FASS Staff Profile

DR WOON CHIH YUAN
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT of GEOGRAPHY

Appointment:
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Office:
AS2/03-20
Email:
geowcy@nus.edu.sg
Tel:
(+65) 65163808
Fax:
(+65) 67773091
Homepage:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/geowcy/
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Brief Introduction

Academic Qualifications
PhD in Geography, Royal Holloway University of London (2011)
M.Soc.Sc., National University of Singapore (2007)
B.Soc.Sc., National University of Singapore (2005)

Work Experience
Associate Professor, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore (2018-Present)                                                                                                                          

Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore (2011-2017)
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway University of London (2010-2011)
Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore (2008-2011)


Teaching Areas

1) GE2222 Politics and Space

2) GE4217 Political Geographies: Space and Power

3) GE6224 Political Geography

4) GEK2001/SSA2202/GES1003 Changing Landscapes of Singapore


Graduate Supervision

1) Felix Mallin (PhD; 2014- Present) (Co-supervised with Prof James Sidaway)

2) Timo Sysioe (PhD; 2016- Present) (Co-supervised with A/P Pow Choon Piew)

3) Shymain Wickramasinghe (PhD; 2017- Present) (Co-supervised with Prof Neil Coe)

4) Shona Loong (Masters; 2015-2017)


Current Research

1) Rethinking China's Geopolitical Positioning: Power, Identities and the Vareigated Expressions of Sovereignty

2) 'Rising Asia' and the Contested Geopolitics of the Polar Regions         

3) The Critical Geopolitics of China's "One Belt, One Road" Initiatives                                                                                


Research Interests

1) Geographies of Peace and Nonviolence

2) Geographies of Terrorism

3) Critical Geopolitics

4) Social Movements and NGOs


Publications

EDITORIAL WORK ON BOOKS

  • Ho, E.L.E., Woon, C.Y. and Ramdas, K. (Eds) (2013). Changing Landscapes of Singapore: Old Tensions, New Discoveries. Singapore: NUS Press.

     

    Woon, C.Y. and Dodds, K. (Eds) (2020). 'Observing' the Arctic: Asia in the Arctic Council and Beyond. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar [will be published in August 2020]

EDITORIAL WORK ON JOURNALS

  • Sidaway, J., Woon, C.Y. and Jacobs, J.M. (2014). Advancing Postcolonial Geographies. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 35(1): 4-150.

     

    Sidaway, J., Ho, E.L.E., Rigg, J. and Woon, C.Y. (2016). Area Studies and Geography: Trajectories and Manifesto. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 34(5): 777-857

    Sidaway, J., Rowedder, S., Woon, C.Y., Lin, W.Q. and Pholsena, V. (2020). Politics and Spaces of China's Belt and Road Initiative. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Spacedoi.org/10.1177/2399654420911410.

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

  •  Woon, C.Y. (2011). 'Protest is just a Click Away': Responses to the 2003 Iraq War on a Bulletin Board System in China. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 29(1): 131-149.

     

    Woon, C.Y. (2011). Undoing Violence, Unbounding Precarity: Beyond the Frames of Terror in the Philippines. Geoforum 42(3): 285-293.

     Woon, C.Y. (2012). Geopolitics, Identity and Engaging China. Eurasian Geography and Economics 53(3): 285-291.

    Woon, C.Y. (2013). For 'Emotional Fieldwork' in Critical Geopolitical Research on Violence and Terrorism. Political Geography, 33: 31-41.

    Sidaway, J., Woon, C.Y. and Jacobs, J.M. (2014). Planetary Postcolonialism. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 35(1): 4-21

    Woon, C.Y. (2014). Precarious Geopolitics and the Possibilities of Nonviolence. Progress in Human Geography 38(5): 654-670.

    Sidaway, J., Paasche, T., Woon, C.Y. and Piseth, K. (2014). Transecting Security and Space in Phnom Penh. Environment and Planning A 46(5): 1181-1202.

    Woon, C.Y. (2014). Popular Geopolitics, Audiences and Identities: Reading the 'War on Terror' in the Philippines. Geopolitics 19(3): 656-683

    Woon, C.Y. (2014). Translating Territory. Dialogues in Human Geography 4(3): 345-348.

    Woon, C.Y. (2015). Peopling Geographies of Peace: The Role of the Military in Peacebuilding in the Philippines. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 40(1): 14-27.

    Woon,C.Y. (2017). Children, Critical Geopolitics and Peace: Mapping and Mobilizing Children's Hopes for Peace in the Philippines. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 107(1): 200-217.

