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Chih Yuan Woon

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ID1341018
NAMEChih Yuan Woon
GIVEN NAMESChih Yuan
FAMILY NAMEWoon
SIGNATUREWOON C Y
AFFILIATIONSNational University of Singapore
ORCID0000-0002-2811-5809
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS39
TOTAL CITATIONS419
AUTHOR COUNT37
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX12
  • Locating critical AI geopolitics

    Open Access•Klaus Dodds, James Derrick Sidaway et al.•ARTICLE•Political Geography•2026

  • Narrating Chinese AI Geopolitical Tradition

    Open Access•Chih Yuan Woon•ARTICLE•Geography Compass•2026

    The emergence of China's DeepSeek—a powerful and cost‐efficient open‐source language model—has stirred considerable discourse among scholars and industry researchers. In particular, there is no lack of “external” claims that DeepSeek is representative of China's ambition to expand its influence in the international AI governance framework and counteract what it sees as America's technological hegemony, thereby allowing the country's elites to acc…

  • The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography

    Open Access•Anna Secor, Joanne Sharp et al.•BOOK•The Wiley Blackwell Companion to…•2025•Cited by: 1

  • Introduction: Explanation, critique and critics of geoeconomics

    Open Access•Felix Mallin, James Derrick Sidaway et al.•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning A…•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 22

    Geoeconomics, strategist Edward Luttwak affirmed in 1990, represented the waning of a geopolitical era and the ascent of a 'logic of conflict with the methods of commerce'. In the decades since, numerous variations on his argument have enjoyed wide resonance. Geoeconomics became a term of reference for power contests from the realms of commercial warfare and infrastructure expansionism to the sculpting of new military and economic blocs. Nonethel…

  • Deglobalization and China's Visions for Reconfiguring Development Space

    Chih Yuan Woon, James Derrick Sidaway•ARTICLE•Geopolitics•2025•Cited by: 2•References: 56

    Recent years have seen proliferating media references to ‘deglobalization’, frequently drawing historical analogies with periods of crisis and dislocation, such as the 1930s. At the same time, scholars have traced shifting geographies of development as a multi-centred unfolding of capitalist dynamics, entanglements and worldmaking projects, amidst failures and crises in/of development, sometimes discussed in terms of ‘abjection’. Negotiating thes…

  • The Russian invasion of Ukraine: Implications for politics, territory and governance

    Open Access•Klaus Dodds, Zak Taylor et al.•ARTICLE•Territory Politics Governance•2023•Cited by: 3•References: 14

    10.1080/21622671.2023.2256119

  • Mapping Chinese Diplomacy: Relational Contradictions and Spatial Tensions

    Fiona Mcconnell, Chih Yuan Woon•ARTICLE•Geopolitics•2023•Cited by: 13•References: 61

    This paper maps out contemporary discourses of Chinese diplomacy that have proliferated under the aegis of ‘major country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics’. We examine how these narratives are underpinned by webs of relationality that see China promoting equal and win–win partnerships with other state actors, yet are also defined by hierarchical premises for such diplomatic engagements. These relational contradictions are most clearly manif…

  • Th anniversary of Territory, Politics, Governance: Achievements and prospects

    Klaus Dodds, Vanesa Castán Broto et al.•ARTICLE•Territory Politics Governance•2022•References: 13

    Ten years ago, the founding Editor-in-Chief of Territory, Politics, Governance, Professor John Agnew, published an editorial in the inaugural issue of this journal. Launched by the Regional Studies Association, and enabled and supported by fellow editors and the publishing team, the vision of the journal was set out clearly and concisely: ‘The intersection between the three words in the journal’s name defines the central purpose of the journal: t…

  • Subterranean Displacements and Replacements in Singapore: Politics, Materialities, and Mentalities

    Chih Yuan Woon, Klaus Dodds•ARTICLE•Annals of the American…•2022•Cited by: 2•References: 34

