About SCG
The Social and Cultural Geographies (SCG) research group aims to support, invigorate, and develop holistic understandings of society, its spatial relations and its cultural trends. NUS Geography has long been recognized for its strength in various strands of social and cultural geography. These strands include research on migration and transnationalism, tourism, transport and digital infrastructures, cities and liveability, ageing and youth, and gender.
In our work, we endeavour to introduce Asian lenses to the field of social and cultural geography, and to broaden Western-centric interpretations of these fields. As well, we aim to generate societal impact by making our scholarship relevant to policy discussions and public debates. In so doing, we seek to offer socially attuned geographical education for graduates and undergraduates, to raise up a new generation of deep thinkers and leaders.
SCG Publications
Gillen, J., Bunnell, T., & Rigg, J. (2022)
Geographies of ruralization
Banta, V. (2023)
Unsettling Migrant Reintegration: The Serial Risk-Taking of Returning Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) to Cordillera, Philippines
Antipode, 55(1), 27–48.
Brady, D. (2021)
Between nation and state: Boundary infrastructures, communities of practice and everyday nation-ness in the Chinese rail system
Chang, T.C. (2022)
Van Gogh in the neighborhood: creative placemaking and community art in Singapore
Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 112(5), 1500-1517.
Gillen, J., Bunnell, T., & Rigg, J. (2022)
Geographies of ruralization
Dialogues in Human Geography, 12(2), 186–203.
Banta, V. (2023)
Unsettling Migrant Reintegration: The Serial Risk-Taking of Returning Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) to Cordillera, Philippines
Antipode, 55(1), 27–48.
Brady, D. (2021)
Between nation and state: Boundary infrastructures, communities of practice and everyday nation-ness in the Chinese rail system
Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 39(7), 1436–1452.
Chang, T.C. (2022)
Van Gogh in the neighborhood: creative placemaking and community art in Singapore
Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 112(5), 1500-1517.
2023-2024
Decoding Vernacular Architecture by Guiding Human Intuition with Deep Learning: A Study of Singapore Shophouse Façade in Chinatown
PI: Heng Chye Kiang, NUS Architecture; co-PIs: T.C. Chang; Xue Xuan, NUS Architecture and 3 others
2023-2025
Youth urbanism and postcolonial futures in comparative perspective
PI: Allen Xiao, NUS
2023-2029
Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women (CEVAW)
PI: Jacqui True, Monash University; Partner Investigator: Brenda Yeoh, NUS (along with a network of over 30 partner-investigators)
