(News Updates since January 2016)
2017
February 2017: Great to see the publication of my chapter “Envisioned by the state: Entrepreneurial urbanism and the making of Songdo City, South Korea” in this new edited volume Mega-urbanization in the Global South: Fast Cities and New Urban Utopias of the Postcolonial State, edited by Ayona Datta and Abdul Shaban. Please click here to read my blog post here and to view/download the chapter.
February 2017: Panelist, Session on the Decline of Democracy in South Korea, 2017 LSE SU Korea Future Forum, LSE, 4 February, London
January 2017: Invited talk on “Urbanisation of capital and dispossession of rights” at the Conference on China’s Stability at Risk: Economic, Social and Environmental Challenges, Centre for Asian Studies, IFRI-Paris, 26 January, Paris
2016
December 2016: Interview with an online magazine The World Weekly on Korean politics. 1 December
November 2016: A visit by a research team from the Korea Small Business Institute for an interview on commercial gentrification. 29 November
November 2016: Thompson Reuters Foundation (invitation from editor-in-chief) on planetary gentrification. 25 November
November 2016: On 14 November 2016, I am giving a talk at the Department of Arts @GoldsmithsUoL entitled “Planetary Gentrification: Comparisons with East Asia”.
November 2016: A new special issue in Korean published by Space and Society on ‘Developmentalist Urbanization and Gentrification’. My editorial can be downloaded here: “발전주의 도시화, 젠트리피케이션, 그리고 저항의 연대’. 공간과 사회 2016년 가을호에 ‘발전주의 도시화와 젠트리피케이션’ 특집 논문이 발간되었습니다. @takeoutdrawing 헌정호이기도 합니다. 엄중한 시국에도 안티-젠트리피케이션 운동을 잊지 말아야겠습니다.
November 2016: On 4th November 2016, an authors-meet-critics event in Santiago, Chile as part of COES conference. Critics include Elvin Wyly (University of British Columbia) and Javier Ruiz-Tagle (PUC). Hyun and Loretta joined the session via Skype. YouTube clip here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY8h64TuCys
November 2016: Keynote at the Speculative Urbanization in East Asia: People, Power and Politics symposium at the Asian Institute, University of Toronto. http://munkschool.utoronto.ca/ai/event/21137/
October 2016: Book manuscript workshop: City Dreams: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place, University of Texas at Austin, 29 October, Austin, Texas
October 2016: Planetary Gentrification book talk at Pro qm #Berlin, 14-Oct pro-qm.de/planetary-gent… w/ @LorettaCLees, Ernesto & @AndrejHolm
October 2016: Kosmos-Workshop: Universal Gentrification? Conceptual Challenges of Comparative Urbanism, Berlin, Humboldt- Universität zu Berlin, 13-15 October, Berlin
August 2016: TenCent China live online talk on the Olympic Games. 47000 peak-time simultaneous viewers. 20 August
August 2016: BFM 89.9 – The Business Station on Olympics, and its effects on development in emerging economies. 18 August
August 2016: LSE-PKU Summer School teaching, Speculative Urbanisation in Asia
July 2016: New special issue from Urban Geography 37(8) Latin American #Gentrifications http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rurb20/37/8
June 2016: Keynote, Utopian Urban Futures: Histories, Imaginations, Possibilities Conference, University of Leeds, 27-28 June, Leeds
June 2016: Invited talk on “Speculative urbanisation, gentrification and the right to the city” at the Symposium on City of Hope, The Seoul Institute, 23-24 June, Seoul
June 2016: Invited talk on “Envisioned by the state: Entrepreneurial urbanism and the making of Songdo City, South Korea” at the Conference on Global Cities and Urban Studies: Korea in Comparative Perspective, Central European University, 16-18 June, Budapest
June 2016: Invited talk on “Reconceptualising the urban: China’s urbanisation and its implications for global urban studies on Gentrification” at the Workshop: From Chicago to Shenzhen: The City One Hundred Years On, City University of Hong Kong, 6-7 June, Hong Kong
May 2016: Invited talk on “Urban accumulation and the ‘culture of property’: Beyond the authoritarian nature of the state in China” at the Workshop: Decoding the Urban – Engaging with Current Debates on Urban Processes in India and China. CEIAS-CNRS, EHESS, 11-12 May, Paris
May 2016: TBS eFM 101.3 MHz This Morning (Live) interview on Efforts to prevent gentrification. 1 June
Seongdong District Mayor (Seoul) on Anti-Gentrification. 16 May
May 2016: Faculty workshop on Changing values/ideas/ethics in China, Department of Anthropology, LSE, 10 May, London
March 2016: Keynote, “What is the problem with gentrification in South Korea?” at the National Assembly Forum on Addressing Gentrification Problems, Takeout Drawing and ‘Eul-committee’ at The Minjoo Party of Korea, 11 March, Seoul
March 2016: Pleased to see the printed version of a new special issue from Alternative Sud, a quarterly publication by CETRI based in Belgium. The issue includes a reprinted paper of mine originally published in City. More details here.
March 2016: Book launch event for Planetary Gentrification at LSE on 16 March. More details here.
February 2016: On 26 February 2016, I am giving an invited talk at the Centre of Korean Studies, SOAS on the topic of Developmental Urbanisation and the Genealogy of Urban Rights in South Korea. Click here for more information.
February 2016: Panelist, the 2nd Hans Crescent symposium on Beyond the Smart City: Towards a Democratic Alternative, 20 February, London
February 2016: Panelist, Session on “Comparative Regional Issues in the Dynamics of Geopolitics and Migration”, African Leadership Centre’s 2016 MSc Student Conference on Leadership: Migration and Geopolitics in Africa, Asia and Latin America, King’s College London, 18 February, London
February 2016: #BangkokEdge, an exciting festival in Bangkok, 13-14 Feb 2016 bangkokedge.com/#!talks/cizb I’m also to give talks on #NewAsia and #gentrification
January 2016: New special issue from Urban Studies 53(3) Locating #Gentrification in the Global East http://usj.sagepub.com/content/53/3.toc @LorettaCLees @LSEGeography
January 2016: Planetary Gentrification, a co-authored monograph (with Loretta Lees at the University of Leicester and Ernesto López-Morales at the University of Chile), is out now from Polity Press. This accompanies the earlier published edited volume Global Gentrifications: Uneven Development and Displacement (Policy Press, 2015).