    Geographical writings on displacement have highlighted how processes of dispossession are instrumental in rupturing the connection between peoples and place or territory. These studies, however, tend to privilege horizontal and surface-level inquiries, thereby neglecting the ways in which the volumetric and subterranean matter to the analytical sites and lived scales of displacement. Using the case of Singapore, where underground spaces have been…

  • Provincialising’ the Belt and Road Initiative: Theorising with Chinese narratives of the ‘Digital Silk Road’ (数字丝绸之路)

    Open Access•Chih Yuan Woon•ARTICLE•Asia Pacific Viewpoint•2021•Cited by: 14•References: 2

    This paper reflects on how the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) can contribute to more cosmopolitan forms of theory‐making and the diversification of knowledges. It focuses on emerging Chinese narratives of the Digital Silk Road (DSR) that cast the initiative as emblematic of an improved BRI 2.0 in the (post‐)pandemic era. With subterranean fibre‐optic cables and satellite systems constituting important components of the DSR, I argue that these Chi…

  • Subterranean geopolitics: Designing, digging, excavating and living

    Open Access•Chih Yuan Woon, Klaus Dodds•ARTICLE•Geoforum•2021•Cited by: 14•References: 10

  • The Covid-19 pandemic: Territorial, political and governance dimensions of the crisis

    Klaus Dodds, Vanesa Castán Broto et al.•ARTICLE•Territory Politics Governance•2020•Cited by: 32•References: 5

    As editors of Territory, Politics, Governance, we want first and foremost to express our solidarity with those affected and impacted directly by the COVID-19 pandemic. While none of us is untouched by the current public health crisis, what has unfolded thus far reveals only too clearly the inbuilt inequalities of contemporary capitalist society in terms of mortality, illness and recovery (for a pre-COVID-19 discussion of the United States, see Ca…

  • Observing’ the Arctic: Asia in the Arctic Council and Beyond

    Chih Yuan Woon, Klaus Dodds et al.•ARTICLE•Contemporary Southeast Asia•2020

    Attained SCOPUS CiteScore of 1.4 in 2019.Attained Journal Citation Report (JCR) Journal Impact Factor of 0.717 in 2019.SCImago Journal and Country Rank (SJR) 2019 for the Asiatic Region: Ranked 1st in Political Science and International Relations; 1st in History; and 3rd in Arts and Humanities.Ranked 19th by Google Scholar Metrics 2020 in the category of “Asian Studies and History”

  • Introduction: Research agendas raised by the Belt and Road Initiative

    Open Access•James Derrick Sidaway, Simon Rowedder et al.•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning C…•2020•Cited by: 29•References: 12

    We introduce this symposium on the politics and spaces of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, locating the papers as concept explorations resting on case studies that contextualize and historicize Belt and Road Initiative. In the case of the first paper that follows, this includes an exploration of the historiography of one of Belt and Road Initiative’s conditions of possibility, the Silk Road idea. We chart a burgeoning field of debate about Belt …

  • Subterranean geopolitics, affective atmosphere and peace: Negotiating China-Taiwan relations in the Zhaishan Tunnel

    Open Access•Chih Yuan Woon, Jiajie Zhang•ARTICLE•Geoforum•2020•Cited by: 9•References: 20

  • Framing the "Polar Silk Road" (冰上丝绸之路): Critical geopolitics, Chinese scholars and the (Re)Positionings of China's Arctic interests

    Open Access•Chih Yuan Woon•ARTICLE•Political Geography•2020•Cited by: 10•References: 23

  • Reordering China, Respacing the World: Belt and Road Initiative (一带一路) as an Emergent Geopolitical Culture

    Shaun Lin, James Derrick Sidaway et al.•ARTICLE•The Professional Geographer•2019

    Since it was set out in speeches by China’s Premier Xi Jinping in September and October 2013, discussion of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has proliferated in China. We argue that the scale and density of this discussion can usefully be conceptualized as an emergent geopolitical culture, reworking geopolitical narratives and spatial policies established in China in the second half of the twentieth century. In charting this emergence, we exami…

