Research Centre for Urban and Regional Development

International Conference on “From Vision to Reality: Driving Smart and Sustainable Urban and Regional Development”

17 May 2024   |   LT1, Esther Lee Building, CUHK

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Faculty of Social Science, the Department of Geography and Resource Management at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is organizing an International Conference on “From Vision to Reality: Driving Smart and Sustainable Urban and Regional Development”.

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Organizer
Department of Geography and Resource Management, CUHK

Co-Organizers
Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies
Urban Studies Programme, CUHK

Funding Support
Faculty of Social Science, CUHK

Speakers
Prof. Calvin K. L. Chung

Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Resource Management, CUHK

Prof. Michael Douglass

Professor Emeritus, Department of Urban and Regional Planning,
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, U.S.

Prof. Scarlet T. Jing

Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Resource Management, CUHK

Prof. Mee Kam Ng

Associate Director, HKIAPS

Prof. Nicholas Phelps

Associate Dean (International) and Chair of Urban Planning,
The University of Melbourne, Australia

Prof. Qian Zhu

Associate Professor, School of Planning, University of Waterloo, UK

Prof. Jianfa Shen

Director,
Research Centre for Urban and Regional Development, HKIAPS, CUHK

Prof. Tao Ran

Presidential Chair Professor,
Director of the Development and Governance Division, CUHK (Shenzhen)

Prof. Dennis Y. Wei

Professor, Geography Department, The University of Utah, US

Prof. Jiang Xu

Professor and Department Chairperson,
Department of Geography and Resource Management, CUHK

Chinese Law Programme

The Narrated Emotions of Femicide Perpetrators in Latin America:
A Common Emotional Economy?

16:00–17:30   |   27 May 2024   |   Room 422, Sino Building, CUHK

Co-Organizers
Department of Sociology, CUHK
Gender Studies Programme, CUHK

Speaker
Dr Martín Hernán Di Marco

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo, Norway

With the help of a micro-sociological approach to violence, the narrated emotions involved in the perpetration of femicide is identified. The data gathered is based on 33 open-ended interviews with convicted male perpetrators from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Honduras, Mexico, and Venezuela. The findings indicate femicide perpetrators resort to lethal violence to regulate self-worth and remediate actions they feel were disruptive. Consequently, this research demonstrates that understanding femicide as a product of a shared pervasive emotional economy points to the role of emotions in maintaining a gendered social order.