K Lam
Biographic Data
| ID | 7023 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Lam |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Lam |
| SIGNATURE | LAM K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Macau |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9050-0804 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Creole Oral Aesthetics
Portuguese explorers first reached the Cape Verde islands in the Atlantic Ocean off West Africa in the 15th century. The expedition officially marked the beginning of the archipelago’s history. Cape Verde nurtured one of the modern world’s first creole communities and an early African diaspora. As a nation, Cape Verde has grown from within, shaping a political and cultural identity distinctly its own. Inspired by the global environmental politics…
Macao and Hengqin on China’s southern coast
Photo-Essay of the Migrant Home
Presented in a photo-essay format, this article highlights the immediacy, simultaneity, and possibility of home and transnational relations. Visualizing European urban spaces as constituted by mundane migratory processes, the photo-essay recognizes the everyday struggles of people who are staying rather than moving. Attention is directed towards the discursive, affective, and material labor of grounding a migrant home. The methodological original…
Interpreting Europe
Urban Feng-Shui and its Impact on the Spatial Structures of Places and Psychological Well-being of People
Since ancient times, sacred power beliefs have been an element of human culture.The beliefs in prayers and vows stem from the people's desire for stability and spiritual dependency, as well as from those passed down from generation to generation.These are frequently based on numerous legends relating to the locations.This article examines the belief in making a pledge to Ai Khai of Wat Chedi in Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, Thailand, with a stucc…
Stomach-Thought
This study is inspired by an ongoing associational project to discuss issues of intercultural communication and to raise our awareness of existing cultural representations and possible discriminatory practices in Portuguese society. It focuses on representations in popular Portuguese imageries of ethnic food, i.e., "African" food versus "Asian" food. The Asian comparison is mainly used to illustrate, highlight, and make sense of the African case.…
In poverty we will always stay”
Geographically part of West Africa, Cape Verde is a Creole and diasporic nation. This article begins by characterizing contemporary Cape Verde and the connections to the past, integrating history, memory and cultural manifestations. It then probes how Cape Verde developed politically and socioeconomically, paying special attention to urban-rural links and island city dynamics. It studies the situation of Cape Verde as a whole and of people indivi…
I Eat to Kill Hunger
Cape Verde is a former Portuguese colony that experienced devastating droughts and famines with dire demographic and social consequences up to the last century. As the popular saying goes, “Cabo Verde não é verde” : ie Cape Verde (meaning ‘Green Cape’) is the opposite of what its name suggests. The islanders treasure food because they know how their ancestors and older family members suffered, maintaining to this day a close and grateful relation…
Island-raised but foreign-made
Cape Verdeans have migrated to many parts of the world. In Portugal, they are prominent demographically and socially. The archipelago of Cape Verde presents a unique combination of colonial past, immigration history and geographical features that complexifies a study of interpersonal and spatial relationships. The present study has two aims. It seeks to illustrate how Cape Verdean migrant women in Greater Lisbon live, define and negotiate their r…
A Stochastic Volatility Model With Markov Switching
This article presents a new way of modeling time-varying volatility. We generalize the usual stochastic volatility models to encompass regime-switching properties. The unobserved state variables are governed by a first-order Markov process. Bayesian estimators are constructed by Gibbs sampling. High-, medium- and low-volatility states are identified for the Standard and Poor’s 500 weekly return data. Persistence in volatility is explained by the …
Interpreting Europe
Island-raised but foreign-made
Cape Verdeans have migrated to many parts of the world. In Portugal, they are prominent demographically and socially. The archipelago of Cape Verde presents a unique combination of colonial past, immigration history and geographical features that complexifies a study of interpersonal and spatial relationships. The present study has two aims. It seeks to illustrate how Cape Verdean migrant women in Greater Lisbon live, define and negotiate their r…
In poverty we will always stay”
