Vision
To take forward cutting-edge theoretical debates in Geography and adjacent social science disciplines on the basis of our detailed empirical work, our evolving theoritical curiosity, our well-placed position in Asia, and our strong international outlook and reach.
Research Strategies
- building shared reseach programmes: to generate synergy, joint projects, shared ideas and to secure external research funding.
- publishing high impact work in the best scholarly venues and actively participating in the editorial process of those venues;
- sustaining and expanding our presence in international conferences and other schlarly activities;
- working with the SJTG to enhance the reach and influence of work related to our core interests;
- attracting and recruiting the best possible faculty members, post-doctoral fellows, academic visitors and graduate students.
Teaching Strategies
- ensuring the continuous offering of both GE2202 (Economy and Space) and GE2222 (Politics and Space) as the broad foundational introduction to economic and political geography;
- critically engaging our undergraduate students in cuting-edge debates via our ongoing research programmes;
- explicit involvement in the advisory of other group member's graduate students;
- providing excelleng training platforms for aspiring political/economic geographers.
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;
• geographies of power.
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 |
• Agro-food industries
• Nature and society issues
• Eco-city development |
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| K RAGURAMAN |
• Multimodal transport
• Sustainable infrastructure systems
• Transport logistics |
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| Simon SPRINGER |
• Geographies of violence and nonviolence
• Neoliberalization, governmentality, and
bio/necropolitics
• Imaginative geographies, Orientalism,
and othering
• Radical democracy, resistance, and
emancipatory politics
• Primitive accumulation, accumulation by
disposession, regimes of accumulation
• Post-transitional political economy of
Cambodia |
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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
• Financial geographies |
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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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| Jun ZHANG |
• 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 visiting professors
Peter Dicken, Geography, University of Manchester, UK
Nigel Thrift, University of Warwick, UK
Trevor Barnes, University of British Columbia, Canada
Eric Sheppard, University of Minnesota |
