Hyun Bang Shin
@hyunshin.bsky.social
Professor at the London School of Economics (LSE). Head of the Department of Geography & Environment. #UrbanPoliticalEconomy #Gentrification #Housing #SpeculativeUrbanisation #AsianUrbanisms #Megaevents #Megaprojects Personal web: https://urbancommune.net
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Hyun Bang Shin
@hyunshin.bsky.social
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The Academy of Social Sciences welcomes 64 leading social scientists to its Fellowship – Academy of Social Sciences
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Very much honoured to have been elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences acss.org.uk/news/the-aca...
This is happening this week on 6-Nov at 4 pm at LSE, a book launch seminar for People-led Development in Hanoi (Routledge, 2026). For more details, see below 👇
New LSE Geography seminar with the Urban Salon on 6-Nov, 4pm, featuring Hoai Anh Tran (Malmö University) presenting her new book, "People-led Development" in Hanoi, w/ discussants, Hanh-An Trinh and @maranogueira.bsky.social. Event details and registration on this page: www.lse.ac.uk/events/peopl...
November 2, 2025 at 10:26 AM
This is happening this week on 6-Nov at 4 pm at LSE, a book launch seminar for People-led Development in Hanoi (Routledge, 2026). For more details, see below 👇
A compulsory mix - coffee, water, fruit and notebook - for attending academic workshops. Enjoying the two-day workshop on “Creative methods in uncertainty times” in Basel organised by @julieren.bsky.social and her team
October 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
A compulsory mix - coffee, water, fruit and notebook - for attending academic workshops. Enjoying the two-day workshop on “Creative methods in uncertainty times” in Basel organised by @julieren.bsky.social and her team
New LSE Geography seminar with the Urban Salon on 6-Nov, 4pm, featuring Hoai Anh Tran (Malmö University) presenting her new book, "People-led Development" in Hanoi, w/ discussants, Hanh-An Trinh and @maranogueira.bsky.social. Event details and registration on this page: www.lse.ac.uk/events/peopl...
October 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
New LSE Geography seminar with the Urban Salon on 6-Nov, 4pm, featuring Hoai Anh Tran (Malmö University) presenting her new book, "People-led Development" in Hanoi, w/ discussants, Hanh-An Trinh and @maranogueira.bsky.social. Event details and registration on this page: www.lse.ac.uk/events/peopl...
New vacancy alert!
The Department of Geography and Environment at LSE, in partnership with the LSE Global School of Sustainability, is inviting applications for a new position, Assistant Professor in Biodiversity Economics. Deadline: 26-10-2025. More info here: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
The Department of Geography and Environment at LSE, in partnership with the LSE Global School of Sustainability, is inviting applications for a new position, Assistant Professor in Biodiversity Economics. Deadline: 26-10-2025. More info here: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
October 15, 2025 at 9:32 AM
New vacancy alert!
The Department of Geography and Environment at LSE, in partnership with the LSE Global School of Sustainability, is inviting applications for a new position, Assistant Professor in Biodiversity Economics. Deadline: 26-10-2025. More info here: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
The Department of Geography and Environment at LSE, in partnership with the LSE Global School of Sustainability, is inviting applications for a new position, Assistant Professor in Biodiversity Economics. Deadline: 26-10-2025. More info here: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
New publication in @antipodeonline.bsky.social!
“Working-in-Commons in the Middle of Precarity” revisits 1970s Nangok, Seoul, and explores poor women’s everyday commoning in 1970s Nangok, Seoul, conveying a story of solidarity, survival & imagination
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
“Working-in-Commons in the Middle of Precarity” revisits 1970s Nangok, Seoul, and explores poor women’s everyday commoning in 1970s Nangok, Seoul, conveying a story of solidarity, survival & imagination
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Working‐in‐Commons in the Middle of Precarity: The Legacy of the Urban Commons Movement of South Korea in the 1970s
This article explores the endogenous characteristics of commons within the frameworks of precarity and commons through the urban commons movement in 1970s South Korea. During Korea's compressed capit....
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October 14, 2025 at 11:46 AM
New publication in @antipodeonline.bsky.social!
“Working-in-Commons in the Middle of Precarity” revisits 1970s Nangok, Seoul, and explores poor women’s everyday commoning in 1970s Nangok, Seoul, conveying a story of solidarity, survival & imagination
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
“Working-in-Commons in the Middle of Precarity” revisits 1970s Nangok, Seoul, and explores poor women’s everyday commoning in 1970s Nangok, Seoul, conveying a story of solidarity, survival & imagination
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
LSE Geography & Environment is recruiting: Assistant Professor and Associate Professor in Urban Planning.
