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Adolfo Arranz, infografista del South China Morning Post

La interrelación de Asia con España se afianza cada vez más. Más allá de los contactos comerciales y diplomáticos, la circulación de personas se ha incrementado significativamente con el éxodo de profesionales españoles durante los últimos años. 

Si bien no se quedó sin trabajo, la crisis también empezaba a notarse para el profesional de la infografía periodística Adolfo Arranz.  Quien hasta hace dos años era el responsable de infografías de algunas secciones territoriales del periódico El Mundo, recibió una inesperada e interesante oferta del periódico de Hong Kong South China Morning Post (SCMP). Tras pensarlo bien, Arranz decidió  hacer las maletas e irse a vivir y trabajar a Hong Kong, quizá uno de los lugares de mayor contraste con el pueblecito palentino de Guardo donde vivía. Con una reciente Medalla de Oro de los Asian Digital Media Awards, Arranz ha hablado con el miembro de InterAsia Xavier Ortells sobre la vida en Hong Kong y sus celebradas infografías.

 

12th EastAsiaNet Research Workshop

Sean Golden, a member of the Inter-Asia research group, gave a talk at the 12th EastAsiaNet Research Workshop organised by the Institut d'Asie Orientale - Sciences-Po Lyon and the Institut d'Etudes Transtextuelles et Transculturelles - Université Jean-Moulin Lyon 3, on 17-18 October 2013, dedicated to: 

Future Cities and Space Reconfiguration in East Asia: Practices and Representations, Risk and Opportunities 

on the topic of:

Urban policies and governance of the risks of urban environmental calamities and urban development: a discourse analysis of official and non-official communication

Abstract

This paper will present a case study of three sources of discourse for the communication of urban ecological risk in the PRC and its subsequent management. The three sources are: the discourse of informal, nongovernmental or emergent civil society communication of ecological risk (social movements, protest movements, critical analysis of risk and governmental policy); the discourse of formal or academic, nongovernmental communication of ecological risk (academics, advisers, opinion-makers); the official, governmental communication of ecological risk (official think tanks, ministry documents). New political terminology is emerging, whose analysis can reveal contemporary tensions in social, economic and political policy-making. One the one hand, terms such as “social construction” 社会建设  shèhuì jiànshè, “social system reform” 社会體制改革 shèhuì tízhì gǎigé“ or social self-governance” 社會自治 [社会自治] shèhuī zìzhì might imply a growing role for Chinese "civil society" 民间社会 mínjiān shèhuì. On the other hand, terms and statements such as  “social management” 社会管理  shèhuì guǎnlǐ, "stability preservation" 维护稳定 wéihù wěndìng/维稳 wéiwěn or “‘civil society’ is a ‘Western pitfall’” “公民社会”是西方陷阱 gōngmín shèhuì shì xīfāng xiànjǐng seem to imply serious opposition to social or political reform. In 2010, 习近平 Xi Jinping told Party members in a speech at the Central Party School that “power is given by the people, and power is used for the people.” In 2011, 周本順  Zhōu Běnshùn, secretary of the Party’s Central Politics and Law Commission, attacked the idea of social organizations working independently of the government, saying China had to avoid the “pitfall of ‘civil society’ designed for us by certain Western nations.” Now the debate is centering around what the "Chinese Dream" 中國夢 Zhōngguó mèng might be. Three cases of urban planning and governance --Chongqing 重慶, Guangzhou  广州 and Wukan 烏坎-- provide three contrasting visions of urban policies and governance of the risks of urban environmental calamities and urban development.