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 […]
On 21st September 2019, I enjoyed the visit to O.P. Jindal Global University to give a keynote at the Inter-Disciplinary Workshop in Development Studies organised by the Centre for New Economics Studies, Jindal School of International Affairs. The workshop’s theme was “Urban Transformations”, and my keynote was entitled “Urban Transformation with ‘Asian Style’: Reflections on […]
On 17th September 2019, it was my pleasure to visit the Jawaharlal Nehru University and give a lecture at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development. My talk was titled “In the shadow of state-led gentrification: The commercialisation of residential properties in Seoul”. The visit also involved discussions with colleagues at the Centre for the […]
On 12th September 2019, it was pleasure to visit Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore and give a talk entitled “Urbanisation of (East Asian) Capital, and the Rise of Enclave Urbanism in Vietnam”. Many thanks to Prof Tim Bunnell (Director of ARI) for the invitation and to Prof Ho Kong Chong for chairing […]
Happy to see the final publication of this new paper, “Contextualizing Accumulation by Dispossession: The State and High-Rise Apartment Clusters in Gangnam, Seoul”, from the Annals of the American Association of Geographers. The fruition of this co-authored paper has taken many years, and it’s great to conclude this project with this output. Abstract: In an […]
From 27th August to 31st August 2019, I was in Seoul, South Korea, attending the workshop “Reconsidering Korean Urban and Regional Development Experiences: Implication for International Cooperation” hosted by the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements and organised by Dr Se-Hoon Park at KRIHS. My own talk was entitled “Urban Transformation with ‘Korean Style’: Lessons from Property-based Redevelopment […]
On their way to one of the field trip sties, the Urban Spectre of Global China project team including Dr Sin Yee Koh from University of Monash Malaysia and Dr Yimin Zhao from Renmin University of China met up in Singapore with Dr Choon-Piew Pow at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore to […]