Agnes Shuk-mei KU (PhD, UCLA, 1995) Associate Professor of Social Science Office: Room 3369, Academic Building Tel: (852) 2358-7784 Email: soagnes@ust.hk Vitae: PDF

Research Interests

• Cultural Sociology
• Civil Society
• Hong Kong Culture and Politics
• Gender Issues
• Urban Space in Chinese Cities
  

Representative Publications

1. 2008. "Civil Society's Dual Impetus ˇV Mobilizations, Representations and Contestations over the First of July March in 2003." In Ming Sing (ed). Government and Politics in Hong Kong ˇV Crises under Chinese Sovereignty. London: RoutledgeCurzon.
2. 2004, Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong: Community, Nation, and the Global City. (with Ngai Pun (eds)) Routledge.
3. 2004, "Negotiating the Space of Civil Autonomy in Hong Kong - Power, Discourses, and Dramaturgical Representations." The China Quarterly, September issue.
4. 2004, "Immigration Policies, Discourses, and the Politics of Local Belonging in Hong Kong (1950-80)." Modern China, July issue.
5. 2004, "The Making and Unmaking of Civic Solidarity: Comparing the Coping Responses of Civil Societies in Hong Kong and Taiwan during the SARS Crises." (with Horng-luen Wang), Asian Perspective, 28 (1): 121-147.
6. 2002, "Beyond the Paradoxical Conception of ˇĄCivil Society without Citizenship.'" International Sociology, 17(4):529-548.
7. 2001, "The ˇĄPublic' Up Against the State - Credibility Crisis and Narrative Cracks in Post-Colonial Hong Kong." Theory, Culture and Society 18 (1): 121-44.
8. 2000, "Revisiting the Notion of ˇĄPublic' in Habermas's Theory - Towards a Theory of Politics of Public Credibility." Sociological Theory, 18 (2) pp. 216-240.
9. 1999, Narratives, Politics and the Public Sphere - Struggles over Political Reform in the Final Transitional Years in Hong Kong (1992-94). Aldershot: Ashgate.
10. 1998, "Boundary Politics in the Public Sphere - Openness, Secrecy and Leak." Sociological Theory, 16 (2): 172-192.

Forthcoming / Work In Progress

• Ku, Agnes S. (accepted) "Making Heritage in Hong Kong: A Case Study of the Central Police Station Compound." The China Quarterly.
• Ku, Agnes S. 2009, "Contradictions in the Development of Citizenship in Hong Kong - Governance without Democracy." , Asian Survey.
• 2008, "The 'Global City' as a Cultural Project - The Case of West Kowloon Cultural District." in Helen Siu and Agnes S. Ku (eds), (with C.Tsui), Hong Kong Mobile: Making a Global Population. Hong Kong: HKU Press.

Professional Services

• Editor, Social Transformation in Chinese Societies, 2006 -
• Associate Editor, Sociological Theory, 2008 -
• Editorial Board Member, Sociology Compass, 2007 -
• Board Member, International Sociological Association Research Committee 16 (Social Theory), 2006 -
• Vice-President (2004ˇV06) and Council Member (2007 - ), Hong Kong Sociological Association
• Faculty Associate, Centre for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, 2004 -

Courses Taught

• SOSC 185: Introduction to Sociology
• SOSC 313: Hong Kong Culture
• SOSC 565: Civil Society
• MALS 534: Hong Kong Culture and Society