It’s with great pleasure that my colleagues and I have been awarded a British Academy grant for its Tackling the UK’s International Challenges programme. The project, titled “The Urban Spectre of Global China: Mechanisms, Consequences, and Alternatives for Urban Futures”, is to run until July 2020, examining four large-scale property development projects of Chinese capital, to question […]
I have posted earlier (see here) about a new forthcoming book from @Palgrave_, Neoliberal Urbanism, Contested Cities and Housing in Asia, and it is my pleasure to confirm that the book proof has been finalised and it’s ready for the final production. The book’s cover image is also finalised and is attached here as follows. The image shows an aerial view of […]
I have learnt from the publisher Polity Press yesterday that the sale of the right to publish Planetary Gentrification in Simplified Chinese is concluded. I am please with the prospect of readers from mainland China being able to read the book in Simplified Chinese. I look forward to receiving the translated copies soon.
Colleagues and students interested in understanding the ‘developmentalist’ interpretation of urbanisation in East Asia would be delighted to see the this new volume, Developmentalist Cities? Interrogating Urban Developmentalism in East Asia, edited by Jamie Doucette (University of Manchester) and Bae-Gyoon Park (Seoul National University), published by Brill in November 2018. I am pleased to receive an author copy of this new book […]
Happy to see the publication of this volume, which includes a paper of mine entitled “Urban movements and the genealogy of urban rights discourses: the case of urban protesters against redevelopment and displacement in Seoul, South Korea” previously published in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers (http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/84866/). The new edited volume is the republication […]
Happy to announce this call for papers for a stream that I am organizing with two of my excellent former PhD students. We have been developing this particular research, and would like to interact with colleagues who share similar interests and critical perspectives. Deadline: 20th January 2019. RC21 CFP: S6 – The Urban Spectre of ‘Global China’ and […]
I have been busying myself during the autumn term with an LSE centre called Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre, which I hav begun directing since the beginning of August 2018. This newsletter in the tweet below sums up some of the activities of the Centre. #SawSweeHock #SoutheastAsiaCentre http://bit.ly/SEAC2018MT NEWS Prof Hyun Bang Shin appointed as LSE […]
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 […]
I’ve been invited by the School to direct the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre (SEAC). This is a multidisciplinary centre that was established in 2014, seeking to foster world-leading academic and policy research with a focus on the Southeast Asian social and political landscape. Building on the School’s deep academic and historical connections with […]
Glad to see the publication of this new handbook on gentrification studies, which also includes a chapter of mine. The chapter asks the following questions: Has gentrification ‘gone global? Has it diffused from its usual suspects (e.g., London and New York City) to other non-Anglo-American cities that are more peripheral to global capitalism? What is […]