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My book on Manila and Laguna Lake won an award 😭

[1/3] Our latest issue is out: Science and Technology Studies in the Philippines (March 2023)

Kristian Saguin presenting his book today at UvA Amsterdam

New book! 'Waste and the City: The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife'. Short blog here on what the book is about (published with Verso & freely available here durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1728967): cityfragment.wordpress.com/2023/09/18/was… A big thank you to all who helped make this happen!

Apply now for the IJURR Foundation 2024 Writing up grants! For PhD students from low or middle income countries who are writing up their final thesis. Applications close 31st January 2024. More details on our website: tinyurl.com/dwz79uxn

It’s arrived! New chapters on “More-than-Physical Geographies”, “Postcolonial and Decolonial, and Anti-colonial Geographies”, and Black Geographies”. Other chapters thoroughly updated too.

We are excited to announce our joint #UrbanStudies #SummerSchool Beyond Inhabitation & Urban Transitions Hub Leading keynotes | No fees | 15 postdoc participants | Writing workshops Turin (23-26th Sept 2024) & Lisbon (2-6th June 2025) Info & applications: beyondinhabitation.org/urbanschool/

Many thanks to the AAS and the SEAC for this great honor! I think this is the first time in nearly 40 years that the Harry J. Benda Prize was awarded to a Filipino.

1/ This collection starts with an introduction by Steve Ouma Akoth et al.: 'The atmospheres of massiveness: The politics and times of the maybe in Southern megaregions'. doi.org/10.1111/geoj.1…

The Massive Urbanization Collective’s special issue in The Geographical Journal is out now and free to access. Diverse and creative takes on massiveness and the times of the maybe in Istanbul, Delhi, Manila, Rio de Janeiro, Karachi, Jakarta, Nairobi, Lagos, Johannesburg, Cairo

This paper on urban gardens in Manila was really fun to write!

What are the challenges & opportunities facing Geography as a discipline globally? At Transactions, we have asked that question in two collections. See pieces from Cambodia, the Philippines, China, Sri Lanka, India, Brazil, Colombia, Italy, South Africa, Australia, & the US...1/2

Last week at the Association for Asian Studies Conference in Seattle: received the Harry J. Benda Prize, shared thoughts on the exciting urban work of young scholars in the Rising Voices panel, and made new Philippine/SEA Studies connections. (awarding photo c/o Alabastro Photography)

#AAG2024 join Kristian Saguin for Author Meets Comrades: Urban Ecologies at the Edge, winner of the 2023 AAG Meridian Award, on 4/18/2024 at 3:00 PM in 306B (Pālolo) Hawai'i Convention Center ucpress.edu/blog/65301/the…

First photo with the book at the UC Press booth #AAG2024

New paper with Kristian Saguin, Kaloy Cunanan & myself based on our research on high density urbanism in Manila. We use the concept of 'density textures' to explore how residents experience/perceive density & urban life. Open access in Urban Geography: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Our paper on density textures through Manila is out now and free to access

This Wednesday, Kristian Karlo Saguin (Kristian Saguin) joins GETSEA for our annual Community Book Read of his Association for Asian Studies Benda Prize winning book - "Urban Ecologies on the Edge: Making Manila's Resource Frontier" Oct 16 @ 7:00pm bit.ly/GETSEABookRead