  • Translating Territory, Politics and Governance

    Chih Yuan Woon•ARTICLE•Territory Politics Governance•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 18

    In his critically acclaimed monograph The Birth of Territory, geographer Elden (2013a, p. 18) seeks to demonstrate that territory is far from the straightforward concept that people imagine it to b

  • Changing landscapes as text: Geography and national education in Singapore

    Open Access•Kamalini Ramdas, Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho et al.•ARTICLE•Area•2018•Cited by: 4•References: 10

    Textbooks are a repository for canonical material that serve as important guides for students as they embark on their journey of learning and discovery. In a discipline as varied as Geography, it is often challenging for authors to decide what to include. We negotiate these concerns as editors of a textbook for a course on Changing Landscapes of Singapore, which is taught primarily to non‐Geography majors who are required by the university to acq…

  • China's Contingencies: Critical Geopolitics, Chinese Exceptionalism and the Uses of History

    Chih Yuan Woon•ARTICLE•Geopolitics•2018•Cited by: 13

    This paper examines the intimate relationship between narratives emanating from China and their uses of Chinese history, and how such perspectives inform China’s geopolitical positioning and practices in lieu of its purported ‘rise’. Taking inspiration from the deconstructive impetus of critical geopolitics, this article contends that these historical claims to China’s rise constitute deterministic accounts, hinging on the notion of Chinese excep…

  • Geopolitics of the Environment

    Open Access•Chih Yuan Woon•CHAPTER•International Encyclopedia of…•2017

    This entry examines different geopolitical conceptions of the environment (from environmental determinism to current debates about the Anthropocene). It shows that power is fully implicated in how the environment is represented and used for specific geopolitical agendas/interests. In moving beyond critique, there is a focus on recent “planetary” thinking and how it enables critical geopolitics to advance socially and ecologically just geopolitica…

  • The precarious geopolitics of urban encounters in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)

    Shona Loong, Chih Yuan Woon•ARTICLE•Geografiska Annaler Series B…•2017•References: 33

    In the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 (9/11) attacks on America, grief has been co-opted to legitimize the fortification and fragmentation of cities. Whilst geographical works have emerged to critique the emotive infrastructures that underpin such urban-centric, militaristic initiatives, they fall short of providing positive interventions against this so-called ‘new military urbanism’. This paper addresses the aforementioned lacuna by taking …

  • Internet spaces and the (re)making of democratic politics: The case of Singapore’s 2011 General Election

    Open Access•Chih Yuan Woon•ARTICLE•GeoJournal•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 17

  • Chinese Narratives on "One Belt, One Road" (一带一路) in Geopolitical and Imperial Contexts

    James Derrick Sidaway, Chih Yuan Woon•ARTICLE•The Professional Geographer•2017•Cited by: 103•References: 7

    This article reviews Chinese-language writings on the ideas of a Silk Road Economic Belt and Maritime Silk Road that have proliferated in the last few years, now under the aegis of and visualized as One Belt, One Road (一带一路). We examine how these narratives articulate with geopolitical and strategic ones in China before exploring the history of the idea of Silk Road(s). An excavation of their origins in nineteenth-century German imperial geograph…

  • Children, Critical Geopolitics, and Peace: Mapping and Mobilizing Children's Hopes for Peace in the Philippines

    Chih Yuan Woon•ARTICLE•Annals of the American…•2017•Cited by: 5•References: 44

    This article focuses on the role and agency of children in shaping the trajectories and outcomes of peace in Mindanao in the southern Philippines. Through the analysis of children's narratives that are articulated around their vision maps of peace, I argue that such cartographic representations and dialogues of the everyday open up opportunities for them to critically reflect on their understandings of and hopes for peace. This essentially contri…

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  • Chinese Narratives on "One Belt, One Road" (一带一路) in Geopolitical and Imperial Contexts

    James Derrick Sidaway, Chih Yuan Woon•ARTICLE•The Professional Geographer•2017•Cited by: 103•References: 7

