On 25th April 2019, I had the pleasure of giving an open lecture at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies on the topic of “In the shadow of state-led gentrification: The commercialisation of residential properties in Seoul”. The abstract of the lecture can be found below. Abstract: This talk examines the rise and […]
On Thursday 1 November 2018, I had the pleasure of giving an invited lecture on ‘China’s Urbanisation and Gentrification as State Project’ at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo. My lecture discussed how gentrification has become a state project in key metropolises of China resulting in not only the mass […]
On 23 and 24 March 2018, I had the pleasure of visiting Tokyo to give two invited talks. On 23 March, the talk was at the Association of Japanese Geographers 2018 Spring Conference and was entitled “Unequal Cities of Spectacle in the Global East”. It was great to interact with urban geographers in Japan. On […]
지어진지 40년 가까이 된 개포동 저층 주공단지가 재건축으로 사라져갑니다. 그 와 함께 서울의 한 기억도 사라져 가고, 이곳에 터를 잡고 살았던 사람들도 상당수 떠나야 합니다. 그들에게 축출의 (displacement) 시간이 다가오고 있습니다. 젠트리피케이션을 얘기하면서 사람들의 축출만을 생각했는데, 막상 개포동을 다녀오고 나니 사람 뿐만 아니라 몇십년 동안 그 자리를 지키고 그 공간과 일부분이 된 수많은 나무들이 눈에 […]
I am heading to take a part in the KOSMOS-Workshop “Universal Gentrification? Conceptional Challenges of Comparative Urbanism”” at Humboldt University in Berlin, organised by Dr Andrej Holm, and the first event scheduled will be the following book talk at a Berlin bookshop called “Pro qm”. This takes place on 14 October from 8.30 pm. Address: Pro qm, Almstadtstraße 48-50, D-10119 […]
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: […]