Please see the message below from EARCAG conference secretariat. EARCAG stands for the East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography, which brings together critical geographers around the world who work on the East Asian region. This time, the conference is to be held in Hong Kong in December 2016. I’m also planning to attend this, […]
Having heard about a talk that I gave at The Hope Institute (see the summary of the talk here; also my contribution to The Hope Institute blog here), an editor of a magazine called Monthly Coffee asked me if it’s alright for them to publish a one-page summary of my talk. Then, I literally re-wrote it, […]
The Urban Studies Foundation that runs the journal Urban Studies has announced the next round of our International Fellowship programme. The closing date for applications is 29 April 2016. Please feel free to widely circulate this information to colleagues or postdoctoral students who may find it of interest. International Fellowship for Early to Mid-Career Urban Scholars from the […]
On 26 February 2016, I am giving an invited talk at the Centre of Korean Studies, SOAS. It will be interesting to present my on-going work in front of an audience that has primary interests in Korean affairs. More details about the talk can be found below. The Centre also hosts a number of interesting […]
This weekend in Bangkok, Thailand sees the opening of the city’s first ideas festival organised by River Books (a leading Thai and UK publishing house) and Chakrabongse Villas together with Bangkok Metropolitan Administration and Museum Siam. I am happy to be invited to take part in a couple of panels, one on What is the ‘New Asia’? and the other on Gentrification: […]
I am delighted to see the publication of the following special issue on Locating Gentrification in the Global East from Urban Studies as Volume 53, Issue 3. You may find the table of contents and all the papers on this page: http://usj.sagepub.com/content/53/3.toc (also see below). The abstract for the guest editors’ introduction provides some key thoughts behind this special […]
In anticipation of the forthcoming RGS-IBG annual conference in 2016, I am organising a session on Narrating Displacements – A Radical Way to Rethink Urban Theories and Politics. To be considered, please submit an abstract by 15 February 2016. Please feel free to forward to whoever may be interested in this topic. ===== CfP begins […]