Dr. Daisy Dic Sze Tam | 譚迪詩博士
Assistant Professor
Department of Humanities & Creative Writing
Hong Kong Baptist University
O: RRS609
P: 3411 5871
E: daisytam@hkbu.edu.hk
Dr. Tam received her Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research interests include ethical food practices, food waste, food and urbanism, critical food studies, everyday life studies, migrant workers, ethnography, critical theory, cultural and media theory. Her current research on food waste and the city is a theoretical and technological project that explores the potential of collective food rescue practice.
Her recent publications include Towards a Parasitic Ethics in Theory, Culture and Society London: Sage [forthcoming]; The Hidden Market: The Alternative Borough Market in Evers, C. & Seale K. (eds) (2014) Informal Urban Street Markets: International Perspectives New York: Routledge. p73-80; Little Manila: The Other Central of Hong Kong in Messy Urbanism University of Hong Kong Press [forthcoming]; 不速之客? 香港的菲律賓人口 in 再見亞洲 – 全球化時代的解構與重建Hong Kong: Chinese University Press. p195-204
Full Curriculum Vitae
Research Interests:
2015 – 2016
Da Tung Interdisciplinary Research Fellow
2016 – 2017
GRF General Research Grant
Enabling Ethical Food Futures – surplus food practices as commons
UGC funded HKD 242,200
2014 – 2015
GRF General Research Grant
The Capacity for Ethics – food practices in Hong Kong
UGC funded HKD 275,000
2013 – 2014
KTP Knowledge Transfer Partnership
Greener Living – micro-urban farming and turning waste into resource
UGC funded HKD 100,000 (short-listed for the 2015 KTP Award)
2015 – 2016
FRG Cat II:
Towards an Ethics of Commons – Surplus Food Rescue in Hong Kong
HKBU funded HKD 150,000
2012 – 2014
FRG Cat II:
Forming Communities – an interdisciplinary approach to understanding social cohesion
HKBU funded HKD 100,000
2013 – 2014
FRG Cat I:
Transforming the Parasite – ethical waste in food practices
HKBU funded HKD 50,000
2014 – 2016
(Co-I) Teaching Development Grant
Enhancing whole person development by co-curriculum activities: herbal green campuses (PI Prof Hong Qi Zhang School of Chinese Medicine, HKBU)
HKD 300, 000
Courses Taught:
Food, Culture and Society
Politics of the Ordinary
Introduction to the Humanities
Media and Communication: Issues, Concepts, Theories
Book Chapters (refereed):
1. [forthcoming] Little Manila: The Other Central of Hong Kong inMessy Urbanism University of Hong Kong Press
2. (2014) “The Hidden Market: The Alternative Borough Market” in Evers, C. & Seale K. (eds) Informal Urban Street Markets: International Perspectives New York: Routledge. p73-80.
3. (2014) 不速之客? 香港的菲律賓人口 in 再見亞洲 – 全球化時代的解構與重建
Hong Kong: Chinese University Press. p195-204
4. (2014) “Fotanian: Communality without Collectivity” in Marques, L. and Richards, G. (eds) Creative Districts Around the World [e-book] Available from: http://creativedistricts.imem.nl/ p179-184
5. (2011) Dancing in the Streets of Shanghai in Cheung, D. & Cunanan, T. et al (eds) Invisible – Cycles of Experience Vol. 6 香港: 匯智出版有限公司p30-35
6. (2011) “Inextricable Aesthetics: packaging ethics in markets and supermarkets” in Menrath, S. & Schwinghammer A. (eds) in That’s What a Chameleon Looks Like. Contesting Immersive CultureCologne, Germany: Herbert von Halem Verlag. p198-222
7. (2008) “The Art of ‘Slow’: Taking Time in the Digital Age” in Leung, L. (ed) Digital Experience Design: Ideas, Industries, Interaction Bristol: Intellect Books p49-56
Journal Publications (refereed unless otherwise stated)
8. In the Mood for Adobo (e-article) Philippine Consulate (23000+ audience reached. 660+ Likes) (non-refereed)
9. Snacking Behaviour and Perception of Healthy Foods among Chinese Adolescents Health Education (submitted)
10. Towards a Parasitic Ethics in Theory, Culture and Society London: Sage [accepted and forthcoming]
11. (2014) The Return of Home Cooking – question of nostalgia, foreigners and nationalism) in Evers, C. (ed) Altitude: An e-journal of emerging Humanities work [online] (accepted)
12. (2010) 在上海街頭跳舞 in Journal of Local Discourse 本土論述 台北市 : 漫遊者文化事業股份有限公司p245-254
13. (2009) 家常便飯Home Cooking: On Collective Memory and Identity in Journal of Local Discourse 本土論述 台北市 : 漫遊者文化事業股份有限公司p231-244
14. (2008) Slow Journeys in Tam, D. & Frost, N. (eds) Food, Culture and Society Berg (11:2) p207-218
15. (2008) Food Journeys – Culinary Travels in Time and Space Introduction to Slow Journeys in Food Culture and Society Berg (11:2) p127-132
Editorship:
Guest Editor of ‘Food Journeys’ special issue of Food, Culture and Society Berg 2008 (11: 2) co-edited with Nicola Frost
Grants:
2016 – 2017
GRF General Research Grant
Enabling Ethical Food Futures – surplus food practices as commons
UGC funded HKD 242,200
2014 – 2015
GRF General Research Grant
The Capacity for Ethics – food practices in Hong Kong
UGC funded HKD 275,000
2013 – 2014
KTP Knowledge Transfer Partnership
Greener Living – micro-urban farming and turning waste into resource
UGC funded HKD 100,000 (short-listed for the 2015 KTP Award)
2015 – 2016
FRG Cat II:
Towards an Ethics of Commons – Surplus Food Rescue in Hong Kong
HKBU funded HKD 150,000
2012 – 2014
FRG Cat II:
Forming Communities – an interdisciplinary approach to understanding social cohesion
HKBU funded HKD 100,000
2013 – 2014
FRG Cat I:
Transforming the Parasite – ethical waste in food practices
HKBU funded HKD 50,000
2014 – 2016
(Co-I) Teaching Development Grant
Enhancing whole person development by co-curriculum activities: herbal green campuses (PI Prof Hong Qi Zhang School of Chinese Medicine, HKBU)
HKD 300, 000