Rights statement: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Gillen, J., Yu, M. H. M., Fan, G. H. N., and Ho, S. ( 2020) Literacies remaking public places: the Umbrella Movement of Hong Kong, 2014. Literacy, 54: 40– 48. https://doi.org/10.1111/lit.12212. which has been published in final form at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/lit.12212 This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Literacies remaking public places
T2 - The Umbrella Movement of Hong Kong, 2014
AU - Gillen, J
AU - Yu, Mandy Hoi Man
AU - Ho, Selena
AU - Fan, Gloria Ho Nga
N1 - This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Gillen, J., Yu, M. H. M., Fan, G. H. N., and Ho, S. ( 2020) Literacies remaking public places: the Umbrella Movement of Hong Kong, 2014. Literacy, 54: 40– 48. https://doi.org/10.1111/lit.12212. which has been published in final form at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/lit.12212 This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.
PY - 2020/5/1
Y1 - 2020/5/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
U2 - 10.1111/lit.12212
DO - 10.1111/lit.12212
M3 - Journal article
VL - 54
SP - 40
EP - 48
JO - Literacy
JF - Literacy
SN - 1741-4350
IS - 2
ER -