616
Views
0
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Tank to Table: Hong Kong’s Wet Markets and the Geographies of Lively Commodification Beyond Companionship

ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon & ORCID Icon
Pages 844-862 | Received 09 Feb 2023, Accepted 20 Dec 2023, Published online: 11 Mar 2024

References

  • Barua, M. 2016a. Lively commodities and encounter value. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 34 (4):725–44. doi: 10.1177/0263775815626420.
  • Barua, M. 2016b. Nonhuman labour, encounter value, spectacular accumulation: The geographies of a lively commodity. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 42 (2):274–88. doi: 10.1111/tran.12170.
  • Barua, M. 2018. Animal work: Metabolic, ecological, affective. Fieldsights, July 26. Accessed December 11, 2023. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/animal-work-metabolic-ecological-affective.
  • Bersaglio, B., and J. Margulies. 2022. Extinctionscapes: Spatializing the commodification of animal lives and afterlives in conservation landscapes. Social & Cultural Geography 23 (1):10–28. doi: 10.1080/14649365.2021.1876910.
  • Bougoure, U., and B. Lee. 2009. Service quality in Hong Kong: Wet markets vs supermarkets. British Food Journal 111 (1):70–79. doi: 10.1108/00070700910924245.
  • Bridge, G., J. McCarthy, and T. Perreault. 2015. Editor’s introduction. In The Routledge handbook of political ecology, ed. T. Perreault, G. Bridge, and J. McCarthy, 3–18. London and New York: Routledge.
  • Buller, H. 2014. Animal geographies I. Progress in Human Geography 38 (2):308–18. doi: 10.1177/0309132513479295.
  • Chan, V. 2023. Markets made modular: Constructing the modern “wet” market in Hong Kong’s public housing estates, 1969–1975. Urban History 50:799–817. doi: 10.1017/S0963926822000153.
  • Cheung, J. 2020. Inside wet markets, the heart of neighbourhood life in Hong Kong. Zolima City Mag, July 14. Accessed December 11, 2023. https://zolimacitymag.com/inside-wet-markets-the-heart-of-neighbourhood-life-in-hong-kong/.
  • Clement, S. 2019. GoProing: Becoming participant-researcher. In Feminist research for 21st century childhoods, ed. B. D. Hodgins, 149–58. London: Bloomsbury.
  • Collard, R. C. 2014. Putting animals back together, taking commodities apart. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 104 (1):151–65. doi: 10.1080/00045608.2013.847750.
  • Collard, R. C., and J. Dempsey. 2013. Life for sale: The politics of lively commodities. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 45 (11):2682–99. doi: 10.1068/a45692.
  • Cronon, W. 1991. Nature’s metropolis: Chicago and the great West. New York: Norton.
  • Freidberg, S. 2007. Supermarkets and imperial knowledge. Cultural Geographies 14 (3):321–42. doi: 10.1177/1474474007078203.
  • Freidberg, S. 2010. Fresh: A perishable history. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Gerlofs, B. A. 2021. Seismic shifts: Recentering geology and politics in the Anthropocene. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 111 (3):828–36. doi: 10.1080/24694452.2020.1835458.
  • Gibbs, L. M. 2020. Animal geographies I: Hearing the cry and extending beyond. Progress in Human Geography 44 (4):769–77. doi: 10.1177/0309132519863483.
  • Gillespie, K. 2021. The afterlives of the lively commodity: Life-worlds, death-worlds, rotting-worlds. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 53 (2):280–95. doi: 10.1177/0308518X20944417.
  • Goldman, A., R. Krider, and S. Ramaswami. 1999. The persistent competitive advantage of traditional food retailers in Asia: Wet markets’ continued dominance in Hong Kong. Journal of Macromarketing 19 (2):126–39. doi: 10.1177/0276146799192004.
  • Haraway, D. 2008. When species meet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  • Hovorka, A. J. 2017. Animal geographies I: Globalizing and decolonizing. Progress in Human Geography 41 (3):382–94. doi: 10.1177/0309132516646291.
  • Lo, H. Y., W. Cheung, and O. Liu. 2023. Hong Kong to ban Japanese seafood imports from 10 prefectures after country announces plan to release Fukushima waste water starting Thursday. South China Morning Post, August 22. Accessed December 11, 2023. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3231886/hong-kong-leader-john-lee-calls-immediate-curbs-japanese-seafood-after-country-announces-plans.
  • Marinelli, M. 2018. From street hawkers to public markets: Modernity and sanitization made in Hong Kong. In Cities in Asia by and for the people, ed. Y. Cabannes, M. Douglass, and R. Padawangi, 229–57. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
  • Mele, C., M. Ng, and M. B. Chim. 2015. Urban markets as a “corrective” to advanced urbanism: The social space of wet markets in contemporary Singapore. Urban Studies 52 (1):103–20. doi: 10.1177/0042098014524613.
  • Ni’am, L., S. Koot, and J. Jongerden. 2021. Selling captive nature: Lively commodification, elephant encounters, and the production of value in Sumatran ecotourism, Indonesia. Geoforum 127:162–70. doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.10.018.
  • Parreñas, R. J. S. 2012. Producing affect: Transnational volunteerism in a Malaysian orangutan rehabilitation center. American Ethnologist 39 (4):673–87. doi: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01387.x.
  • Povinelli, E. 2016. Geontologies: A requiem to late liberalism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
  • Power, E. 2012. Domestication and the dog: Embodying home. Area 44 (3):371–78. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2012.01098.x.
  • Rancière, J. 2010. Dissensus: On politics and aesthetics. London: Bloomsbury.
  • Robbins, P. [2004] 2012. Political ecology. 2nd ed. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Ross, R. B. 2008. Contradictions of cultural production and the geographies that (mostly) resolve them: 19th-century baseball and the rise of the 1980 Players’ League. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 26 (6):983–1000. doi: 10.1068/d4408.
  • Schroeder, R. 2018. Moving targets: The “canned” hunting of captive-bred lions in South Africa. African Studies Review 61 (1):8–32. doi: 10.1017/asr.2017.94.
  • Shell, J. 2019. Giants of the monsoon forest: Living and working with elephants. New York: Norton.
  • St. Martin, K. 2005. Disrupting enclosure in New England fisheries. Capitalism Nature Socialism 16 (1):63–80. doi: 10.1080/1045575052000335375.
  • Tsing, A., H. Swanson, E. Gan, and N. Bubandt, eds. 2017. Arts of living on a damaged planet: Monsters of the Anthropocene. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  • Verheijen, F. J., and W. F. G. Flight. 2008. Decapitation and brining: Experimental tests show that after these commercial methods for slaughtering eel Anguilla anguilla (L.), death is not instantaneous. Aquaculture Research 28 (5):361–66. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2109.1997.tb01053.x.
  • Whatmore, S. 2002. Hybrid geographies: Natures, cultures, spaces. London: Sage.
  • Wilson, R. 2015. Mobile bodies: Animal migration in North American history. Geoforum 65:465–72. doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.04.001.
  • Wright, M. 2006. Disposable women and other myths of global capitalism. London and New York: Routledge.
  • Yam, S. Y. S. 2022. Towards a differential ethics of belonging in a transnational context: Navigating the Hong Kong movement in the US in 2020 and 2021. Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 43 (3):29–62. doi: 10.1353/fro.2022.0023.
  • Yusoff, K. 2018. A billion black Anthropocenes or none. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  • Zhong, S., M. Crang, and G. Zeng. 2020. Constructing freshness: The vitality of wet markets in urban China. Agriculture and Human Values 37 (1):175–85. doi: 10.1007/s10460-019-09987-2.