Daren Shi-Chi Leung
Biographic Data
| ID | 97189 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daren Shi-Chi Leung |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daren Shi-Chi |
| FAMILY NAME | Leung |
| SIGNATURE | LEUNG D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lingnan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5415-0691 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Food sovereignty, capitalism and migrant workers
Migrant workers have long played a central role in the global food system, yet they often remain marginal in food sovereignty discourse and practice. In this paper, we discuss why and how migrant labour is overlooked and explore ways to more effectively integrate migrant workers into food sovereignty frameworks, including debates, discourse, mobilisations, and practices. Increasing numbers of ‘working people’ migrate in search of livelihoods, whi…
Waste commons in motion
A care continuum
This article examines Hong Kong’s food waste management through the concept of a ‘care continuum’ that spans from technologically-driven governance to community-embedded practices. Drawing on participatory action research with community initiatives and policy analysis, I narrate how divergent approaches to waste care materialize in urban contexts. Technocratic ‘auditing care’ operates through governance that privileges infrastructure development,…
Wet dreams
Shit in Our Time
Human waste, often regarded as a source of disease, disgust and impurity, is being redefined as “humanure” by environmental activists, serving as a solution to land degradation in the midst of the anthropogenic crisis. Although a circular view that humans are not merely consumers of food but the producers for healthy soils has arisen, it can easily be overlooked. In China, the beneficial use of human waste, or “nightsoil,” for food production has…
Transforming critical agrarian studies
This paper examines the challenges and opportunities faced by critical agrarian scholars in and from the Global South. We argue that despite the historical and structural limitations, the critical juncture of convergence of crises and renewed interest in agrarian political economies offers an opportunity for fostering a diverse research agenda that opens space for critical perspectives about, from and by the Global South, which is mostly absent i…
The dilemma of mobility
In this essay, we ask whether there has been a revival of ‘youthful aspirations’ in the age of precarity, by examining youth groups’ transnational civic participation in the form of ‘volunteer tourism’ (hereafter, VT). Mobility is central to VT practice, yet is often tainted to various degrees by an associated complex of commercial, extractive, neoliberal, and even racialized interests. Understanding the ‘perils of mobility’, we argue, helps us c…
Transforming critical agrarian studies
This paper examines the challenges and opportunities faced by critical agrarian scholars in and from the Global South. We argue that despite the historical and structural limitations, the critical juncture of convergence of crises and renewed interest in agrarian political economies offers an opportunity for fostering a diverse research agenda that opens space for critical perspectives about, from and by the Global South, which is mostly absent i…
Wet dreams
The dilemma of mobility
In this essay, we ask whether there has been a revival of ‘youthful aspirations’ in the age of precarity, by examining youth groups’ transnational civic participation in the form of ‘volunteer tourism’ (hereafter, VT). Mobility is central to VT practice, yet is often tainted to various degrees by an associated complex of commercial, extractive, neoliberal, and even racialized interests. Understanding the ‘perils of mobility’, we argue, helps us c…
Transforming critical agrarian studies
This paper examines the challenges and opportunities faced by critical agrarian scholars in and from the Global South. We argue that despite the historical and structural limitations, the critical juncture of convergence of crises and renewed interest in agrarian political economies offers an opportunity for fostering a diverse research agenda that opens space for critical perspectives about, from and by the Global South, which is mostly absent i…
Shit in Our Time
Human waste, often regarded as a source of disease, disgust and impurity, is being redefined as “humanure” by environmental activists, serving as a solution to land degradation in the midst of the anthropogenic crisis. Although a circular view that humans are not merely consumers of food but the producers for healthy soils has arisen, it can easily be overlooked. In China, the beneficial use of human waste, or “nightsoil,” for food production has…
Waste commons in motion
A care continuum
This article examines Hong Kong’s food waste management through the concept of a ‘care continuum’ that spans from technologically-driven governance to community-embedded practices. Drawing on participatory action research with community initiatives and policy analysis, I narrate how divergent approaches to waste care materialize in urban contexts. Technocratic ‘auditing care’ operates through governance that privileges infrastructure development,…
Wet dreams
Food sovereignty, capitalism and migrant workers
Migrant workers have long played a central role in the global food system, yet they often remain marginal in food sovereignty discourse and practice. In this paper, we discuss why and how migrant labour is overlooked and explore ways to more effectively integrate migrant workers into food sovereignty frameworks, including debates, discourse, mobilisations, and practices. Increasing numbers of ‘working people’ migrate in search of livelihoods, whi…
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (3 works) · Agrarian society (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 works) · Law (2 works)