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The book examines disability using different social theories. It explores the intersection of disability with different identity categories such as sex/gender, class, and race/ethnicity, aiming to integrate the emerging theories in various disciplines with disability studies to enhance the understanding of disability as an evolving concept.
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Max Hirsh, a leading expert on airports and urban development, coined and operationalized the term airport urbanism. According to Hirsh, it is a “people-focused approach in designing airports and planning urban developments around the airport. It highlights the desires and needs of people who use the airport on a regular basis such as passengers, employees,…
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Ian Morley’s American Colonisation and the City Beautiful delves into the fascinating history of urban planning in the Philippines during the American colonial period, specifically between 1916 and 1935. This period marked a shift in governance, with urban planning becoming a means of exerting influence through the City Beautiful movement, an American concept that sought to promote…
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In this book, Margaret Magat discusses how the Filipino delicacy balut, or cooked fertilized egg, has become a popular symbol of Filipino culinary culture and the Filipino diaspora. The first meeting of the CUHK Philippine Studies Reading Group discussed Margaret Magat’s monograph on a well-known Filipino street food, the fertilized duck egg called balut. In the book, examines balut through…
CUHK Philippine Studies Interdisciplinary Reading Group 