2023 RGS Annual Conference
August 30 18:20 – 20:00 Imperial In-person 2 followed by a Reception August 30 20:30 – 22:00 RGS-IBG Meeting Room 4
(The date and time is subject to change, see the link for updates https://www.rgs.org/research/annual-international-conference/programme/)
Panellists: Elia Apostolopoulou (University of Cambridge); Alex Loftus (King’s College London); Nate Millington (University of Manchester); Jonathan Silver (University of Sheffield; Lindsay Sawyer (University of Sheffield)
Chair: Jennie Middleton (University of Oxford)
Organiser: Calvin Chung (Chinese University of Hong Kong), on behalf of the UGRG
Abstract: Connolly uses ongoing urban redevelopment in Penang, Malaysia, to provide stimulating new perspectives on urbanisation, governance and political ecology. The book deploys the concept of landscape political ecology to show how Penang residents, activists, planners and other stakeholders mobilise new relationships with the urban environment to contest controversial development projects and challenge hegemonic visions for the city’s future. Based on six years of local research, this book provides both a dynamic account of region’s rapid reshaping and a fresh theoretical framework in which to understand socio-ecological and spatial transformations at the landscape scale.
This Author Meets Critics session brings Political Ecologies of Landscape into conversation with urban political ecologists focusing on other regions of the global South to consider issues of sustainable development, situated political ecologies, infrastructure, conservation and governance in rapidly urbanising areas worldwide. The session will be interactive and aims to construct some dialogue with those attending in the audience. The session is sponsored and co-organised by the RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group and will be followed by a reception.
