1st Edition
The Urbanising Dynamics of Global China Speculation, Articulation, and Translation in Global Capitalism
The urbanising dynamics of global China: Speculation, articulation, and translation in global capitalism - An introduction
Hyun Bang Shin, Yimin Zhao and Sin Yee Koh
1. Moving the mountain and greening the sea: The micropolitics of speculative green urbanism at Forest City, Iskandar Malaysia
Sin Yee Koh, Yimin Zhao and Hyun Bang Shin
2. Importing export zones: Processes and impacts of replicating a Chinese model of urbanisation in rural south India
Charlotte Goodburn and Jan Knoerich
3. Hybrid entrepreneurial urban governance in post-colonial Ghana: An analysis of Chinese funding of the Kotokuraba market project in Cape Coast
Lewis Abedi Asante and Ilse Helbrecht
4. Continental metropolitanization: Chongqing and the urban origins of China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Nick R. Smith
5. China at large, Chinas for comparative conversation: A commentary on “Urbanising dynamics of global China”
Tim Bunnell
Biography
Hyun Bang Shin is Professor of Geography and Urban Studies and Head of the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). His research centres on the critical analysis of the political economy of urbanisation with particular attention to Asian cities.
Yimin Zhao is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Durham University. His research mainly explores urban peripheries and the state in China and Asia through the analytical lenses of language, materiality and everyday life.
Sin Yee Koh is Senior Assistant Professor at the Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Monash University Malaysia. Her work uses the lens of migration and mobility to understand the circulations of people, capital and aspirations in and through cities.
