Ecology/biogeography/human-nature

• 2022-2027, Climate Governance of Nature-based Carbon Sinks in Southeast Asia, Social Science Research Thematic Grant, Ministry of Education (PI: David Taylor, NUS; co-PI: Koh Lian Pin, NUS; co-PI: Miles Kenney-Lazar, NUS)

Geographies of development

• 2023-2025, Urban informality from the global East: Comparing comparisons in Taipei and Singapore. (PI: Shaun Teo, NUS)
• 2020-2023, The Financialization of Agrarian Landscapes in Cambodia (PI: W. Nathan Green, NUS)

Geopolitics

• 2023-2026, The ‘Digital Silk Road’ in Post-Pandemic ASEAN: Globalisation, Geopolitics and Development (PI: Woon Chih Yuan, NUS)
• 2022-2026, Research Partnership on Asian Infrastructures, Max Weber Foundation (co-PI: James Sidaway, NUS; co-PI: Tim Bunnell, ARI/NUS; Franz Waldenberger, Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien (DIJ))
• 2017-2022, Research Group on Borders, Mobility and New Infrastructures, Max Weber Foundation (PI: James Sidaway) Webpage

Global production networks

• 2021-2024, Innovation, production networks of FCEVs and its regional dynamics in East Asia (PI: Godfrey Yeung, NUS)
• 2014-2018,  Global Production Networks Centre at NUS (GPN@NUS) (Co-PIs: Henry Yeung, NUS; Neil Coe, NUS; Godfrey Yeung, NUS; Karen Lai, Durham University) Webpage

Kenney-Lazar, Miles

• Kenney-Lazar, M., D. Suhardiman, G. Hunt. 2022. The Spatial Politics of Land Policy Reform in Myanmar and Laos. The Journal of Peasant Studies. Early online view. DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2054700
• Kenney-Lazar, M. 2021. Turning Land into Capital? Expansions and Extractions of Value in Laos. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. Early online view. DOI: 10.1177/0308518X211063493
• Kenney-Lazar, M. 2020. Relations of Sovereignty: The Uneven Production of Transnational Plantation Territories in Laos. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 45(2): 331-344.
• Kenney-Lazar, M. D. Suhardiman, and M.B. Dwyer. 2019. State Spaces of Resistance: Industrial Tree Plantations and the Struggle for Land in Laos. Antipode, 50(5): 1290–1310.
• Kenney-Lazar, M. 2018. Governing Dispossession: Relational Land Grabbing in Laos. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 108(3): 679–694.

Green, W. Nathan

• Green, W. Nathan. (2022). Financing Agrarian Change: Geographies of Credit and Debt in the Global South. Progress in Human Geography 6(3), 849-869. DOI: 10.1177/03091325221083211.
• Green, W. Nathan and Jennifer Estes. (2022). Translocal Precarity: Labor and Social Reproduction in Cambodia. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 112(6), 1726-1740. DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2021.2015280.
• Green, W. Nathan. (2019). From Rice Fields to Financial Assets: Valuing Land for Microfinance in Cambodia.” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 44(4), 749-762. DOI: 10.1111/tran.12310.

Grundy-Warr, Carl

• Grundy-Warr, C. (2022) ‘COVID-19 Geopolitics in Southeast Asia: Regional and National Health (in)Securities in Times of Pandemic.’ In: Brunn, S.D., Gilbreath, D. (eds) COVID-19 and a World of Ad Hoc Geographies. Springer, Cham., 229-247, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94350-9_15
• Lin, Shaun and Grundy-Warr, Carl (2020) ‘Navigating Sino-Thai ‘rocky’ bilateral ties: The geopolitics of riverine trade in the Greater Mekong Subregion’, ECP: Politics and Space, 38 (5): 826-832. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654420911410e
• Grundy-Warr, Carl and Lin, Shaun (2020) ‘COVID-19 geopolitics: Silence and erasure in Cambodia and Myanmar in times of pandemic,’ Eurasian Geography and Economics, 61(4–5), 493–510.
• Grundy-Warr, Carl and Lin, Shaun (2020) ‘The unseen transboundary commons that matter for Cambodia’s inland fisheries: Changing sediment flows in the Mekong hydrological flood pulse’, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 62, 2: 249-265
• Grundy-Warr, Carl (2017) ‘B/ordering nature and biophysical geopolitics. A response to Hirsch’, Political Geography, 58: 131-135.

Sidaway, James D.

