신현방Hyun Bang SHin

공동연구원

런던정경대학교 (LSE) 지리환경학과

BSc (SNU), MSc (LSE), PhD (LSE)

London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Department of Geography and Environment

BSc (SNU), MSc (LSE), PhD (LSE)

영국 런던정치경제대학(London School of Economics and Political Science) 지리환경학과 교수. 도시학, 도시지리 전공이며, 서울, 베이징, 광저우 등 동아시아 도시 경험 연구를 바탕으로 젠트리피케이션, 메가이벤트, 철거, 도시권 등을 주제로 활발한 저술 활동을 하고 있다. 최근에는 부동산 자본의 해외 진출 등을 주제로 베트남과 에콰도르에서 현장연구를 진행하고 있다. 대표 저서로 <Global Gentrifications: Uneven Development and Displacement>, <Planetary Gentrification>, <안티 젠트리피케이션: 무엇을 할 것인가> 등이 있으며, 현재 <Making China Urban>, <Contesting Urban Space in East Asia>, <The Political Economy of Mega-Projects in Asia> 등을 저술 중이다. Urban Salon Seminar Series 조직위원이자, Urban Studies Foundation 상임이사이며, 현재 <Antipode>의  국제자문위원, <Urban Geography>, <China City Planning Review>, <City, Culture and Society>, <Radical Housing Journal>, <공간과 사회>의 편집위원을 역임하고 있다.

Hyun Bang Shin is Professor of Geography and Urban Studies and Director of the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre. He also co-directs the MSc programme in Urbanisation and Development.

Hyun’s research centres on the critical analysis of the political economic dynamics of urbanisation with particular attention to cities in Asian countries such as China, South Korea, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Singapore. His most recent project on circulating urbanism and (Asian) capital has also brought him to work on Quito, Manila, Iskandar Malaysia, Kuwait City and London. His research themes include speculative urbanisation; the politics of redevelopment; displacement; gentrification; housing; the right to the city; mega-events as urban spectacles; mega-projects.

Hyun has published widely in major international journals and contributed to numerous books on the above themes. His books include Global Gentrifications: Uneven Development and Displacement (Policy Press, 2015); Planetary Gentrification (Polity Press, 2016); Anti Gentrification: What is to be Done (Dongnyok, 2017); Neoliberal Urbanism, Contested Cities and Housing in Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).

He is a board member (trustee) of the Urban Studies Foundation, and sit on the international advisory board of the journal Antipode as well as on the editorial board of the journals International Journal of Urban and Regional Research; Urban Geography; CITY; City, Culture and Society; Radical Housing Journal; Space and Environment [in Korea]; China City Planning Review [in China]. He is also a co-organiser of the Urban Salon, an interdisciplinary London forum for architecture, cities and international urbanism, and edits an LSE blog Field Research Methods Lab.

(For a full publication list, visit http://urbancommune.net/publications)

Sonn, J. and Shin, H.B. (2019) Contextualizing accumulation by dispossession: The state and high-rise apartment clusters in Gangnam, Seoul. Annals for the American Association of Geographers. DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2019.1638751

Chen, Y-L. and Shin, H.B. (eds.) (2019) Neoliberal Urbanism, Contested Cities and Housing in Asia. The Contemporary City Series. Palgrave Macmillan

Shin, H.B. (2019) Asian urbanism. In:  Orum, A.M. (ed.) The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies. Wiley-Blackwell. DOI: 10.1002/9781118568446.eurs0010

Shin, H.B. (2018) Urban movements and the genealogy of urban rights discourses: The case of urban Protesters against redevelopment and displacement in Seoul, South Korea. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 108(2): 356-369 DOI:10.1080/24694452.2017.1392844

Shin, H.B. (2018) Studying global gentrifications, in: J. Harrison and M. Hoyler (eds.), Doing Global Urban Research. London: Sage, pp. 138-152.

Shin, H.B. and Moreno, L. Introduction: The urban process under planetary accumulation by dispossession. City. Vol 22, No. 1, 78-87

Shin, H.B. (ed.) (2017) Anti-Gentrification: What is to be done. Seoul: Dongnyok [In Korean]

Lees, L., Shin, H.B. and López-Morales, E. (2016) Planetary Gentrification. Cambridge: Polity Press

Lees, L., Shin, H.B. and López-Morales, E. (eds.) (2015) Global Gentrifications: Uneven Development and Displacement. Bristol: Policy Press

Shin, H.B. (forthcoming) Urban movements and the genealogy of urban rights discourses: The case of urban Protesters against redevelopment and displacement in Seoul, South Korea. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. DOI:10.1080/24694452.2017.1392844

Shin, H.B. (2017) Speculative urbanisation, gentrification and the right to the city. In Choi, B-D. (ed.) City of Hope. Seoul: The Seoul Institute, pp.216-243 [In Korean]

Shin, H.B. (2017) Envisioned by the state: Entrepreneurial urbanism and the making of Songdo City, South Korea. In: Datta, A. and Shaban, A. (eds.) Mega-urbanization in the Global South: Fast Cities and New Urban Utopias of the Postcolonial State. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, pp.83-100

Shin, H.B. (2016) China meets Korea: the Asian Games, entrepreneurial local states and debt-driven development. In: Gruneau, R. and Horne, J. (eds.) Mega Events and Globalization: Capital and  Spectacle in a Changing World Order. Abingdon: Routledge, pp.186-205

Shin, H.B. (2016) Economic transition and speculative urbanisation in China: Gentrification versus dispossession. Urban Studies 53(3): 471-489

Shin, H.B. and Kim, S-H. (2016) The developmental state, speculative urbanisation and the politics of displacement in gentrifying Seoul. Urban Studies 53(3): 540-559

Shin, H.B. (2016) Editorial review: Developmentalist urbanization, gentrification and the alliance of resistance. Space and Environment 26(3): 5-14 [In Korean]

Shin, H.B. (2014) Contesting speculative urbanisation and strategising discontents. CITY: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action 18(4-5): 509-516

Shin, H.B. (2014) Urban spatial restructuring, event-led development and scalar politics. Urban Studies 51(14): 2961-2978