Geographically part of West Africa, Cape Verde is a Creole and diasporic nation. This article begins by characterizing contemporary Cape Verde and the connections to the past, integrating history, memory and cultural manifestations. It then probes how Cape Verde developed politically and socioeconomically, paying special attention to urban-rural links and island city dynamics. It studies the situation of Cape Verde as a whole and of people indivi…
I Eat to Kill Hunger
Cape Verde is a former Portuguese colony that experienced devastating droughts and famines with dire demographic and social consequences up to the last century. As the popular saying goes, “Cabo Verde não é verde” : ie Cape Verde (meaning ‘Green Cape’) is the opposite of what its name suggests. The islanders treasure food because they know how their ancestors and older family members suffered, maintaining to this day a close and grateful relation…
A Stochastic Volatility Model With Markov Switching
This article presents a new way of modeling time-varying volatility. We generalize the usual stochastic volatility models to encompass regime-switching properties. The unobserved state variables are governed by a first-order Markov process. Bayesian estimators are constructed by Gibbs sampling. High-, medium- and low-volatility states are identified for the Standard and Poor’s 500 weekly return data. Persistence in volatility is explained by the …
Island-raised but foreign-made
Cape Verdeans have migrated to many parts of the world. In Portugal, they are prominent demographically and socially. The archipelago of Cape Verde presents a unique combination of colonial past, immigration history and geographical features that complexifies a study of interpersonal and spatial relationships. The present study has two aims. It seeks to illustrate how Cape Verdean migrant women in Greater Lisbon live, define and negotiate their r…
I Eat to Kill Hunger
Cape Verde is a former Portuguese colony that experienced devastating droughts and famines with dire demographic and social consequences up to the last century. As the popular saying goes, “Cabo Verde não é verde” : ie Cape Verde (meaning ‘Green Cape’) is the opposite of what its name suggests. The islanders treasure food because they know how their ancestors and older family members suffered, maintaining to this day a close and grateful relation…
In poverty we will always stay”
Geographically part of West Africa, Cape Verde is a Creole and diasporic nation. This article begins by characterizing contemporary Cape Verde and the connections to the past, integrating history, memory and cultural manifestations. It then probes how Cape Verde developed politically and socioeconomically, paying special attention to urban-rural links and island city dynamics. It studies the situation of Cape Verde as a whole and of people indivi…
Stomach-Thought
This study is inspired by an ongoing associational project to discuss issues of intercultural communication and to raise our awareness of existing cultural representations and possible discriminatory practices in Portuguese society. It focuses on representations in popular Portuguese imageries of ethnic food, i.e., "African" food versus "Asian" food. The Asian comparison is mainly used to illustrate, highlight, and make sense of the African case.…
Urban Feng-Shui and its Impact on the Spatial Structures of Places and Psychological Well-being of People
Since ancient times, sacred power beliefs have been an element of human culture.The beliefs in prayers and vows stem from the people's desire for stability and spiritual dependency, as well as from those passed down from generation to generation.These are frequently based on numerous legends relating to the locations.This article examines the belief in making a pledge to Ai Khai of Wat Chedi in Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, Thailand, with a stucc…
Interpreting Europe
Photo-Essay of the Migrant Home
Presented in a photo-essay format, this article highlights the immediacy, simultaneity, and possibility of home and transnational relations. Visualizing European urban spaces as constituted by mundane migratory processes, the photo-essay recognizes the everyday struggles of people who are staying rather than moving. Attention is directed towards the discursive, affective, and material labor of grounding a migrant home. The methodological original…
Creole Oral Aesthetics
Portuguese explorers first reached the Cape Verde islands in the Atlantic Ocean off West Africa in the 15th century. The expedition officially marked the beginning of the archipelago’s history. Cape Verde nurtured one of the modern world’s first creole communities and an early African diaspora. As a nation, Cape Verde has grown from within, shaping a political and cultural identity distinctly its own. Inspired by the global environmental politics…
Macao and Hengqin on China’s southern coast
Geography (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Cape (4 works) · Cape verde (4 works) · Ethnology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (3 works)