• Mallin, F. & Sidaway, J. D. (2023). Critical geoeconomics: A genealogy of writing politics, economy and space. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, DOI: 10.1111/tran.12600
• Sidaway, J. D. (2022). Beyond the decolonial: Critical Muslim geographies, Dialogues in Human Geography, DOI: 10.1177/20438206221121651
• Paasche, T. F. & Sidaway, J. D. (2021). Transecting Securityscapes: dispatches from Cambodia, Iraq, and Mozambique. University of Georgia Press.
• Lai, K. P. Y., Lin, S. and Sidaway, J. D. (2020). Financing the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): Research agendas beyond the “debt-trap” discourse, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 61 2 109-124, DOI: 10.1080/15387216.2020.1726787
• Sidaway, J. D. & Woon, C. Y. (2017) Chinese narratives on “One Belt, One Road” (一带一) in geopolitical and imperial contexts, The Professional Geographer 69(4), 591-603 DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2017.1288576

Teo, Shaun

• Teo, S. S. K. (2023). Socially engaged municipal statecraft in urban China? The Shenzhen Biennale as situated planning experiment. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. DOI:10.1111/1468-2427.13174
• Teo, S. S. K., Chung, C. K. L., & Wang, Z. (2023). Theorising with urban China: Methodological and tactical experiments for a more global urban studies. Dialogues in Human Geography, DOI: 10.1177/20438206231156656

Woon Chih Yuan

• Woon, C.Y. (2014). Precarious Geopolitics and the Possibilities of Nonviolence, Progress in Human Geography, 38(5): 654-670. DOI: 10.1177/0309132513501403
• Sidaway, J. and Woon, C.Y. (2017). Chinese Narratives on ‘One Belt, One Road’ in Geopolitical and Imperial Contexts. The Professional Geographer, 69(4): 591-603. DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2017.1288576
• Woon, C.Y. (2018). China’s Contingencies: Critical Geopolitics, Chinese Exceptionalism and the Uses of History. Geopolitics, 23(1): 67-95. DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2017.1302429
• Woon, C.Y. (2020). Framing the ‘Polar Silk Road’: Critical Geopolitics, Chinese Scholars and the (Re)Positionings of China’s Arctic Interests. Political Geography, 78: 102141. DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.102141
• McConnell, F. and Woon, C.Y. (2023). Mapping Chinese Diplomacy: Relational Contradictions and Spatial Tensions. Geopolitics, 28(2): 593-618. DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2021.1966417

Yeung, Godfrey

• Yeung, G. and Liu, Y. (2023). Hybrid Governance of Joint Ventures in Transitional Economies: The case of Guangzhou Automobile Group in China. Review of International Political Economy, 30 (3), 1177-1201. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2022.2062033
• Yeung, G. (2019). ‘Made in China 2025’: The Development of a New Energy Vehicle Industry in China. Area Development and Policy, 4(1), 39-59. https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2018.1505433
• Yeung, G., He, C-f. and Zhang, P. (2017). Rural Banking in China: Geographically Accessible but still Financially Excluded?. Regional Studies, 51(2), 297-312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2015.1100283

Yeung, Henry Wai-Chung

• Yeung, H.W.C. (2024). Theory and Explanation in Geography, RGS-IBG Book Series, Chichester: Wiley.
• Yeung, H.W.C. (2022). Interconnected Worlds: Global Electronics and Production Networks in East Asia, Innovation and Technology in the World Economy Series, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=33228
• Yeung, H.W.C. (2016). Strategic Coupling: East Asian Industrial Transformation in the New Global Economy, Cornell Studies in Political Economy Series, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. https://www.amazon.com/Strategic-Coupling-Industrial-Transformation-Political/dp/1501702564
• Coe, Neil M. and Yeung, H.W.C. (2015). Global Production Networks: Theorizing Economic Development in an Interconnected World, Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://www.amazon.com/Global-Production-Networks-Development-Interconnected/dp/0198703910

Last updated on 15 August 2023

Visiting Scholars Scheme / Isaac Manasseh Meyer Fellows (IMMF)

2016
Stephanie Barrientos, University of Manchester (Jan to April 2016)

2015
Neil Brenner, Harvard University (19 Jan to 19 May 2015)
James Faulconbridge, University of Lancaster (22 Feb to 3 Mar 2015)

2014
Merje Kuus, University of British Columbia (6 to 16 Oct 2014)

2012
Jim Glassman, University of British Columbia,  (10 to 30 Mar 2012)
Dariusz Wojcik, University of Oxford, (19 Nov to 8 Dec 2012)

2011
Jamie Peck, University of British Columbia (2 Jan to 8 May 2011)

2009
Allen Scott, University of California Los Angeles (31 Jul to 8 Aug 2009)
Eric Sheppard, University of Minnesota (1 Feb to 30 May 2009)

2008
Stuart Elden, University of Durham (7 Sep to 6 Dec 2008)
Nicholas Phelps, University of London (2 to 25 Sep 2008)