LSE Urbanisation and Development

16/11/2021

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, with a case study of Forest City, a massive land reclamation-based real estate project in Malaysia by a Chinese developer.

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: ⬇️

(2021). Moving the mountain and greening the sea: the micropolitics of speculative green urbanism at Forest City, Iskandar Malaysia. Urban Geography. Ahead of Print.

16/11/2021

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

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…

11/11/2021

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)

LSE SEAC Southeast Asia Waters Seminar series

25/10/2021

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

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

07/10/2021

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

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

10/03/2021

This is a chance to hear directly from the President of the Asian Development Bank about their work. Next week Thursday 18-March, 10 AM GMT

SEAC UPCOMING EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

Join SEAC and President Asakawa of the Asian Development Bank to discuss 'Getting Developing Asia Back on Track' following the Covid pandemic.

Register Now! https://bit.ly/38o2KRS
Thursday 18 March, 10am GMT

Asia has successfully transitioned from a low-income agrarian region in the 1960s to a global manufacturing powerhouse today, driving growth around the world. COVID-19 is threatening to turn back the clock on some of that progress. Policy makers in the region are striving to regain and sustain growth momentum.

The Asian Development Bank stands ready to help its developing members toward the path of resilient and sustainable recovery through deeper regional cooperation, inclusive human resource development, green infrastructure, accelerated digitalization, and stronger domestic resource mobilization.

24/02/2021

This blog outlines the evolution of an urban research method in Accra Ghana, undergirded by a desire to meaningfully engage with a city unfamiliar to the researcher. It highlights the value of plac…

06/02/2021

Next Wednesday at noon!
SEAC is hosting a book launch event for 'Thinking and Working Politically in Development: Coalitions for Change in the Philippines' written by Prof John Sidel, LSE Department of Government and Jaime Faustino, The Asia Foundation.
Register your place here: https://seac-2021-cfcph.eventbrite.co.uk/