    Loong, S. and Woon, C.Y. (2017). The Precarious Geopolitics of Urban Encounters in Jonathan Safran Foers' Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2015). Geografiska Annaler: Series B Human Geography. 99(1): 1-19.

    Sidaway, J. and Woon, C.Y. (2017). Chinese Narratives on "One Belt, One Road" (一带一路) in Geopolitical and Imperial Contexts. The Professional Geographer, 69(4): 591-603

    Woon, C.Y. (2018). China's Contingencies: Critical Geopolitics, Chinese Exceptionalism and the Uses of History. Geopolitics, 23(1): 67-95

    Ramdas, K., Ho, E.L.E. and Woon, C.Y. (2018). Changing Landscapes as Text: Geograhy and National Education in Singapore. Area, 50(1): 50-54.

    Woon, C.Y. (2018). Internet Spaces and the (Re)making of Democratic Politics: The Case of Singapore's 2011 General Election. Geojournal. 83(1): 1133-1150.

    Lin, S., Sidaway, J.D. and Woon, C.Y. (2019). Reordering China, Respacing the World: Belt and Road Initiative (一带一路) as an Emergent Geopolitical Culture. The Professional Geographer, 71(3): 507-522.

    Loong,S., Sidaway, J.D., Woon, C.Y., Agnew, J., Henryk, A., Fluri, J., Hamdan, A., Jones, R., Kricker, D. and Megoran, N. (in press). Reading Nick Megoran’s Nationalism in Central Asia: A Biography of the Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan Boundary, Nick Megoran (Ed.), University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh (2019). Political Geography, 72: 134-143.

    Woon, C.Y. (2019). Editorial: Translating Territory, Politics and Governance. Territory, Politics, Governance, 7(2): 115-121.

    Woon, C.Y. (2020). Framing the “Polar Silk Road” (冰上丝绸之路): Critical geopolitics, Chinese scholars and the (Re)Positionings of China's Arctic interests. Political Geography, 78: 102141.

    Woon, C.Y. and J.J. Zhang (in press). Subterranean geopolitics, affective atmosphere and peace: Negotiating China-Taiwan relations in the Zhaishan Tunnel. Geoforum.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

  • Woon, C.Y. (2009). 'A New Mecca for Terrorism?' Unveiling the 'Second Front' in Southeast Asia. In A.Ingram and K.Dodds (eds), Spaces of Security and Insecurity: Geographies of the War on Terror. Ashgate: England, pp 85-108.

     

    Dodds, K. and Woon, C.Y. (2012). Global Governance. In P.Daniels, M.Bradshaw, D.Shaw and J.Sidaway (eds), Introduction to Human Geography, 4th Edition. UK: Pearson Education, pp 486-506.

     Woon, C.Y. (2013). Global South. In K.Dodds, J.Sharp and M.Kuus (eds), Ashgate Companion to Critical Geopolitics. Ashgate: London, pp 323-340.

    Ho, E.L.E., Woon, C.Y. and Ramdas, K. (2013). Rediscovering Singapore's Changing Landscapes. In E.L.E.Ho, C.Y.Woon and K.Ramdas (eds), Changing Landscapes of Singapore: Old Tensions, New Discoveries. NUS Press: Singapore, pp. 1-21.

    Woon, C.Y. (2013). Geopolitical Landscapes of Terror and Security in Singapore. In E.L.E.Ho, C.Y.Woon and K.Ramdas (eds), Changing Landscapes of Singapore: Old Tensions, New Discoveries. NUS Press: Singapore. pp. 179-195.

    Woon, C.Y. (2014). 'China, Canada and Multiple Framings of Arctic Geopolitics'. In R.Powell and K.Dodds (eds), Polar Geopolitics: Knowledges, Resources and Legal Regimes. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK, pp. 166-182.

    Woon, C.Y. (2015). Post-Colonialism. In Agnew J., Mamadouh V., Secor A., Sharp J. (eds) The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Geography. London: Wiley-Blackwell.pp.249-264.

    Dodds, K. and Woon, C.Y. (2016). Geopolitics. In International Encyclopaedia of the Social and Behaviourial Sciences.

    Woon, C.Y. (2016). Geopolitics and the Environment. In The International Encyclopaedia of Geography

    Sidaway, J., Mamadouh, V. and Woon, C.Y. (2016). Geopolitical Traditions. In P.Daniels, M.Bradshaw, D.Shaw and J.Sidaway (eds), Introduction to Human Geography, 5th Edition. UK: Pearson Education, pp 399-420.