    This article reviews Chinese-language writings on the ideas of a Silk Road Economic Belt and Maritime Silk Road that have proliferated in the last few years, now under the aegis of and visualized as One Belt, One Road (一带一路). We examine how these narratives articulate with geopolitical and strategic ones in China before exploring the history of the idea of Silk Road(s). An excavation of their origins in nineteenth-century German imperial geograph…

  • Planetary postcolonialism

    Open Access•James Derrick Sidaway, Chih Yuan Woon et al.•ARTICLE•Singapore Journal of Tropical…•2014•Cited by: 40•References: 29

    This position paper aims to frame and supplement other papers in this special issue on advancing postcolonial geographies. We offer five pathways for postcolonial geography: (i) narrating the planetary (which then configures the other paths), (ii) acknowledging other postcolonialisms, (iii) planetary indigeneity, (iv) seeing like an empire and (v) problematizing translations. These intersect and none are exhaustive. Nor are they completed routes.…

  • The Covid-19 pandemic: Territorial, political and governance dimensions of the crisis

    Klaus Dodds, Vanesa Castán Broto et al.•ARTICLE•Territory Politics Governance•2020•Cited by: 32•References: 5

    As editors of Territory, Politics, Governance, we want first and foremost to express our solidarity with those affected and impacted directly by the COVID-19 pandemic. While none of us is untouched by the current public health crisis, what has unfolded thus far reveals only too clearly the inbuilt inequalities of contemporary capitalist society in terms of mortality, illness and recovery (for a pre-COVID-19 discussion of the United States, see Ca…

  • Introduction: Research agendas raised by the Belt and Road Initiative

    Open Access•James Derrick Sidaway, Simon Rowedder et al.•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning C…•2020•Cited by: 29•References: 12

    We introduce this symposium on the politics and spaces of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, locating the papers as concept explorations resting on case studies that contextualize and historicize Belt and Road Initiative. In the case of the first paper that follows, this includes an exploration of the historiography of one of Belt and Road Initiative’s conditions of possibility, the Silk Road idea. We chart a burgeoning field of debate about Belt …

  • Area studies and geography: Trajectories and manifesto

    Open Access•James Derrick Sidaway, Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho et al.•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning D…•2016•Cited by: 26•References: 53

    We introduce the following set of essays on reformatting the relationship between area studies and geography and reflect on our individual and collective negotiation of this relationship. This leads us to revisit some key area studies' controversies and agendas, notably strategies for comparison. Drawing on the work of Benedict Anderson and other comparatively minded scholars, we advocate staging comparisons in terms of difference/similarity, exp…

  • For 'emotional fieldwork' in critical geopolitical research on violence and terrorism

    Open Access•Chih Yuan Woon•ARTICLE•Political Geography•2013•Cited by: 18•References: 35

  • Precarious geopolitics and the possibilities of nonviolence

    Open Access•Chih Yuan Woon•ARTICLE•Progress in Human Geography•2013•Cited by: 16•References: 26

    This paper examines the deployment of nonviolence within critical geopolitics. It contends that geographers’ engagements with nonviolence lack grounding, often sliding towards ethical appeals for people’s responsive commitments. Building on Judith Butler’s notion of ‘precarious lives’, I underscore the emotional impetuses through which nonviolence can be harnessed as a concrete pathway for social change. ‘Precarious geopolitics’ as I call it, rep…

  • Undoing violence, unbounding precarity: Beyond the frames of terror in the Philippines

    Open Access•Chih Yuan Woon•ARTICLE•Geoforum•2011•Cited by: 16•References: 19

  • Provincialising’ the Belt and Road Initiative: Theorising with Chinese narratives of the ‘Digital Silk Road’ (数字丝绸之路)

    Open Access•Chih Yuan Woon•ARTICLE•Asia Pacific Viewpoint•2021•Cited by: 14•References: 2

