This year we met up in Hong Kong, partway through Rachel’s sabbatical and whilst Han and Hailing were able to travel more easily between Shenzhen and Hong Kong.
Although finding office space in the city is difficult, we based ourselves in Quarry Bay which had great options for lunch and dinner all around. We tried local cantonese food at some fabulous restaurants, and queued up with office workers for our coffees and bubble teas.
The focus of the retreat was on presenting work with a view to finding future directions in publication. Han presented work under preparation for this year’s American Anthropological Association conference, as well as parts of her forthcoming book manuscript. Hailing presented fieldnotes for discussion, and we talked about the possible papers that this rich data could give rise to. We also held talks around the concept of the ‘fake’, which will be the theme of a workshop next May in collaboration with the CATCH project. With precirculated readings and fieldnotes to form the basis of discussion, Rachel also made some visual minutes as a record.
visual notetaking by rachel
Finally, we completed the last edits to our collaboratively authored “Made in China” articles, which document the moral and practical dismantling of China’s COVID-zero policy. As short pieces ,they complement the forthcoming article Han, Hailing and Rachel have written for Commoning Ethnography, about ‘access’ and its politics in a time of pandemic. Please see the publications tab towards the end of 2023 for a link to this piece!
Although there was a time difference, we were still able to meet between Denmark and Hong Kong, although of course the Denmark-based participants missed out on the good food.
project members on screens
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