Expertise in sustainable cities, planning regulation, or planning law is especially welcome.
For more info, pls visit here 👉 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
#LSE #UrbanPlanning #AcademicJobs
Expertise in sustainable cities, planning regulation, or planning law is especially welcome.
For more info, pls visit here 👉 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
#LSE #UrbanPlanning #AcademicJobs
October 10, 2025 at 8:29 AM
LSE Geography & Environment is recruiting: Assistant Professor and Associate Professor in Urban Planning.
Expertise in sustainable cities, planning regulation, or planning law is especially welcome.
For more info, pls visit here 👉 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
#LSE #UrbanPlanning #AcademicJobs
Expertise in sustainable cities, planning regulation, or planning law is especially welcome.
For more info, pls visit here 👉 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
#LSE #UrbanPlanning #AcademicJobs
Welcome to 400+ new students joining LSE Geography & Environment! 🎉 We began the year with our Welcome Induction & a staff start-of-year meeting. Looking forward to an inspiring year ahead 🌍✨
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#LSEGeography #Community #partoflse
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#LSEGeography #Community #partoflse
September 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Welcome to 400+ new students joining LSE Geography & Environment! 🎉 We began the year with our Welcome Induction & a staff start-of-year meeting. Looking forward to an inspiring year ahead 🌍✨
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#LSEGeography #Community #partoflse
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#LSEGeography #Community #partoflse
Live now in Boston hosted by @buoncities.bsky.social. It was a pleasure to discuss this talk by Dr Youjeong Oh on "Development, Dispossession, and Desires in Jeju" today, 18 Sep. 2025. Link to the event here: www.bu.edu/ioc/events/e...
September 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Live now in Boston hosted by @buoncities.bsky.social. It was a pleasure to discuss this talk by Dr Youjeong Oh on "Development, Dispossession, and Desires in Jeju" today, 18 Sep. 2025. Link to the event here: www.bu.edu/ioc/events/e...
🚨 Just published in Urban Studies, Vol 62, Issue 10!
Together with Yi Jin, I theorise entrepreneurial neo-managerialism in China’s urban governance.
In Luzhou’s shantytown redevelopment, we observe how the local state both redistributes and accumulates—balancing legitimacy and growth.
Together with Yi Jin, I theorise entrepreneurial neo-managerialism in China’s urban governance.
In Luzhou’s shantytown redevelopment, we observe how the local state both redistributes and accumulates—balancing legitimacy and growth.
Revisiting urban governance in China: The manifestation of entrepreneurial neo-managerialism in shantytown redevelopment in Luzhou - Yi Jin, Hyun Bang Shin, 2025
Recently, China’s central government initiated a series of social policies to alleviate social disparities, providing opportunities to revisit state entrepreneu...
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July 21, 2025 at 7:49 AM
🚨 Just published in Urban Studies, Vol 62, Issue 10!
Together with Yi Jin, I theorise entrepreneurial neo-managerialism in China’s urban governance.
In Luzhou’s shantytown redevelopment, we observe how the local state both redistributes and accumulates—balancing legitimacy and growth.
Together with Yi Jin, I theorise entrepreneurial neo-managerialism in China’s urban governance.
In Luzhou’s shantytown redevelopment, we observe how the local state both redistributes and accumulates—balancing legitimacy and growth.
Call for Trustees! @urbanstudiesfoundation.org is recruiting new Trustees to join its Board and play a crucial role in guiding the Foundation's grant-making & advancing urban studies worldwide. Link: www.urbanstudiesfoundation.org/2025/06/13/t... As a former trustee (2016-23), highly recommended!
July 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Call for Trustees! @urbanstudiesfoundation.org is recruiting new Trustees to join its Board and play a crucial role in guiding the Foundation's grant-making & advancing urban studies worldwide. Link: www.urbanstudiesfoundation.org/2025/06/13/t... As a former trustee (2016-23), highly recommended!
A joyful reunion with @LSEGeography alumni from 30+ years ago!
Their bond with LSE and our department remains strong—what a delight to see.
Grateful to President Larry Kramer for joining us too.
#LSEGeography #LSEAlumni #partoflse
Their bond with LSE and our department remains strong—what a delight to see.
Grateful to President Larry Kramer for joining us too.
#LSEGeography #LSEAlumni #partoflse
June 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
A joyful reunion with @LSEGeography alumni from 30+ years ago!
Their bond with LSE and our department remains strong—what a delight to see.
Grateful to President Larry Kramer for joining us too.
#LSEGeography #LSEAlumni #partoflse
Their bond with LSE and our department remains strong—what a delight to see.
Grateful to President Larry Kramer for joining us too.
