Professor Hyun Bang Shin at the London School of Economics

Urban Salon seminar: Why Detroit Matters at LSE, 9-Jan-2019

January 5, 2019April 22, 2025

The first #UrbanSalon (http://theurbansalon.com) event in 2019 is to take place on 09 January 2019, Wed 4pm, featuring Loretta Lees (University of Leicester), Phil Hubbard (King’s College London) and Brian Doucet (University of Waterloo) to discuss Why #Detroit Matters. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/why-detroit-matters-decline-renewal-and-hope-in-a-divided-city-tickets-53947445261 Why Detroit Matters: Decline, Renewal and Hope in a Divided City Hosted by the […]

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My paper in the new volume titled Social Justice and the City (ed. Nik Heynen)

January 5, 2019April 22, 2025

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 […]

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CFP: RC21 Stream (S6) on The Urban Spectre of ‘Global China’ and Critical Reflections on its Spatiality

December 20, 2018April 22, 2025

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 […]

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Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre

December 17, 2018April 22, 2025

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 […]

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Invited lecture at the University of Oslo

November 3, 2018April 22, 2025

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 […]

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Directorship of LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre

August 1, 2018April 22, 2025

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 […]

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New chapter, “Beyond Anglo-American gentrification theory”

June 29, 2018April 22, 2025

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 […]

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Inter-Korea summit meeting and the peace process in the Korean peninsula #KoreaSummit #USNorthKorea

June 11, 2018April 22, 2025

Upon the request of the LSE media team, I had a chance to elaborate on my own thoughts regarding the recent Inter-Korea summit meeting on 27 April, and also the role of the US. The series of videos were released on 30 April, and what I said then still seems to be relevant to the […]

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Short essay: The Geographies of Gentrification in East Asia, contributed to the IIAS Newsletter Vol.79, 2018

May 1, 2018April 22, 2025

The International Institute for Asian Studies based in Leiden, the Netherlands, publishes The Newsletter three times a year to report on current affairs in Asia and connect academics with wider audience. The news from Northeast Asia in the Spring 2018 edition covers gentrification in East Asian cities, and features four pieces as below. My piece provided an […]

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New chapter: “Studying global gentrifications”

April 30, 2018April 22, 2025

Happy to see the publication of my chapter, “Studying Global Gentrifications”, invited for inclusion in this new volume edited by John Harrison and Michael Hoyler. Click here to download the Word version of the chapter This chapter builds on my ongoing enquiries into the planetary rise of gentrification and variegated geographies of gentrification (and therefore, […]

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