Literacies Remaking Public Places: The Umbrella Movement of Hong Kong, 2014

Autor/inn/en	Gillen, Julia; Yu, Mandy Hoi Man; Fan, Gloria Ho Nga; Ho, Selena
Titel	Literacies Remaking Public Places: The Umbrella Movement of Hong Kong, 2014
Quelle	In: Literacy, 54 (2020) 2, S.40-48 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Gillen, Julia)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1741-4350
DOI	10.1111/lit.12212
Schlagwörter	Activism; Literacy; Urban Areas; Citizenship; Photography; Semiotics; Cooperation; Cultural Traits; Cultural Awareness; Critical Theory; Teaching Methods; Place Based Education; Political Attitudes; Political Power; Foreign Countries; Hong Kong + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Urban area; Stadtregion; Staatsbürgerschaft; Fotografie; Semiotik; Co-operation; Kooperation; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Kritische Theorie; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Politische Macht; Ausland; Hongkong
Abstract	We approach Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement, also known as Occupy Central, encountered in 2 days in November 2014 as an exemplar of literacy as placemaking. As a contemporary city-based resistance movement, the creation and subsequent resemiotisation of literacy artefacts were an important element of spatialised practice in asserting a new and dynamic sense of citizenship. In their collaborative design, shared commitment to certain values and expressions of political resistance, these occupation sites may be read as an instantiation of Goodsell's concept of public space. The initial research site of engagement gave rise to a dataset of photographs that the authors examined together as discourses in place, informed by cultural knowledge of Hong Kong. Selecting two photographs, we broaden out beyond the linguistic features of texts to consider processes of creative semiotic remediation. We suggest that in such placemaking activities, the Umbrella Movement activists embodied Giroux's concept of literacy as emancipatory practice. Finally, we make suggestions as to how this study might be connected to a critical pedagogy of place. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01