Papers by Caroline Knowles
Identities-global Studies in Culture and Power, Jul 1, 2012
In 1997 the United Kingdom returned control of Hong Kong to China, ending the city’s status as on... more In 1997 the United Kingdom returned control of Hong Kong to China, ending the city’s status as one of the last remnants of the British Empire and initiating a new phase for it as both a modern city and a hub for global migrations. Hong Kong is a tour of the city’s postcolonial urban landscape, innovatively told through fieldwork and photography. Caroline Knowles and Douglas Harper’s point of entry into Hong Kong is the unusual position of the British expatriates who chose to remain in the city after the transition. Now a relatively insignificant presence, British migrants in Hong Kong have become intimately connected with another small minority group there: immigrants from Southeast Asia. The lives, journeys, and stories of these two groups bring to life a place where the past continues to resonate for all its residents, even as the city hurtles forward into a future marked by transience and transition. By skillfully blending ethnographic and visual approaches, Hong Kong offers a fascinating guide to a city that is at once unique in its recent history and exemplary of our globalized present.
European Journal of Women's Studies, Aug 1, 2000
This article conceptualizes the British Empire as a spatial arrangement created and sustained in ... more This article conceptualizes the British Empire as a spatial arrangement created and sustained in the everyday activities of women. Focusing on the work of Jane Waterston – a missionary and doctor working in South Africa – and Mary Kingsley – a traveller and political lobbyist – it argues that women played an important part in fabricating the social relationships and practical activities of empire in their daily lives. Women also contributed to the spatial configuration of empire in their journeys back and forth between Britain and various parts of the empire. It argues that women's routes and journeys connected parts of the empire with each other and with Britain as they, along with sailors, traders and adventurers, wove the diasporas of privilege. In making places and the connections between them, women also made themselves and their lives in new terms. In making use of the maps of territorial expansion in making themselves and their lives, the women featured in this article also contributed to forging versions of white (female) British subjectivities which bear the imprint of empire.
University of Chicago Press eBooks, 2009
University of Chicago Press eBooks, 2009
University of Chicago Press eBooks, 2009
University of Chicago Press eBooks, 2009
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Grammars of the Urban Ground
Sociedade e Cultura, 2018
This article offers reflections on the process of researchingtransnational migration, and particu... more This article offers reflections on the process of researchingtransnational migration, and particularly the fieldworkchallenges and difficulties that can emerge when studyingco-nationals abroad. Based on two distinct research projectson transnational migration (one on Brazilians in Londonand the other on Britons in Beijing), which used similarmethodological tools and faced similar challenges, we arguethatcombining a mobile ethnographic methodologicaltool (documenting journeys) with in-depth biographicalinterviews and historical and contextual analyses, makes ourdata open to analyse migration as a translocal process at thesame time that provides a connection between both macroand micro scales of analysis. Our methodological tools allowedus to understand how people speak of, engage with andnegotiate mobile experiences in their everyday lives, in themacro political and social structures organising immigrationand emigration.We conclude by reflecting on the challengesof researching co-nat...
Tempo Social, 2018
Nesta entrevista, Angelo Martins Jr. conversa com a professora Caroline Knowles, do Goldsmiths Co... more Nesta entrevista, Angelo Martins Jr. conversa com a professora Caroline Knowles, do Goldsmiths College/University of London, sobre seu recente livro Flip-Flop: a journey through globalisations ‘backroads’ (2014), que foi traduzido para o português e publicado pela Annablume com o título Nas trilhas de um chinelo: uma jornada pelas vias secundárias da globalização (2017).
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