LSE Cities and Social Change in East Asia

How do place-based micropolitics shape and influence the cross-border transplantation of green urbanism ideas and practices in Asia? This paper on urban agency of Global China provides a useful insight into speculative city-making and its ecological footprints.

Read more in this new paper in the journal Urban Geography, written by Professor Hyun Bang Shin with Dr Sin Yee Koh (Monash University Malaysia) and Dr Yimin Zhao (Renmin University of China)

Read below: ⬇️

https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2021.1999725

COVID-19 upended many researchers’ plans, with in-person fieldwork no longer possible for many. Read about how Gray Brakke, part of GY438 2020-2021 cohort and a graduand from MSc Urbanisation and Development, has adapted to remote research on Vietnamese land politics. Read ⬇️

Adapting to remote research on Vietnamese land politics during the COVID-19 pandemic COVID-19 upended many researchers’ plans, with in-person fieldwork no longer possible for many. This blog outlines how I adjusted and adapted my MSc dissertation plans utilising the SEAC Dissertati…

Here is a new seminar series, Southeast Asia Waters Series, that LSE Southeast Asia Centre is hosting in 2021-22 Academic Year, convened by Professor John Sidel and Professor Hyun Bang Shin. The first seminar starts next week, 17-November https://www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/southeast-asia-waters

Full list below:

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 14:00 - 15:15
Ghosts in the Machine: Technology and Imperialism in Maritime Asia. Prof. Eric Tagliacozzo (Cornell University)

Wednesday 24 November 2021, 12:00 - 13:15
Property, profit & risk: Jakarta’s real estate industry and the ongoing water crisis. Dr. Emma Colven (SEAC Visiting Fellow, University of Oklahoma)

Wednesday 16 March 2022
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Dr. Kian Goh (UCLA)

Wednesday 23 March 2022,
The importance of humiliation: 1974, Vietnam and the South China Sea. Bill Hayton (Chatham House)

Wednesday 18 May 2022,
Expanding transboundary water governance: A mobile political ecology of sand and shifting resource-based livelihoods in Southeast Asia. Dr. Vanessa Lamb (University of Melbourne)

Wednesday 1 June 2022,
“Don’t Always Blame Climate Change”: The Political Ecology of Uneven Development and Vulnerability to Flooding in Southeast Asian Megacities. Danny Marks (Dublin City University)

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Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre has put together a number of events as part of its Southeast Asia Forum Week (https://www.lse.ac.uk/seac/seaf), which takes place this week. Below are the summaries of these events.

ENVIRONMENT AND POLITICS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: Presentations by the awardees of the SEAC Research Fund
https://www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/2021/MT-21/Environment-and-Politics-in-Southeast-Asia-Presentations-by-the-awardees-of-the-SEAC-Research-Fund

On Monday 25th Oct from 12:00 - 13.30, Dr. Tom Smith (LSE Geography) will be presenting his research on the emerging social construction of the 'haze season' in Singapore. This will be followed by Dr Omar McDoom (LSE Government) who discusses professional intermediaries as the accomplices of kleptocratic elites.

ROUNDTABLE: COMPARATIVE URBANISM FOR SOUTHEAST ASIA
https://www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/2021/MT-21/Comparative-Urbanism-for-Southeast-Asia

On Tuesday 26th Oct from 12:00 - 13:30, SEAC is hosting, in collaboration with the Urban Salon, a roundtable on comparative urbanism in Southeast Asia with international researchers working in/on Southeast Asian Cities.

THE ROLE OF PHILANTHROPY IN A NEW SOCIAL CONTRACT
https://www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2021/10/202110271100/philanthropy

On Wednesday 27th Oct from 11 am, reflecting on the impact of the late Professor Saw’s philanthropy at LSE and with the world in flux after a global pandemic, this public event chaired by LSE Director looks at how philanthropy plays an increasingly important role in society.

WORK AND LIFE IN THE COVID-19 ERA: (Preliminary) findings from the SEAC Undergraduate Research Fellowship projects
https://www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/2021/MT-21/Work-and-life-in-the-COVID-19-Era-Preliminary-findings-from-the-SEAC-Undergraduate-Research-Fellowship-projects

On Thursday 28th Oct from 12:00 - 13.30, Dr Sin Yee Koh (Monash University Malaysia) and Prof Katherine Brickell (Royal Holloway, University of London) will be giving presentations repectively on trends of lifestyle migration in Malaysia and debt discipline among Cambodian garment workers.

SOCIETY AND ECONOMY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: Presentations by LSE PhD researchers
https://www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/2021/MT-21/Society-and-Economy-in-Southeast-Asia-Presentations-by-LSE-PhD-researchers

Finally, on 29th Oct from 12:00 - 13:30, Featured researchers come from the Departments of Anthropology, Economic History, and Geography and Environment, discussing lifelong journeys of self-transformation amongst Catholic nuns in Indonesia, the financing of the Manila Trade (1668-1828), and the experience of ride-hailing drivers during the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia

LSE Southeast Asia Forum Discover the annual LSE Southeast Asia Forum (SEAF), the flagship all-day event featuring high-level panels and expert speakers from the region.

Here’s an exciting roundtable w/ Urban Studies Foundation International Fellows to discuss “With, without and/or against the state? Exploring the (re)production of space in the Global South” on 13-Oct, 1pm BST. Hosted by LSE Southeast Asia Centre.
https://www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/2021/Space-in-the-Global-South/home

Very much looking forward to our first event of the term tomorrow, Wednesday 6 Oct at 12:00 UK BST, with Dr Shanthi Thambiah, SEAC Visiting Senior Fellow.

Take a look at the event details and register here: https://bit.ly/3miTNiH

The first LSE SEAC event in autumn 2021 that looks at emo-scapes and migration governance in Indonesia and Malaysia. 6-October Wednesday, 12 noon BST

The Colliding Emo-Scapes of Indonesia and Malaysia Affecting Migration Governance: Emotional Connectivity and the Counter Narratives of Migrant Domestic Workers The Colliding Emo-Scapes of Indonesia and Malaysia Affecting Migration Governance: Emotional Connectivity and the Counter Narratives of Migrant Domestic Workers

A very interesting piece written by , a former student of mine in Urban Asia course: Hong Kong's Central Market comes back to life but conservationist takes issue with 'gentrification' - Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

Hong Kong’s Central Market comes back to life but conservationist takes issue with ‘gentrification’ Hong Kong has reopened one of its oldest wet markets after three years of construction, rehabilitation and preservation costing more than HK$500 million so far, but one leading local conservationis…

UPCOMING EVENT:
Land, Ladies, and the Law: A Case Study on Women’s Land Rights and Welfare in Southeast Asia in the Nineteenth Century

with Dr Thanyaporn Chankrajang (Chulalongkorn University), to be chaired by SEAC Associate Prof. Kent Deng (LSE Economic History Department)

Thursday 13 May, 14.00-15.30 BST
Register here for free: bit.ly/3eWSB0Q

For more information, visit the SEAC website: bit.ly/3tjAMym