Publications

BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS AUTHORED

• Lin, W. and Frétigny, J. B. (eds.) (2022) Low-Cost Aviation Society, Culture and Environment. Amsterdam: Elsevier. https://www.elsevier.com/books/low-cost-aviation/lin/978-0-12-820131-2

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

• Lin, W. (2024) 'Automation and aesthetic labour: The micro-mobilities of work in airport self-service', Mobilities. (Part of Special Issue entitled Anticipatory Automated Mobilities edited by Sarah Pink and Thao Phan)
• Adey, P., Lin, W. and Harris, T. (2024) '“We touch their heart”: Plastic automaticity and affective labour at Jakarta Soekarno‐Hatta Airport', Antipode. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/anti.13025
• Lin, W., Adey, P. and Harris, T. (2023) 'Situating and expanding the scope of dispositions towards automation', Dialogues in Human Geography. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820623118957 (onlinefirst)
• Brady, D and Lin, W (2023) 'Automating passenger work: airport labour at the transductive interface', Social and Cultural Geography. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2023.2197873
• Lin, W., Adey, P. and Harris, T. (2022) 'Dispositions Towards Automation: Capital, Technology and Labour Relations in Aeromobilities', Dialogues in Human Geography https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206221121652 (onlinefirst)
• Lin, W. (2022) 'Atmospheric Conditioning: Airport Automation, Labour and the COVID-19 Pandemic', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 47(1): 214-228 https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12499
• Lin, W. (2022) 'Automated Infrastructure: COVID-19 and the Shifting Geographies of Supply Chain Capitalism', Progress in Human Geography 46(2): 463-483. https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325211038718 (Free view article)
• Lin, W. (2021) 'Summit atmospheres: Aviation diplomacy and virtual infrastructures of politics', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 46(2): 406-419. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12428
• Lin, W. and Yeoh, B. S. A. (2021) 'Pathological (im)mobilities: Managing risk in a time of pandemics', Mobilities 16(1): 96-112, https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2020.1862454 (Part of special issue on Pandemic Mobilities)
• Lin, W. (2021) 'Aeromobilities in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic', Transfers 10(1): 102-110. https://doi.org/10.3167/TRANS.2020.100111
• Lin, W. (2020) 'Evental infrastructure: Momentous geographies of technoscience production', Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 110(6): 1770-1786 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24694452.2020.1724766
• Yeo, S. J. I. and Lin, W. (2020) 'Autonomous Vehicles, Human Agency and the Potential of Urban Life', Geography Compass 14(10): 1-12. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gec3.12531
• Lin, W. and Harris, T. (2020) 'Aeromobilities’ Extra-Sectoral Costs: A Methodological Reorientation', Mobilities. 15(4): 604-619. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17450101.2020.1764261
• Lin, W. and Qi, A. (2020) '“Aerial Silk Roads”: Airport Infrastructures in China’s Belt and Road Initiative', Development and Change 51(4): 1123-1145. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/dech.12606
• Lin, W. (2019) 'Transport geography and geopolitics: Visions, rules and militarism in China's belt and road initiative and beyond', Journal of Transport Geography. 81: 102436 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0966692319303783 (please click the button for download PDF at top of page, rather than the publisher's note)
• Lin, W. (2019) 'Infrastructure's expenditures: Changi Airport, food cargo and capital's technosphere', International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 43(1): 76-93. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-2427.12737
• Lin, W. (2018) 'Catering for flight: rethinking aeromobility as logistics', Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 36(4): 683-700. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0263775817697977
• Lin, W. (2018) 'Transport provision and the practice of mobilities production', Progress in Human Geography, 42(1): 92-111 http://phg.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/08/26/0309132516666189.full. 
• Lin, W. (2017) 'Sky watching: vertical surveillance in civil aviation', Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 35(3): 399-417. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0263775816670653
• Liu, T. and Lin, W. (2017) 'Transnational work and workplace as infrastructure: Sino-British International Branch Campuses and academic mobilities', Mobilities 12(2): 277-293 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17450101.2017.1292782.
• Lin, W. (2017) 'Aviation and climate change: practising green governmentality across the North-South divide', Geopolitics 22(1): 129-150. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14650045.2016.1210130
• Lin, W. (2016) ‘Drawing lines in the sky: the emotional labours of airspace production’, Environment and Planning A 48(6): 1030-1046. URL: http://epn.sagepub.com/content/48/6/1030
• Lin, W. (2016) ‘Re-assembling (aero)mobilities: perspectives beyond the West’, Mobilities 11(1): 49-65. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17450101.2015.1101904 (part of Traces of a mobile field: ten years of mobilities research)
• Stigum Gleiss, M. and Lin, W. (2016) 'The historiography of Asian aeromobilities: power, agency, and the limitations of the ‘Western’ gaze', Mobilities in History 7(1): 98-105.
• Lin W. (2015) ''Cabin pressure': designing affective atmospheres in airline travel', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 40(2): 287-299. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tran.12079/pdf
• Lin, W. (2014) ‘The politics of flying: aeromobile frictions in a mobile city’, Journal of Transport Geography 38: 92-99. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S096669231400115X
• Lin, W. (2014) ‘Flying through ash clouds: improvising aeromobilities in Singapore and Australasia’, Mobilities 9(2): 220-237. https://rsa.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17450101.2013.818276#.XrjvHGgzY2w
• Yeoh, B. S. A. and Lin, W. (2013) ‘Chinese migration to Singapore: discourses and discontents in a globalizing nation-state’, Asia Pacific Migration Journal 22(1): 31-54. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/011719681302200103
• Lin, W. (2012) ‘Wasting time? The differentiation of travel time in urban transport’, Environment and Planning A 44(10): 2477-2492. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1068/a4525
• Lin, W. (2012) ‘Beyond flexible citizenship: towards a study of many Chinese transnationalisms’, Geoforum 43(1): 137-146.
• Lin, W. and Yeoh, B. S. A. (2011) ‘Questioning the ‘field in motion’: emerging concepts, research practices and the geographical imagination in Asian migration studies’, Cultural Geographies 18(1): 125-131.

