Research Project Overview and Description
This project utilizes ArcGIS to create a spatial mapping of key locations in colonial Hong Kong, focusing on the intersection of urban history, identity, and everyday life. By organizing archival and historical data into an interactive GIS platform, the research aims to visualize the city’s colonial development and heritage. The initiative provides a digital humanities framework for exploring how historical spaces reflect social narratives of belonging and the evolution of urban colonial societies.
This project utilizes ArcGIS to create a spatial mapping of key locations in colonial Hong Kong, focusing on the intersection of urban history, identity, and everyday life. By organizing archival and historical data into an interactive GIS platform, the research aims to visualize the city’s colonial development and heritage. The initiative provides a digital humanities framework for exploring how historical spaces reflect social narratives of belonging and the evolution of urban colonial societies.
Research Outcome
The project will deliver an interactive GIS platform and spatial mapping of key locations in colonial Hong Kong, providing a digital humanities framework to visualize urban development and heritage. By organizing archival data into a digital format, the research aims to uncover social narratives of belonging and the evolution of urban colonial societies. The findings are expected to contribute to a deeper understanding of Hong Kong’s historical spaces and may lead to academic publications or digital heritage archives.
About the Researcher
Dr. Elizabeth La Couture is an Assistant Professor in the Gender Studies Programme and the Department of History at the University of Hong Kong, where she serves as the founding director of Gender Studies. A historian of gender, race, and everyday life in the Sinophone world, she holds a PhD from Columbia University and is the author of Dwelling in the World: Family, House, and Home in Tianjin, China, 1860-1960. Avian Lam is a student of History at the University of Hong Kong whose research focuses on identity and belonging in urban colonial societies.
Fund Source
N/A
For enquiries
please contact at atlab@hku.hk