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Recording of the first EXALT Dialogues ‘Insurrection in #Energy Research: #Pluriversal Encounters with #Energy Transition & #Renewability' is out! Share widely! Great contributions by Zoi Christina Siamanta, Larry Lohmann, Carlos Tornel & Alexander Dunlap youtube.com/watch?v=_YaMtf…

Call for papers for Roadsides Collection no. 010 on Urban Bioinfrastructures, edited by Raúl Acosta Raul Acosta and Lukas Ley Lukas Ley roadsides.net/call-for-paper…

I went to the world's epicentre of nickel production - a key component of EV batteries - for WIRED. The dirty truth behind this green energy transition is that workers are dying, locals are starving and an Indonesian island's ecosystem is vanishing. wired.com/story/workers-…

We are excited to announce our next Global Asias Cyber Chat! Gendering Social Movements across Global Asia and Asian America is hosted by CU Boulder Humanities & the Arts and the CU Center for Asian Studies in partnership with the GAI. Register at bit.ly/3KnVd9A @Drjenho

The Silk Road has become one of the key geo-political concepts today but what lies behind its revival and its march towards global fame? Join Silk Road Futures here at ARI as he talks about the Silk Road's biography and its contestions today. More at: buff.ly/3IJIA60

Looking forward to giving this presentation at the Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Gunung Djati’s Faculty of Social and Political Science on my approach to studying the Jakarta Bandung High-Speed Railway from an infrastructure studies and techno-political approach

New on the blog! Guanie Lim and Hong Liu discuss the lessons learned over the past ten years from the BRI in Southeast Asia. Check it out 👉 shorturl.at/qADOR

My book, 'One China, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism', featured in this week's POLITICO China Watcher One Book, Three Questions section. Cornell University Press

Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi co-authored a factsheet The New Global Connect: Mega-Infrastructure Projects and their Local Impacts published by the Swiss Academy of Sciences kfpe.scnat.ch/en/uuid/i/9cd7…

China slashing foreign subscriber access to key research database asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Inter… via Nikkei Asia

New article: Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan have totally different histories and governance, Yet, they are imagined as one through the phrase 港澳台, which simulates a regional formation to serve a strategy of irredentism. 1/10 tandfonline.com/eprint/3PVUSEM…

📢 JOB ALERT A RF position is available for a grant project looking at #urban cities, #urbandevelopment and #urbanfutures in #SEAsia. 🏗️ Come join a supportive and vibrant research team at Asia Research Institute - NUS! Apply before 15 May. For more details, please visit: buff.ly/3mi4zKl

#NowAvailable | Xiaoling Chen and Tim Oakes (CU Boulder 🦬) argue that the Chinese contact-tracing tool Time-Space Companion was used to discipline citizens and shift public health responsibilities onto them through regulation, discipline, & criminalization. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Only took 4 years, but our SI "On the Blockade" is finally complete! Our introduction "Beyond the Chokepoint: Blockades as Social Struggles" begins from a dissatisfaction w/ the fetishization of chokepoints as de facto progressive disruptions to the contemporary capitalist order

The complete Roadsides collection no. 009 Gendering Infrastructure is available for download in high and low resolution: roadsides.net/collection-no-…

“It’s as if the whole city has suddenly been unzipped to reveal a shadow city lurking underneath.” Read my new opinion essay in the New York Times. Link in bio. instagr.am/p/Crc0fbgy0Ir/