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Sep 2020
1h 41m

Hong Kong, Disappearances and the Emotio...

Elia Ayoub
About this episode

This is a conversation with Shui-yin Sharon Yam, a US-based Hongkonger academic who has been writing on various topics.

It is a long conversation about Hong Kong, being a member of the  diaspora who may not be able to go back, how Hong Kongers can learn from  other people’s experiences with disinformation, as well as the  emotional cost of that disinformation on Sharon and I.

She is Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies,  and a faculty affiliate of Gender and Women Studies at the University  of Kentucky.

Her research focuses on questions of identity, citizenship, affect,  and race. She teaches courses on transnational rhetoric, digital  composing, and political emotion.

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