I’ve posted about the wet markets in Hong Kong before. These urban spaces can be colourful and lively, such as the market in Shatin pictured above, or they can be dead spaces lacking colour. Certainly from the outside, the facades that house the FEHD and ex-FEHD markets do not reveal the potential for the liveliness contained within. Continue reading
Category Archives: Geographies
Finding location: Central Station, Exit C of the Hong Kong MTR
I always feel a bit dislocated when first exiting an underground public transport station, whatever city I am in. It always takes a minute or more to adjust and locate. There is the moment that occurs where you realise you can orient yourself and you know where you are going. Continue reading
A matter of rice
I am currently reading a book by Nir Avieli, who is an academic at Ben Gurion University in Israel. The book is called Rice Talks (2012, Indiana University Press) and is about eating culture, and particularly rice as part of that culture, in Vietnam. It is an interesting book from the perspective of learning about how people in a particular place eat, though there are some generalisations about Chinese foodways, used within the book to provide context, that just don’t resonate. Continue reading
Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense
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Not Really Still Life: In anticipation of a healthy diet?
This post is in response to a WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge where the aim is to express the future tense. The photograph links back to a paper that I once wrote concerning the ways that food moulds (molds) or decays and at the same time shapes our daily life experiences. The fruit bowl representes a particular class consciousness that incorporates display of class ability and the inherent content of the still life, which is rooted in notions of controlling/disciplining/civilising nature. Continue reading
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