#LSEGeography #LSEAlumni #partoflse
📅 Join me and @lorettaclees.bsky.social for her #urbansalon talk on Developing an Anti-Displacement Tool for the City of Louisville, Kentucky, in the US on 20 June, Friday, 4pm (UK time)
📍In person registration: zurl.co/6HqTS
📍 online registration: zurl.co/Hbs5b
📍In person registration: zurl.co/6HqTS
📍 online registration: zurl.co/Hbs5b
June 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
📅 Join me and @lorettaclees.bsky.social for her #urbansalon talk on Developing an Anti-Displacement Tool for the City of Louisville, Kentucky, in the US on 20 June, Friday, 4pm (UK time)
📍In person registration: zurl.co/6HqTS
📍 online registration: zurl.co/Hbs5b
📍In person registration: zurl.co/6HqTS
📍 online registration: zurl.co/Hbs5b
The Urbanising Dynamics of Global China, a book edition
Good to see the release of this copy, a republication edition of our journal special issue with the same title: w/ Yimin Zhao and Sin Yee Koh. It was a pleasant surprise when Taylor & Francis reached out in mid-November 2024 with a proposal…
Good to see the release of this copy, a republication edition of our journal special issue with the same title: w/ Yimin Zhao and Sin Yee Koh. It was a pleasant surprise when Taylor & Francis reached out in mid-November 2024 with a proposal…
The Urbanising Dynamics of Global China, a book edition
Good to see the release of this copy, a republication edition of our journal special issue with the same title: w/ Yimin Zhao and Sin Yee Koh. It was a pleasant surprise when Taylor & Francis reached out in mid-November 2024 with a proposal to publish the above journal special issue papers as an edited volume. They had an editorial team that worked on the "Routledge Special Issues as Books programme", which seems to be actively looking for promising journal special issues that can be turned into an edited volume for wider audience reach.
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May 31, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The Urbanising Dynamics of Global China, a book edition
Good to see the release of this copy, a republication edition of our journal special issue with the same title: w/ Yimin Zhao and Sin Yee Koh. It was a pleasant surprise when Taylor & Francis reached out in mid-November 2024 with a proposal…
Good to see the release of this copy, a republication edition of our journal special issue with the same title: w/ Yimin Zhao and Sin Yee Koh. It was a pleasant surprise when Taylor & Francis reached out in mid-November 2024 with a proposal…
Happening on 27-May. International Symposium on 70 Years since the #Bandung Conference, which I'm co-organising w/ Prof Bingchun Meng @lsemedia.bsky.social as part of LSE Southeast Asia Centre Inter-Asia Seminar Series. Fantastic speaker line-up and hybrid. Details: www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/...
International Symposium on 70 Years Since the Bandung Conference
Event exploring the legacies of the 1995 Bandung Conference, third-world internationalism
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May 24, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Happening on 27-May. International Symposium on 70 Years since the #Bandung Conference, which I'm co-organising w/ Prof Bingchun Meng @lsemedia.bsky.social as part of LSE Southeast Asia Centre Inter-Asia Seminar Series. Fantastic speaker line-up and hybrid. Details: www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/...
A talk not to miss with @lorettaclees.bsky.social (Director of @buoncities.bsky.social and Visiting Professor, LSE Department of Geography and Environment), discussing her latest work on anti-displacement toolkit. On 20-June, 4pm, hybrid. Part of the Urban Salon. Link: www.lse.ac.uk/geography-an...
May 24, 2025 at 9:58 AM
A talk not to miss with @lorettaclees.bsky.social (Director of @buoncities.bsky.social and Visiting Professor, LSE Department of Geography and Environment), discussing her latest work on anti-displacement toolkit. On 20-June, 4pm, hybrid. Part of the Urban Salon. Link: www.lse.ac.uk/geography-an...
UK REF recently published a list of research fellowships demonstrating research independence for the REF 2029 volume measure, and the list seems very useful for any early/mid-career scholar who's seeking a research fellowship. Link here: 2029.ref.ac.uk/publication/...
Research Fellowships demonstrating research independence for REF 2029 volume measure – REF 2029icon-printer
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May 18, 2025 at 10:26 AM
UK REF recently published a list of research fellowships demonstrating research independence for the REF 2029 volume measure, and the list seems very useful for any early/mid-career scholar who's seeking a research fellowship. Link here: 2029.ref.ac.uk/publication/...
In memory and honour of the late C.P.Pow, previously at NUS Geography and a former trustee of the Urban Studies Foundation. I was fortunate to have worked with him and remember him fondly. Really happy to see the release of this collection. May he rest in peace.
