New publication release in #openaccess: “#COVID19 in #Southeast#Asia: Insights for a Post-Pandemic World”. All chapters and the entire volume can be downloaded free of charge.Excited to see the release of this new edited volume that has been result of hard labour by SEAC colleagues and collaborators during the pandemic.The volume brings together 38 contributors altogether, […]
December turning into January marks the start of a new year, and I’ve been thinking of how to mark this transition this time round. While the year 2020 is likely to be remembered as a difficult year due to the COVID-19 pandemic (which continues into 2021), I would like to bid farewell to 2020 by […]
I am honoured and humbled to be elected by the editorial board of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (@IJURResearch) to serve as its new editor, starting from 1 January 2021 (see the link here). I’ll be working closely with brilliant two other fellow editors, Mustafa Dikeç and Liza Weinstein (@lizaweinstein). The journal’s […]
For (Asia) urbanists, there is an exciting virtual symposium taking place this Friday 6 November 2020, organised by jointly by York University, Canada and by the Centre for the Study of Korea at the University of Toronto. The symposium, rescheduled from its original March 2020 schedule due to COVID-19, is to address ‘Making and Unmaking […]
I haven’t had a moment to put together PhD success of my former doctoral students. Here is a summary of those celebratory memories in recent years, together with my wholehearted congratulations to all of them and best wishes to their career. The oral examinations in 2020 under COVID-19 constraints were particularly challenging, as they had […]
Pleasure to announce the release of a new discussion paper as part of the Discussion Paper Series published by the Department of Geography and Environment at LSE. Co-authored with Dr Mara Nogueira, PhD alumna in Human Geography and Urban Studies, the paper investigates the relations between work and urban space, focusing on the struggles of […]
Park, S-H., Shin, H.B. and Kang, H-S. (eds.) (2021) Exporting Urban Korea? Reconsidering the Korean Urban Development Experience. Routledge I’m pleased to see the cover design and the publisher proofs of a new forthcoming book that I co-edited with Dr Se Hoon Park and Dr Hyun Soo Kang. This book is A detailed examination of the “Korean […]
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. […]
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).