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Graduate Student Research

Po-Yi Hung — Improvised Place-Making for Globalization: Spatiality and Landscape in Northwest Yunnan, China

Po-Yi HungPo-Yi Hung : Spatiality is the critical medium for disclosing the relational processes underpinning the superficial juxtaposition of different elements, and landscape is the essential avenue for understanding the historical sedimentation of contingent place-making. The nexus of place-making, spatiality and landscape makes me propose three research questions for the dissertation project: 1) In the context of globalization, how is place-making mediated through relational spatiality and materialized in historicized landscapes? 2) What are the implications of redefinitions of a place as (re)articulations for state and international projects about development and conservation? 3) How has the contingent place-making translated into and been reshaped by people’s everyday practices?