📚 C.P. Pow: selected essays—new USF book release! 📚
The USF is proud to publish a collection of ten key papers by the late C.P. Pow—celebrating his contributions to urban studies and his role as a former USF Trustee.
🔗 Download the book here: www.urbanstudiesfoundation.org/2025/04/15/c...
The USF is proud to publish a collection of ten key papers by the late C.P. Pow—celebrating his contributions to urban studies and his role as a former USF Trustee.
🔗 Download the book here: www.urbanstudiesfoundation.org/2025/04/15/c...
April 18, 2025 at 7:09 AM
In memory and honour of the late C.P.Pow, previously at NUS Geography and a former trustee of the Urban Studies Foundation. I was fortunate to have worked with him and remember him fondly. Really happy to see the release of this collection. May he rest in peace.
This was one of the highly appreciated schemes I enjoyed overseeing during my USF trustee time. Highly recommended for urban scholars from the global South. Interested prospective applicants are welcome to approach as well.
📣 USF International Fellowships 2025 - apply now!
This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South.
Read more & apply here: urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/inte...
Deadline 16th July 2025
This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South.
Read more & apply here: urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/inte...
Deadline 16th July 2025
April 16, 2025 at 9:36 AM
This was one of the highly appreciated schemes I enjoyed overseeing during my USF trustee time. Highly recommended for urban scholars from the global South. Interested prospective applicants are welcome to approach as well.
Very much honoured to have been elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences acss.org.uk/news/the-aca...
The Academy of Social Sciences welcomes 64 leading social scientists to its Fellowship – Academy of Social Sciences
acss.org.uk
April 1, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Very much honoured to have been elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences acss.org.uk/news/the-aca...
Come and work with us @LSEGeography - Assistant Professor in Urban Environmental Geography. Further details here: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Redirect.asp... Deadline: 6 April 2025
March 27, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Come and work with us @LSEGeography - Assistant Professor in Urban Environmental Geography. Further details here: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Redirect.asp... Deadline: 6 April 2025
Happening right now and a full house! Happy and honoured to be invited as a discussant to discuss Governing Urban Development in China by Fulong Wu and Fangzhu Zhang
March 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Happening right now and a full house! Happy and honoured to be invited as a discussant to discuss Governing Urban Development in China by Fulong Wu and Fangzhu Zhang
Looking forward to the launch of this book, 'Governing Urban Development in China: Critical Urban Studies', authored by Fulong Wu and Fangzhu Zhang at the Bartlett School of Planning, UCL on 19 March, 5pmz. More info here: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pla...
March 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Looking forward to the launch of this book, 'Governing Urban Development in China: Critical Urban Studies', authored by Fulong Wu and Fangzhu Zhang at the Bartlett School of Planning, UCL on 19 March, 5pmz. More info here: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pla...
🏆 We're 2nd in the world for Geography, again(!) in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025.
What an achievement that reflects the dedication, innovation and excellence of our research and education action!
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What an achievement that reflects the dedication, innovation and excellence of our research and education action!
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March 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
🏆 We're 2nd in the world for Geography, again(!) in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025.
What an achievement that reflects the dedication, innovation and excellence of our research and education action!
zurl.co/DlpBZ
What an achievement that reflects the dedication, innovation and excellence of our research and education action!
zurl.co/DlpBZ
I am excited to share that in 2025, the Department of Geography and Environment, LSE, will mark the 130th anniversary of LSE and of Geography being taught at LSE.
You can learn more about our history and how to get involved here: www.lse.ac.uk/geography-an...
#partofLSE #GY130years
You can learn more about our history and how to get involved here: www.lse.ac.uk/geography-an...
#partofLSE #GY130years
Geography at 130
Celebrating 130 years of Geography at LSE.
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March 6, 2025 at 11:13 AM
I am excited to share that in 2025, the Department of Geography and Environment, LSE, will mark the 130th anniversary of LSE and of Geography being taught at LSE.
You can learn more about our history and how to get involved here: www.lse.ac.uk/geography-an...
#partofLSE #GY130years
You can learn more about our history and how to get involved here: www.lse.ac.uk/geography-an...
#partofLSE #GY130years
From the secrets of the universe to socio-economic impact: the power of big science, a @LSEGeography public lecture by MarkThomson, Director-General Designate of CERN, and responded by Riccardo Crescenzi & Sarah Sharples. Chaired by LSE President, Larry Kramer www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...
March 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
From the secrets of the universe to socio-economic impact: the power of big science, a @LSEGeography public lecture by MarkThomson, Director-General Designate of CERN, and responded by Riccardo Crescenzi & Sarah Sharples. Chaired by LSE President, Larry Kramer www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...