Hello Habitus
My thoughts on cross-cultural collaboration and how it informs my own writing has grown from this semester of work. At the beginning of the course, I was overwhelmed by the number of new phrases and ideas being discussed. I had never heard the word ‘habitus’ used and suddenly it was everywhere. Learning about the concept and seeing how other people’s habitus has informed their work, made me feel like my own was not wide enough to inspire anything interesting. A lot of the readings we studied had complex ideas and were written by people who had experienced a number of important and interesting things in their habitus. I found these readings really dense and hard to understand at first, but listening to others in the class discuss them brought up fresh perspectives and simplified the ideas for me. Speaking about the readings for the oral presentation forced me to think deeply about them. I found the ‘City of Protest’ reading really interesting as it presented a side of Hong Kong ...