    This paper reflects on how the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) can contribute to more cosmopolitan forms of theory‐making and the diversification of knowledges. It focuses on emerging Chinese narratives of the Digital Silk Road (DSR) that cast the initiative as emblematic of an improved BRI 2.0 in the (post‐)pandemic era. With subterranean fibre‐optic cables and satellite systems constituting important components of the DSR, I argue that these Chi…

  • Subterranean geopolitics: Designing, digging, excavating and living

    Open Access•Chih Yuan Woon, Klaus Dodds•ARTICLE•Geoforum•2021•Cited by: 14•References: 10

  • Mapping Chinese Diplomacy: Relational Contradictions and Spatial Tensions

    Fiona Mcconnell, Chih Yuan Woon•ARTICLE•Geopolitics•2023•Cited by: 13•References: 61

    This paper maps out contemporary discourses of Chinese diplomacy that have proliferated under the aegis of ‘major country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics’. We examine how these narratives are underpinned by webs of relationality that see China promoting equal and win–win partnerships with other state actors, yet are also defined by hierarchical premises for such diplomatic engagements. These relational contradictions are most clearly manif…

  • China's Contingencies: Critical Geopolitics, Chinese Exceptionalism and the Uses of History

    Chih Yuan Woon•ARTICLE•Geopolitics•2018•Cited by: 13

    This paper examines the intimate relationship between narratives emanating from China and their uses of Chinese history, and how such perspectives inform China’s geopolitical positioning and practices in lieu of its purported ‘rise’. Taking inspiration from the deconstructive impetus of critical geopolitics, this article contends that these historical claims to China’s rise constitute deterministic accounts, hinging on the notion of Chinese excep…

  • Transecting Security and Space in Phnom Penh

    Open Access•James Derrick Sidaway, Till F Paasche et al.•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning A…•2014•Cited by: 12•References: 64

    Our paper examines everyday interactions of money, power, and security in Cambodia's capital city of Phnom Penh, informed by a series of transects and interviews. When Phnom Penh hosted the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in April 2012, Prime Minister Hun Sen declared that "Cambodia is not for sale" in an angry exchange with journalists who had quizzed him about China's influence. However, the sale and enclosure of Cambo…

  • Protest is Just a Click Away!” Responses to the 2003 Iraq War on a Bulletin Board System in China

    Open Access•Chih Yuan Woon•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning D…•2011•Cited by: 12•References: 39

    The Internet as an important cultural medium in the (re)production of geopolitical affairs has increasingly elicited close scrutiny by scholars working in popular geopolitics. However, recent exhortations have appealed for more expansive geographical imaginations to extend such research outside Anglo-American contexts. This paper focuses on one influential Mandarin bulletin board system (BBS) in China, the Qiangguo Luntan (QGLT), by critically an…

  • Peopling’ geographies of peace: The role of the military in peacebuilding in the Philippines

    Open Access•Chih Yuan Woon•ARTICLE•Transactions of the Institute of…•2014•Cited by: 11•References: 38

    Geographical forays into peace research have flourished in recent years. Without denying the value of these works in highlighting the discipline's normative and practical contributions towards peace, this paper calls for further interrogations into the peoples who are involved in the (re)making of peaceful geographies. Using the case study of the military in the southern Philippines, I showcase the efforts of a particular group of soldiers in har…

  • Framing the "Polar Silk Road" (冰上丝绸之路): Critical geopolitics, Chinese scholars and the (Re)Positionings of China's Arctic interests

    Open Access•Chih Yuan Woon•ARTICLE•Political Geography•2020•Cited by: 10•References: 23

  • Subterranean geopolitics, affective atmosphere and peace: Negotiating China-Taiwan relations in the Zhaishan Tunnel

    Open Access•Chih Yuan Woon, Jiajie Zhang•ARTICLE•Geoforum•2020•Cited by: 9•References: 20

  • Popular Geopolitics, Audiences and Identities: Reading the 'War on Terror' in the Philippines

