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Dr Hae Young Yun, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
ABSTRACT
Cities across Asia have been completely transformed through urban development and redevelopment processes in the past few decades. Private real estate development, climate risk mitigation strategies, and new state planning interventions, such as preservation and post-disaster reconstruction, have radically reshaped the lives of urban residents in Asia. Urban redevelopment has afforded some Asians new opportunities to acquire wealth, giving rise to new class- and consumption-based identities, providing a language for both individual and collective aspirations. On the other hand, Asian urban life is also shaped by higher inequality and new forms of risk. Capitalist development has led to massive exclusions and displacements, while ecological risk and climate disaster have posed new threats to urban lives. This panel focuses on the experiences of people amidst these processes and investigates how urban development and redevelopment have remade the lives of residents in Asian cities, and how these futures will be profoundly reshaped by the current moment.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Jordana Ramalho is a lecturer in Urban Planning for Diversity at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London. Her research focuses on gender and the political ecologies of urban development and resilience-building in the Philippines.
Dian Tri Irawaty is a PhD candidate in the Geography Department, University of California Los Angeles. She researches social movements, urban politics, and housing. Her dissertation project examines resistance to eviction in Jakarta, and grassroots movements fighting for housing justice, through strategies of insurgent planning. In the past, Dian has worked on housing justice with two prominent NGOs in Jakarta, Urban Poor Consortium and Rujak Center for Urban Studies.
Dakila Yee is Assistant Professor at the Division of Social Sciences, University of the Philippines Visayas Tacloban College. He is interested in the nexus of risk management, urban reconstruction, and contentious politics in the Philippines, specifically in the aftermath of disasters. His research has been published in Critical Asian Studies and Peace Review. His latest work was published in Post-Politics and Civil Society in Asian Cities (Routledge, 2019), edited by Sonia Lam-Knott, Creighton Connolly, and Kong Chong Ho.
Mihye Cho is Research Fellow at the Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies, Seoul National University and Assistant Professor at Sungkonghoe University. Cho is interested in the transformative processes in complex institutions. Her current research focuses on the relationship between citizen subjectivity and public policy, including cultural, urban, and aging policies. Her books include Entrepreneurial Seoulite: Culture and Subjectivity in Hongdae, Seoul (Michigan University Press, 2019) and Creative Ageing Cities (co-edited with Chong, Routlege, 2018).
REGISTRATION
Registration is closed, and instructions on how to participate in this webinar has been sent out to registered attendees. Please write to aritm@nus.edu.sg if you would like to attend the webinar.