Background
This
is the Second Meeting of the East Asian Regional Conference in
Alternative Geography. The First Meeting was successfully held in
Taegu, South Korea in January, 1999. It was decided at the end of
the 1st meeting that the second was going to take place in Hong Kong.
After almost three years of preparation, the Second Meeting was
successfully convened from 6th to 9th December 2001, at the Wing Lung
Bank Building, Hong Kong Baptist University.
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Themes
There
are close to 80 participants spanning many parts of the region,
including Hong Kong, the mainland China, Taiwan, Macao, Japan, Korea,
Singapore and Malaysia, and other parts of the world such as the USA,
the UK, Sweden, Finland and Bangladesh. There are over 50 papers
covering basically three broad themes: (i) theoretical discussion on
alternative geography; (ii/iii) gloablisation in Asia and China
respectively. The conference, therefore, organizes three parallel
sessions at any time slot to reflect these interests.
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Highlights
The plenary session consists of three keynote speeches, namely:
"Neoliberalism and the Geography of Hegemony", by Richard PEET,
Clark University, USA;
"Woman & Child Trafficking in Bangladesh: A Geographical
Analysis", by Mohammad Kamal HOSSAIN, University of Dhaka,
Bangladesh; and
"The New Global War in Afghanistan: 'Neo-liberalism' Vs
'Terrorism'? Who Pays its Cost?", by Fujio MIZUOKA, Hitotsubashi
University, Japan.
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Field Trips
The conference included two field trips as well to study the modern urban-industrial transformation in the Pearl River Delta, Guangdong Province, and the politics of urban landscape in Hong Kong, on 6th and 9th December respectively.
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For the presented papers' abstract, please visit our official website at www.hkbu.edu.hk/~earcag.
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Wing-Shing Tang
Local Organizer
Department of Geography
Hong Kong Baptist University
