New Social Justice Studies
Research Statement
Questions of justice in contemporary Asia increasingly exceed the traditional frames of rights and redistribution. Migration and displacement, the everyday lives of ethnic minority communities, cultures of care and caregiving, digital citizenship, and the politics of belonging all demand new conceptual vocabularies and new methods. The New Social Justice Studies cluster develops these, extending the Centre's founding research tracks in Critical Migration Studies and Comparative Cultures of Care into a broader programme on justice, culture, and community.
Hong Kong is our primary site and our sharpest lens: a city of migrants, minorities, and layered histories of arrival, where questions of who belongs and who cares for whom are lived daily. Cluster research is strongly community-engaged, working with minority families, community organisations, and cultural mediators, and it holds itself to careful ethical standards in doing so. We are equally committed to comparative work, connecting Hong Kong to the Greater Bay Area, Southeast Asia, and global debates on migration and justice.
Eating with Ethnic Minority Families in Hong Kong
A collaborative foodways project exploring cultural exchange and belonging through shared meals with ethnic minority families in Hong Kong, conducted with Dr Daren Shi-Chi Leung, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University.
Comparative Cultures of Care
Research Statement: With intellectual roots in Medical Humanities, Sustainability Studies, Gender Studies, Migration Studies and Cultural Studies, Comparative Cultures of Care draws on interdisciplinary resources in its approach to social wellbeing and environmental and scientific sustainability. It brings together the two domains of Care Humanities and Care Science/Care Tech. Research areas include philosophy of care; theories of social care; studies of care in post-pandemic times; studies in biopolitics and health; gender inequalities in the care industries; museum and heritage studies; linguistic creativity, arts, and wellbeing; images and narratives of care in popular culture, etc.
Partners: Partners: Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University; Department of Humanities & Creative Writing, Hong Kong Baptist University; School of Film, Media and Journalism, University of Lincoln, UK; Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Manitoba, Canada; Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University; VolTra Limited (NGO); Breadline (NGO); FOOTPRINT (NGO)