this article, I focus on thematic strands in the debate on Hong Kong British identity, such as race, class, legal domicile, reputation and migration, to explore the complex charact…
Exclusivity and Cosmopolitanism: Multi-Ethnic Civil Society in Interwar Hong Kong
While recent work has shown that interwar Asian civic associational culture was becoming more plural than previously understood, scholars focus mostly on transnational networks and neglect local associations co-existing in the colonial urban space. We also know little about how internationalist and liberal ideals interacted with notions of racial and national exclusion prevalent in the wider society. To overcome this, this article examines local …
"Whiteness, Imperial Anxiety, and the "Global 1930s: The White British League Debate in Hong Kong
What is a British colony for, and who is it for? These were the questions at the crux of a public debate in 1933 in Hong Kong sparked by a British resident claiming to have formed an organization for the "protection and advancement" of the "British white race." This article explores how anxieties about fascism, white privilege, and "others" in the empire allowed the very idea of such a political movement to be elevated to the subject of heated de…
Walking (with) the platform: Bikesharing and the aesthetics of gentrification in Vancouver
This paper engages the increasing significance of urban platforms through the lens of the aesthetics of gentrification. We report on “walks-with” platformized bikesharing infrastructure across three neighbourhoods in Vancouver, Canada: gentrified Mount Pleasant/South Main, gentrifying Strathcona/Chinatown, and the gentrifiable East Village. Drawing on photographs, reflections, and observations of the visualities of select bikeshare stations’ micr…
Gentrification and the an/aesthetics of digital spatial capital in Canadian “platform cities”
This paper reports on the findings of an empirical study of the street‐level visual spatialities of urban platforms in three Canadian cities: Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal. Enumerating, typologizing, and spatially analyzing incidences of platforms in these three cities, we find platforms to be concentrated in neighbourhoods classified as “gentrified,” “gentrifying,” and “gentrifiable,” while being largely absent from established affluent encla…
Art (3 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · British Empire (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Economic geography (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gentrification (2 works)