Desmond Sham
desmondsham.bsky.social
Desmond Sham
@desmondsham.bsky.social
✤Assistant Professor in Cultural and Creative Industries @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
✤Cultural Studies | #PostcolonialStudies | #CulturalHeritage | #Memory | Urban Culture | Cultural Identity | #Sinophone | E&SE Asia
✤Views are my own
My latest publication in the Developing Economies. The article challenges the prevalent use of "gentrification" as a catch-all critique of culture-led regeneration and neighbourhood transformations in Sinophone Asia. 1/
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
We were told that the lecture hall at the University of Florence was previously a church. Thus, @evacyli.bsky.social and I did present our paper under the Heavenly One.
December 15, 2024 at 8:25 AM
I will be presenting at the Symposium: 'Law, Economy and Society in NSL-era Hong Kong: 40 Years After the Sino-British Joint Declaration' at SOAS on 5 Dec.

Registration: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
November 21, 2024 at 9:45 PM