Introduction
Geography faculty in this group focus their
research on the politics of regional economic development and
the ongoing processes of regional economic integration and
political change. Research attention has been explicitly paid
to such key geographical actors as firms, industries, government,
and NGOs. Several major research projects were completed or
initiated during the past three years that address critical
issues such as Asian firms competing in the global economy,
developing industrial clusters in East and Southeast Asia, and
political and economic integration at borderlands. Faculty in
the group have been actively pursuing these research projects
and have published a large body of literature in leading geography
and social science journals. With three new appointments in 2007
and the return of one faculty upon completion of her PhD in one
to two years’ time, the group aims to produce cutting-edge
research that not only significantly advances the research
frontiers in economic geography, political geography, and regional
geography, but also contributes directly to policy issues and
initiatives in the East and Southeast Asian contexts.
Key areas of focus:
• global production networks;
• politics of economic development;
• transnational corporations from Asia;
• technologies and innovations;
• political ecology and political economy of nature.
Academic staff
| Name |
Research interests |
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• Geographies of forced displacement
within/across political space
• Political ecologies and geographies of
livelihoods and environmental resource
management in the Mekong
• Politics of space and resources in the
Tonle Sap, Cambodia
• Post-Tsunami geographies of assistance,
aid and recovery in southern Thailand
• Field-based learning and pedagogic
practice |
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| Karen LAI Peak Yue |
• Geographies of money and finance
• Global city networks and financial centres
• Markets, neoliberalism and varieties of
capitalism
• Political economy and regulation of
financial services
• Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore as
financial centres
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| Harvey NEO |
• Theories and geographies of
development
• Geographies of agro-food industries
• Nature and society; Natural resource
• Biotechnology
• Ecological modernization |
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| K RAGURAMAN |
• multimodal transport
• sustainable infrastructure systems
• transport logistics |
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| Godfrey YEUNG |
• foreign direct investment, trade and
regional development
• transnational corporations’ distribution
systems and its theoretical implications
• implementation of international standards
and its impacts on manufacturing sectors
• political economy and economic
geography of WTO accession |
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| Henry YEUNG |
• transnational corporations in Southeast
Asia
• Asian firms in the global economy
• theories of international business and
production
• Chinese business networks
• geography of international business |
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| ZHANG Jun |
• technologies and innovations
• internet, information & communication
technologies
• political economy of market transition &
uneven development in China
• theories of firms & regional development |
Former faculty members
Neil Coe, Geography, University of Manchester, UK
Philip Kelly, Geography, York University, Canada
Yong-Sook Lee, Korea University
Andrew Marton, Sch of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University
of Nottingham, UK
Kris Olds, Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Bae-Gyoon Park, Geography, Seoul National University, South
Korea
Martin Perry, Management, Massey University (Wellington), New
Zealand
Jessie Poon, Geography, State University of New York Buffalo,
USA
James Sidaway, Geography, Plymouth University, UK
Distinguished visitng professors
Peter Dicken, Geography, University of Manchester, UK
Nigel Thrift, University of Warwick, UK
Trevor Barnes, University of British Columbia, Canada
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