James D. Sidaway
Professor, National University of SingaporeJames D. Sidaway is a political geographer at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore.
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A joint initiative between the University of Bergen
and CMI – Chr. Michelsen Institute
Resituating urban geopolitics: connections and frontiers
20.06.2024
12:00 - 13:00English
Welcome to a guest lecture with James D. Sidaway.
There has been a surge in references to urban geopolitics over the last twenty-plus years. Reviewing claims that warfare has urbanized, however, yields questions about the delineation and frontiers of the urban. The multiple meanings and definitions of “geopolitics” and “urban” beckon a broadening range of sites and an analytical deepening of urban geopolitics. To these ends, seeking to develop the field in conceptual terms, the article revisits Maoism’s urban geopolitics and reflects from other selected African and Asian sites. This invites deeper geopolitical engagement with the literatures on extended – planetary – urbanization.
Edyta Roszko will chair the session.
A light lunch will be served.
The event is organised by the research project Transoceanic Fishers: Multiple Mobilises in and out of the South China Sea, funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and led by Research Professor Edyta Roszko.
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Bergen GlobalJekteviksbakken 31, Bergen
20.06.2024
12:00 - 13:00
English
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Edyta Roszko
Research Professor, CMIEdyta Roszko is a social anthropologist at the Chr. Michelsen Institute and a Global Visiting Professor in Global History and Human Rights at Lund University (2026–2028).
Read moreJames D. Sidaway
Professor, National University of Singapore
James D. Sidaway is a political geographer at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore.
James D Sidaway has served as Professor of Political Geography at the National University of Singapore (NUS) since 2012. Prior to that he was a Professor of Political and Cultural Geography at the University of Amsterdam. He has also worked at several universities in England, following his PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London.
At NUS, he currently teaches undergraduate classes on cities, territories and states in the Middle East and on the history and philosophy of geographic thought. He also teaches a graduate class on political geography. His empirical research is currently focused on the urban transformations of Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
At NUS, he convenes a “Research Partnership on Asian Infrastructures” with The Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien (DIJ) which is one of the institutes of the Max Weber Foundation (MWS). His most recent book (co-authored with Till F Passache) is Transecting Securityscapes: Dispatches from Cambodia, Iraq, and Mozambique (University of Georgia Press, Athens GA, 2021).
Edyta Roszko
Research Professor, CMI
Edyta Roszko is a social anthropologist at the Chr. Michelsen Institute and a Global Visiting Professor in Global History and Human Rights at Lund University (2026–2028).
Her expertise is grounded in East and Southeast Asia, yet informed by a global perspective and a strong theoretical commitment to understanding how societies navigate economic and climate precarity in an era of intensifying global interdependence.
Bergen Global is a joint initiative between the University of Bergen and Chr. Michelsen Institute that addresses global challenges.