    Chih Yuan Woon•ARTICLE•Geopolitics•2014•Cited by: 9

    Audience research has traditionally been neglected within the subfield of popular geopolitics. However in recent years, geographers are increasingly focusing on the making of geopolitical meanings by audiences as they consume popular culture and related texts. Drawing on recent assemblage thinking in geopolitics, this paper argues that audiences form part of the animators of a network that links the human body with places, environments, objects a…

  • Children, Critical Geopolitics, and Peace: Mapping and Mobilizing Children's Hopes for Peace in the Philippines

    Chih Yuan Woon•ARTICLE•Annals of the American…•2017•Cited by: 5•References: 44

    This article focuses on the role and agency of children in shaping the trajectories and outcomes of peace in Mindanao in the southern Philippines. Through the analysis of children's narratives that are articulated around their vision maps of peace, I argue that such cartographic representations and dialogues of the everyday open up opportunities for them to critically reflect on their understandings of and hopes for peace. This essentially contri…

  • Changing landscapes as text: Geography and national education in Singapore

    Open Access•Kamalini Ramdas, Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho et al.•ARTICLE•Area•2018•Cited by: 4•References: 10

    Textbooks are a repository for canonical material that serve as important guides for students as they embark on their journey of learning and discovery. In a discipline as varied as Geography, it is often challenging for authors to decide what to include. We negotiate these concerns as editors of a textbook for a course on Changing Landscapes of Singapore, which is taught primarily to non‐Geography majors who are required by the university to acq…

  • The Russian invasion of Ukraine: Implications for politics, territory and governance

    Open Access•Klaus Dodds, Zak Taylor et al.•ARTICLE•Territory Politics Governance•2023•Cited by: 3•References: 14

    10.1080/21622671.2023.2256119

  • Deglobalization and China's Visions for Reconfiguring Development Space

    Chih Yuan Woon, James Derrick Sidaway•ARTICLE•Geopolitics•2025•Cited by: 2•References: 56

    Recent years have seen proliferating media references to ‘deglobalization’, frequently drawing historical analogies with periods of crisis and dislocation, such as the 1930s. At the same time, scholars have traced shifting geographies of development as a multi-centred unfolding of capitalist dynamics, entanglements and worldmaking projects, amidst failures and crises in/of development, sometimes discussed in terms of ‘abjection’. Negotiating thes…

  • Subterranean Displacements and Replacements in Singapore: Politics, Materialities, and Mentalities

    Chih Yuan Woon, Klaus Dodds•ARTICLE•Annals of the American…•2022•Cited by: 2•References: 34

    Geographical writings on displacement have highlighted how processes of dispossession are instrumental in rupturing the connection between peoples and place or territory. These studies, however, tend to privilege horizontal and surface-level inquiries, thereby neglecting the ways in which the volumetric and subterranean matter to the analytical sites and lived scales of displacement. Using the case of Singapore, where underground spaces have been…

  • The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography

    Open Access•Anna Secor, Joanne Sharp et al.•BOOK•The Wiley Blackwell Companion to…•2025•Cited by: 1

  • Introduction: Explanation, critique and critics of geoeconomics

    Open Access•Felix Mallin, James Derrick Sidaway et al.•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning A…•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 22

    Geoeconomics, strategist Edward Luttwak affirmed in 1990, represented the waning of a geopolitical era and the ascent of a 'logic of conflict with the methods of commerce'. In the decades since, numerous variations on his argument have enjoyed wide resonance. Geoeconomics became a term of reference for power contests from the realms of commercial warfare and infrastructure expansionism to the sculpting of new military and economic blocs. Nonethel…

  • Undoing violence, unbounding precarity: Beyond the frames of terror in the Philippines

    Open Access•Chih Yuan Woon•ARTICLE•Geoforum•2011•Cited by: 16•References: 19

  • Protest is Just a Click Away!” Responses to the 2003 Iraq War on a Bulletin Board System in China

    Open Access•Chih Yuan Woon•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning D…•2011•Cited by: 12•References: 39

