https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/02632764261437589<\/a><\/p>\n\nAbstract<\/p>\n\n
This article proposes survival epistemologies to name fragile, situated, and improvisational ways of knowing that take shape under repression. Centring Hong Kong as a site of ongoing crisis, I argue that when abstraction loses traction, theory emerges through constrained practices that provincialise generalisability and reorient method toward situated relations.<\/p>\n\n
Treating Hong Kong as an epistemic site rather than an object, I trace four scenes in independent publishing \u2013 rupture (zines), duration (indie bookshops), depth (hyperlocal writing), and reweaving (diasporic publishing) \u2013 to show how knowledge is kept alive through provisional infrastructures of care, refusal, and endurance.<\/p>\n\n
urvival epistemologies circulate not by scale but by resonance: they travel across contexts through recognition and method rather than universality. In this frame, authorship becomes encounter-making \u2013 amplifying situated practices and rendering their unfinished possibilities legible.<\/p>\n\n
The article contributes to postcolonial, decolonial, and feminist debates by offering a vocabulary for how theory persists and moves amid censorship, precarity, and fragmentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Author: Kin-Long Tong Source: Theory, Culture & Society Link: https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/02632764261437589<\/a> Abstract This article proposes survival epistemologies to name fragile, situated, and improvisational ways of knowing that take shape under repression. Centring Hong Kong as a site of ongoing crisis, I argue that when abstraction loses traction, theory emerges through constrained practices that provincialise generalisability and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145170531,"featured_media":6534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[776957933],"tags":[776958309,776958307,776958076,776958308],"class_list":["post-7976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category--en","tag-indepedent-publishing","tag-knowledge-production","tag-newsroom","tag-publishing-industry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/typesetter.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/article.png?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pai6UY-24E","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7476,"url":"https:\/\/typesetter.hk\/en\/2025\/12\/23\/article-towards-a-cyberpunk-translation-for-global-cities-a-study-of-kowloon-city-in-hong-kong\/","url_meta":{"origin":7976,"position":0},"title":"[Article] Towards a “Cyberpunk Translation” for Global Cities: A Study of Kowloon City in Hong Kong","author":"\u624b\u6c11\u51fa\u7248\u793e","date":"23\/12\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Author: Song Ge Source: Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice Link: https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/0907676X.2025.2509029 Abstract This research explores the relationship between cyberpunk aesthetics and translation in the context of Kowloon City, Hong Kong. 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