
Dr Marco Montagner
Lecturer
montm@hku.hk
+852 3917 4641
Biography
I joined HKU’s Department of Sociology in 2022, and I have been a lecturer at CUHK’s Department of Anthropology since 2019. I conducted two long-term ethnographies on internal and international migrants in Guangdong province. My work has focused on migrants’ space, the dyad privilege/discrimination, urban planning, and the mentality of governing. My current research projects are based in Hong Kong, one about ethnic minorities’ spaces and another about patterns of body movement and a developing fitness trend.
Courses taught
SOCI1003 (1st semester) Introduction to anthropology
SOCI4095 (1st semester) Capstone project in sociology
SOCI4096 (1st semester) Capstone project in criminology
SOCI4098 (1st semester) Capstone project in media and cultural studies
SOCI7007 (2nd semester) Globalization and cultural mosaic: An Asian perspective
Sports culture under global capitalism
Education
Ph.D. in Anthropology
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
M.Phil. in Sociology
University of Padova
B.A. in Sociology
University of Padova
Research interests
Anthropology of space and place, urban planning, governmentality, migrations, high-/low-end globalization, anthropology of sports, embodiment
Selected publications
2021. Review of Africans Transnational Mobility in China: Africans on the Move, by Roberto Castillo. Asian Anthropology. DOI: 10.1080/1683478X.2021.1970709