    The Internet as an important cultural medium in the (re)production of geopolitical affairs has increasingly elicited close scrutiny by scholars working in popular geopolitics. However, recent exhortations have appealed for more expansive geographical imaginations to extend such research outside Anglo-American contexts. This paper focuses on one influential Mandarin bulletin board system (BBS) in China, the Qiangguo Luntan (QGLT), by critically an…

  • Changing Landscapes of Singapore: Old Tensions, New Discoveries

    Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho, Chih Yuan Woon et al.•BOOK•Changing Landscapes of Singapore•2013

  • Precarious geopolitics and the possibilities of nonviolence

    Open Access•Chih Yuan Woon•ARTICLE•Progress in Human Geography•2013•Cited by: 16•References: 26

    This paper examines the deployment of nonviolence within critical geopolitics. It contends that geographers’ engagements with nonviolence lack grounding, often sliding towards ethical appeals for people’s responsive commitments. Building on Judith Butler’s notion of ‘precarious lives’, I underscore the emotional impetuses through which nonviolence can be harnessed as a concrete pathway for social change. ‘Precarious geopolitics’ as I call it, rep…

  • For 'emotional fieldwork' in critical geopolitical research on violence and terrorism

    Open Access•Chih Yuan Woon•ARTICLE•Political Geography•2013•Cited by: 18•References: 35

  • (En)Countering Asia In Africa: Opportunities, Challenges and the Geopolitics of Engagement

    Chih Yuan Woon•ARTICLE•Geopolitics•2013•Cited by: 1

  • Translating territory

    Open Access•Chih Yuan Woon•ARTICLE•Dialogues in Human Geography•2014•Cited by: 1

  • Peopling’ geographies of peace: The role of the military in peacebuilding in the Philippines

    Open Access•Chih Yuan Woon•ARTICLE•Transactions of the Institute of…•2014•Cited by: 11•References: 38

    Geographical forays into peace research have flourished in recent years. Without denying the value of these works in highlighting the discipline's normative and practical contributions towards peace, this paper calls for further interrogations into the peoples who are involved in the (re)making of peaceful geographies. Using the case study of the military in the southern Philippines, I showcase the efforts of a particular group of soldiers in har…

  • Planetary postcolonialism

    Open Access•James Derrick Sidaway, Chih Yuan Woon et al.•ARTICLE•Singapore Journal of Tropical…•2014•Cited by: 40•References: 29

    This position paper aims to frame and supplement other papers in this special issue on advancing postcolonial geographies. We offer five pathways for postcolonial geography: (i) narrating the planetary (which then configures the other paths), (ii) acknowledging other postcolonialisms, (iii) planetary indigeneity, (iv) seeing like an empire and (v) problematizing translations. These intersect and none are exhaustive. Nor are they completed routes.…

  • Transecting Security and Space in Phnom Penh

    Open Access•James Derrick Sidaway, Till F Paasche et al.•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning A…•2014•Cited by: 12•References: 64

    Our paper examines everyday interactions of money, power, and security in Cambodia's capital city of Phnom Penh, informed by a series of transects and interviews. When Phnom Penh hosted the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in April 2012, Prime Minister Hun Sen declared that "Cambodia is not for sale" in an angry exchange with journalists who had quizzed him about China's influence. However, the sale and enclosure of Cambo…

  • Popular Geopolitics, Audiences and Identities: Reading the 'War on Terror' in the Philippines

    Chih Yuan Woon•ARTICLE•Geopolitics•2014•Cited by: 9

    Audience research has traditionally been neglected within the subfield of popular geopolitics. However in recent years, geographers are increasingly focusing on the making of geopolitical meanings by audiences as they consume popular culture and related texts. Drawing on recent assemblage thinking in geopolitics, this paper argues that audiences form part of the animators of a network that links the human body with places, environments, objects a…