EDITORIAL WORK ON JOURNALS

• Frétigny, J. B. and Lin, W. (2021) 'Changing Geographies of the Passenger: Heterogeneous Subjects on the Move', Journal of Transport Geography, Volume 92, April 2021, 103006. (Editorial for VSI: Heterogeneous Passengers) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0966692321000594?dgcid=rss_sd_all#!
• Sidaway, J., Rowedder, S., Woon, C. Y., Lin, W. and Phosena, V. (2020) 'Introduction: Research Agendas Raised by the Belt and Road Initiative', Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. 38(5) 795–847. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2399654420911410 (for Symposium on Politics and spaces of China’s Belt and Road Initiative) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2399654420911410?journalCode=epcb
• Lin, W., Lindquist, J., Xiang, B. and Yeoh, B. S. A. (2017) 'Migration Infrastructures and the Production of Migrant Mobilities',  Mobilities,  12(2): 167-174 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17450101.2017.1292782., http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17450101.2017.1292770 
• Lin, W. and Yeoh, B. S. A. (2016) 'Editorial: moving in relations to Asia: the politics and practices of mobility', Environment and Planning A 48(6): 1004-1011. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0308518X16633004
• Steele, M. W. and Lin, W. (2014) ‘Mobilities and modernities in Asia: history, historiography, and be(com)ing on the move’, Transfers 4(3): 43-48. https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/transfers/4/3/trans040304.xml (free view article)

SHORTER ARTICLES/COMMENTS IN JOURNAL

• Lin, W. (2023) 'Automating Life, Wounded Citizenships', Space and Polity 26(3): 165-170. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562576.2022.2138312 
• Lin, W. (2023) 'Practising geography in/with technical ​​​​​​worlds', Dialogues in Human Geography. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20438206231156901
• Lin, W. (2013) 'A geopolitics of (im)mobility?', Political Geography 36: A1-A3.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

• Lin, W. and Yeo, S. J. I. (2023) 'Airport robots: Automation, everyday life and the future of urbanisms', In F. Cugurullo, F. Caprotti, M. Cook, A. Karvonen, P. McGuirk and S. Marvin (eds.) Artificial Intelligence and the City Urbanistic Perspectives on AI. London: Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003365877/artificial-intelligence-city-federico-cugurullo-federico-caprotti-matthew-cook-andrew-karvonen-pauline-mcguirk-simon-marvin
• Lin, W. (2020) ‘Assembling a great way to fly: performances of comfort in the air’, in L. Price, D. McNally and P. Crang (eds.) Geographies of Comfort. London: Routledge, pp. 151-170. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315557762
• Lin, W. and Shilon, M. (2020) ‘Aeromobilities’, in A. Kobayashi and F. L. Collins  (eds.) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (2nd Edition). Elsevier, pp. 41-45. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780081022955103592
• Lin, W. (2018) 'Aeromobility justice: a global institutional perspective', in N. Cook and D. Butz (eds.) Mobilities, Mobility Justice and Social Justice. London: Routledge, pp. 41-53. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429785436
• Yeoh, B. S. A. and Lin, W. (2018) ‘Cosmpolitanism in cities and beyond: potentials, pitfalls and possibilities’, in G. Delanty (ed.) Handbook of Cosmopolitan Studies 2nd Edition. London: Routledge, pp. [Chapter 26]
• Lin, W. (2018) ‘Spacing the atmosphere: the politics of air’, in K. Peters, P. Steinberg, and E. Stratford (eds.) Territory Beyond Terra. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 35-50.
• Lin, W. and Stigum-Gleiss, M. (2018) 'Migration and the production of migrant mobilities', in G. Farrer-Liu and Yeoh, B.S.A. (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Asian Migrations. London: Routledge, pp. 141-151. https://www.amazon.com/Routledge-Handbook-Migrations-Gracia-Liu-Farrer/dp/1138959855
• Lin W. (2017) 'Re-assembling (aero)mobilities: perspectives beyond the West', in J. Faulconbridge and A. Hui (eds) Traces of a Mobile Field: Ten Years of Mobilities Research. London: Routledge, pp. 49-65.
• Yeoh, B. S. A. and Lin, W. (2016) ‘Multiplying diversities: how “new” Chinese mobilities are changing Singapore’, in P. Nyíri and D. Tan (eds.) How Chinese Engagements Are Changing Southeast Asia: People, Money, Ideas and their Effects. Seattle: University of Washington Press, pp. 42-57.
• Lin, W. and Yeoh, B. S. A. (2014) 'Transpacific studies: The view from Asia', in J. Hoskins and V. T. Nguyen (eds.) Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, pp. 41-63. https://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/transpacific-studies-framing-an-emerging-field/
• Ho, E. L. E and Lin, W. (2014) ‘The desirability of Asia: logics and geographies of “return” migration by Singaporean transmigrants in diaspora’, in Y. W. Chan, D. Haines and J. H. X. Lee (eds.) The Age of Asian Migration: Continuity, Diversity and Susceptibility Volume I. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 327-341.
• Adey, P. and Lin, W. (2014) ‘The social and cultural geographies of air-transport’, in A. Goetz and L. Budd (eds.) Geographies of Air Transport. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 61-71.
• Lin, W. and Yeoh, B. S. A. (2013) ‘Singaporeans in America’, in X. Zhao and E. J. W. Park (eds.) Asian Americans: an Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural and Political History. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group.
• Yeoh, B. S. A. and Lin, W. (2012) ‘Cosmopolitanism in cities and beyond’, in G. Delanty (ed.) Handbook of Cosmopolitan Studies. London: Routledge, pp. 208-219. https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Cosmopolitanism-Studies/Delanty/p/book/9780415600811

