This a special issue on ‘Constructing Asia’ which has recently been published in City. The special issue is edited by Eli Elinoff, Marlini Sur and Brenda SA Yeoh. Pieces in the collection take on construction sites and practices to understand contemporary political economies across a variety of Asian contexts (Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Singapore, and India).
This special issue is based on a conference entitled ‘Constructing Asia: Materiality, Capital, and Labour in the Making of an Urbanizing Landscape’ on 12-13 May 2016, jointly organized by Asian Migration and Asian Urbanisms Clusters, Asia Research Institute, and Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences’ Cities Cluster at the National University of Singapore.