    Dodds, K. and Woon, C.Y. (2016). Global Governance. In P.Daniels, M.Bradshaw, D.Shaw and J.Sidaway (eds), Introduction to Human Geography, 5th Edition. UK: Pearson Education, pp 470-490.

    Dodds, K. and Woon, C.Y. (2019). Triumphant Geopolitics? Making Space of and for Arctic Geopolitics in the Arctic Ocean. In Zaika, Y and Kelman, I. (eds). Arctic Triumph: Northern Innovation and Persistence. Springer,  pp. 163-180.

    Woon, C.Y. (2019). Towards an Everyday Military Geography: Materialities, Actors, Practices. In R. Woodward (ed.). A Research Agenda for Military Geographies. UK: Edward Elgar, pp. 115-132.

    Woon, C.Y. (2019). Violence and Peace. In A. Kobayashi (ed.). International Encyclopedia of Human Geography 2nd Edition. USA: Elsevier.

    Dodds, K. and Woon, C.Y. (forthcoming in 2020). Introduction: The Arctic Council, 'Asian States' and the 'Global Arctic'. In Woon, C.Y. and Dodds, K. (eds). 'Observing' the Arctic: Asian States in the Arctic Council and Beyond. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 

    Woon, C.Y. and Dodds, K. (forthcoming in 2020). The Fear of 'Bypass': The Flexible Diplomacy of Jacking-up and Stretching Out of Singapore's Arctic Connections. In Woon, C.Y. and Dodds, K. (eds). 'Observing' the Arctic: Asian States in the Arctic Council and Beyond. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 

    Dodds, K. and Woon, C.Y. (forthcoming in 2020). Classical Geopolitics Revisited. In C. Navari (ed). Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies.  

BOOK REVIEWS

  • Woon, C.Y. (2013). (En)Countering Asia in Africa: Opportunities, Challenges and the Geopolitics of Engagement. Geopolitics, 18(1): 247-253.

     

    Woon, C.Y. (2014). Review of Michael Hawkins "Making Moros:Imperial Historicism and American Military Rule in the Philippines' Muslim South". Asian Journal of Social Science 42(3/4): 487-490.

Other Information

Academic Appointments
Editorial Board Member, Geography Compass (Political Geography Section) (2013- Present)

Editorial Board Member, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space (2017- Present)

Editorial Board Member, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography (2018- Present)

Co-Editor, Territory, Politics, Governance (2018- Present)

Co-Editor, RGS-IBG Book Series (Published by Wiley Blackwell) (2020- Present)

Editorial Board Member, Book Series on Spaces of Peace, Security and Development (Published by Bristol University Press) (2018- Present) 

Editorial Board Member, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (2016- 2019)

Editorial Board Member , RGS-IBG Book Series (Published by Wiley-Blackwell) (2019- 2020)

'Young Members' Group of the Commission on Political Geography, International Geographical Union 

Co-editor (with Merje Kuus and Alan Ingram) of Ashgate's Critical Geopolitics Book Series                                                                     

Academic Awards

AcRF Tier One Grant (held with James Sidaway and Jane M. Jacobs)- 'Advancing Postcolonial Geographies' (2011-2013)

AcrF Tier One Grant (held with James Sidaway, Elaine Ho and Jonathan Rigg)- 'Area Studies and Geography: Reformatting a Relationship' (2014-2016)

AcRF Tier One Grant (held with Jesse Hastings)- 'Rising Asia and the (Re)Making of Arctic Geopolitics' (2015-2017)

British Academy International Partnership and Mobility Award (held with Klaus Dodds)- Observing the Arctic: Asian States and the (Geo)politics of Involvement in the Arctic Council (2016-2018)

HSS Seed Fund (held with Pow Choon Piew)- Urbanising 'One Belt, One Road': Globalisation, Development and Diplomacy (2017-2019)

Geoforum Workshop Grant 2019 (held with Klaus Dodds)- Designing, Digging, Excavating and Living: Subterranean Geopolitics (2018- 2019) 

AcRF Tier One Grant (held with Shaun Lin, Lin Weiqiang, Kamalini Ramdas and James Sidaway)- The Geographies, Geopolitics and Infrastructures of Postcolonial Theory: An International Symposium (2019- 2021)

ODPRT Grant for Research Excellence (2012, 2013, 2014 & 2018)

NUS Start-up Grant (2012-2015)

Other Awards

FASS Faculty Excellent Teacher Award (2012/2013; 2013/2014; 2014/2015; 2016/17)

FASS Award for Promising Researcher 2015

Progress in Human Geography Best Paper Prize 2015



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