BOOK REVIEWS

• Lin, W. (2018) 'AIRPORT URBANISM: Infrastructure and Mobility in Asia. By Max Hirsh. Minneapolis; London: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. x, 201 pp., [10] pp. of plates. (Maps, B&W photos.) US$25.00, paper. ISBN 978-8166-9610-9.', Pacific Affairs. Early View: http://www.pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/book-reviews/book-reviews-2/forthcoming-book-reviews/
• Lin, W. (2015) 'Aluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity, Mimi Sheller. The MIT Press, London (2014).£ 20.95 (Hardback). ISBN: 978-0-262-02682-6', Journal of Transport Geography 47: 141-142.

PUBLISHED REPORTS

• Lin, W. (2015) ‘Spatial dimensions of Singapore’s multi-ethnic soul’, in Ethnic Rhythms: Life in the Global City. Singapore: Singapore Centre for Global Missions, pp. 40-41.
• Yeoh, B. S. A. and Lin, W. (2012) ‘Rapid Growth in Singapore’s Immigrant Population Brings Policy Challenges’, Migration Information Source, http://www.migrationinformation.org/feature/display.cfm?ID=887.

Representative Publications

• Lin, W. (2022) 'Automated Infrastructure: COVID-19 and the Shifting Geographies of Supply Chain Capitalism', Progress in Human Geography. https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325211038718
• Lin, W. (2020) 'Evental infrastructure: Momentous geographies of technoscience production', Annals of the American Association of Geographers. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24694452.2020.1724766
• Lin, W. (2019) 'Infrastructure's expenditures: Changi Airport, food cargo and capital's technosphere', International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 43(1): 76-93. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-2427.12737
• Lin, W. (2016) ‘Re-assembling (aero)mobilities: perspectives beyond the West’, Mobilities 11(1): 49-65. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17450101.2015.1101904 (part of Traces of a mobile field: ten years of mobilities research)
• Lin W. (2015) ''Cabin pressure': designing affective atmospheres in airline travel', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 40(2): 287-299. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tran.12079/pdf

Media Engagements

The Straits Times (2018) 'Malaysia has done itself in with actions', 10 December, https://www.straitstimes.com/forum/letters-in-print/malaysia-has-done-itself-in-with-actions

Lianhe Zaobao (2018) '每天来回新马 超人游子 天微明时醒在长堤', 26 August, https://www.zaobao.com.sg/zlifestyle/powerup/story20180826-885981?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1535246994

Channel News Asia (Leong, Wai Kit) (2018) 'Lao Airlines halts direct Singapore-Laos route again', 13 March, https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/lao-airlines-halts-direct-singapore-laos-route-again-10038542

The Straits Times (2018) 'SIA must go the extra mile to win new fliers', 13 November, http://www.straitstimes.com/forum/letters-in-print/sia-must-go-the-extra-mile-to-win-new-fliers

TODAY (2016) 'The Big Read: High-speed rail’s benefits go far beyond an easy commute', 23 July, http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/big-read-high-speed-rails-benefits-go-far-beyond-easy-commute