The summer has been a busy period for me, partly to put together a series of events for autumn this year for the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre (SEAC) that I’ve been directing since 2018. It is my pleasure to share the confirmed weekly events including research seminars, which bring together speakers from across […]
This new edited volume entitled ‘On the Margins of Urban South Korea: Core Location as Method and Praxis’ is an important volume that is interdisciplinary and adventurous while critical and insightful. It brings together colleagues who have been working on urban Korea from various disciplinary perspectives, and makes a great contribution to the on-going efforts […]
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 […]
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. […]
LSE is one of the first universities in the UK to deliver the rest of teaching online as part of its effort to tackle the COVID19 pandemic situation, and also to switch summer term written exams into online assessments. All public events are also to be cancelled or postponed. My department is to enact this […]
On 3rd February 2020, it was pleasure to be invited and speak on the topic, “Neoliberal Urbanism and Social Movements Responses to Housing Struggles in Asia” for a UCL workshop on the new British Academy-funded project on living heritage and spatial violence in Myanmar, led by SEAC Associate Dr Catalina Ortiz (Bartlett Development Planning Unit, UCL).
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 […]
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 […]
On 13th November 2019, it was my honour to speak at the concluding Plenary of the three-day UCL conference entitled, ‘At the frontiers of the urban: thinking concepts and practices globally.’ Chaired by Prof Jenny Robinson and also joined by Prof Vanessa Watson and Prof AbdouMaliq Simone, the plenary provided a set of concluding reflections […]
On 8th November 2019, it was my honour to give a public lecture at the University College London as part of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) public lecture series. This event coincided with the annual meeting of the IJURR editorial board, which I was attending as a new board member. The […]