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Constructing a decolonized world city for consumption: discourses on Hong Kong Disneyland and their implications.
- Source :
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Social Semiotics . Nov2010, Vol. 20 Issue 5, p573-592. 20p. - Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- The paper argues that, under the globalized economy, state power is far from diminishing. I study how the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government officials in 1999 developed 'competition-development' discourse and 'disappearing-world-city' discourse to persuade the public to approve the unequal and non-transparent Hong Kong-Disney deal for setting up the Hong Kong Disneyland (HKDL). I also examine how newspaper reports have circulated and have reinforced these two pairs of political discourses in wider popular discourse. I further reveal, in the post-colonial context of HongKong, how the HKDL project functions to accomplish decolonization tasks and to reshape Hong Kong as a consumption-based tourist spot instead of a citizen-based participatory community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *INTERNATIONAL competition
*CONSUMPTION (Economics)
*DISCOURSE
*ECONOMIC history
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10350330
- Volume :
- 20
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Social Semiotics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 55328846
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2010.513192