Research News

A new paper on the politics of temporality in Asia, published in the journal CITY

Prof. Hyun Bang Shin has published a new article, titled “Whither progressive urban futures?Critical reflections on the politics of temporality in Asia” in City.This article is co-authored with Dr Sin Yee Koh (Monash University Malaysia) and Dr Yimin Zhao (Remnin University), both alumni of the PhD programme in Human Geography and Urban Studies in the Department of Geography and Environment. The article can be […]

Tokyo 2020 and COVID19

I have come across with this news today, which reports on the IOC’s consideration of postponing the Tokyo 2020. Such spectacles as Olympic Games entail a sense of ‘state of emergency’, leading to the suspension of normal planing processes and diversion of investment in necessary social and physical infrastructure for the poor and the marginalised. […]

Invited talk at Khazanah Research Institute

On 16th December 2019, it was my pleasure to visit the Khazanah Research Institute in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to discuss potential research collaborations with Dr Suraya Ismail who also showed me around her social housing project sites. On 17th December, I visited the institute again to give a talk entitled, “Contesting Property Hegemony in Asian […]

Book Launch: “Neoliberal Urbanism, Contested Cities and Housing in Asia”

On 3rd December 2019, LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre, along with the Department of Geography and Environment, co-hosted the book launch for the 2019 book “Neoliberal Urbanism, Contested Cities and Housing in Asia” that I co-edited with Dr. Yi Ling Chen (Associate Professor of Global and Area Studies and Geography, University of Colorado Boulder) (see the […]

RC21 Conference in Delhi, India

From  15th – 22nd September 2019, RC21 conference, “In and Beyond the City: Emerging Ontologies, Persistent Challenges and Hopeful Futures” was held in Delhi, India, and the visit to Delhi was a memorable one. At the conference, I convened sessions entitled “The Urban Spectre of ‘Global China’ and Critical Reflections on its Spatiality” together with my co-investigators […]

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