  • Postcolonialism

    Open Access•Chih Yuan Woon•OTHER•The Wiley Blackwell Companion to…•2015

    This chapter responds to Young's call for attention towards contributions of political geography to understand these contemporary (re)configurations of the postcolonial. The chapter maps out genealogy and development of postcolonialism as a field of study, in order to elucidate the impacts of postcolonial theory on political geography. This provides the basis to illuminate and account for the different research agendas of postcolonial political g…

  • Geopolitics

    Open Access•Klaus Dodds, Chih Yuan Woon•CHAPTER•International Encyclopedia of the…•2015

  • Area studies and geography: Trajectories and manifesto

    Open Access•James Derrick Sidaway, Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho et al.•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning D…•2016•Cited by: 26•References: 53

    We introduce the following set of essays on reformatting the relationship between area studies and geography and reflect on our individual and collective negotiation of this relationship. This leads us to revisit some key area studies' controversies and agendas, notably strategies for comparison. Drawing on the work of Benedict Anderson and other comparatively minded scholars, we advocate staging comparisons in terms of difference/similarity, exp…

  • Geopolitics of the Environment

    Open Access•Chih Yuan Woon•CHAPTER•International Encyclopedia of…•2017

    This entry examines different geopolitical conceptions of the environment (from environmental determinism to current debates about the Anthropocene). It shows that power is fully implicated in how the environment is represented and used for specific geopolitical agendas/interests. In moving beyond critique, there is a focus on recent “planetary” thinking and how it enables critical geopolitics to advance socially and ecologically just geopolitica…

  • The precarious geopolitics of urban encounters in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)

    Shona Loong, Chih Yuan Woon•ARTICLE•Geografiska Annaler Series B…•2017•References: 33

    In the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 (9/11) attacks on America, grief has been co-opted to legitimize the fortification and fragmentation of cities. Whilst geographical works have emerged to critique the emotive infrastructures that underpin such urban-centric, militaristic initiatives, they fall short of providing positive interventions against this so-called ‘new military urbanism’. This paper addresses the aforementioned lacuna by taking …

  • Internet spaces and the (re)making of democratic politics: The case of Singapore’s 2011 General Election

    Open Access•Chih Yuan Woon•ARTICLE•GeoJournal•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 17

  • Chinese Narratives on "One Belt, One Road" (一带一路) in Geopolitical and Imperial Contexts

    James Derrick Sidaway, Chih Yuan Woon•ARTICLE•The Professional Geographer•2017•Cited by: 103•References: 7

    This article reviews Chinese-language writings on the ideas of a Silk Road Economic Belt and Maritime Silk Road that have proliferated in the last few years, now under the aegis of and visualized as One Belt, One Road (一带一路). We examine how these narratives articulate with geopolitical and strategic ones in China before exploring the history of the idea of Silk Road(s). An excavation of their origins in nineteenth-century German imperial geograph…

  • Children, Critical Geopolitics, and Peace: Mapping and Mobilizing Children's Hopes for Peace in the Philippines

    Chih Yuan Woon•ARTICLE•Annals of the American…•2017•Cited by: 5•References: 44

    This article focuses on the role and agency of children in shaping the trajectories and outcomes of peace in Mindanao in the southern Philippines. Through the analysis of children's narratives that are articulated around their vision maps of peace, I argue that such cartographic representations and dialogues of the everyday open up opportunities for them to critically reflect on their understandings of and hopes for peace. This essentially contri…

  • Changing landscapes as text: Geography and national education in Singapore

    Open Access•Kamalini Ramdas, Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho et al.•ARTICLE•Area•2018•Cited by: 4•References: 10

    Textbooks are a repository for canonical material that serve as important guides for students as they embark on their journey of learning and discovery. In a discipline as varied as Geography, it is often challenging for authors to decide what to include. We negotiate these concerns as editors of a textbook for a course on Changing Landscapes of Singapore, which is taught primarily to non‐Geography majors who are required by the university to acq…

  • China's Contingencies: Critical Geopolitics, Chinese Exceptionalism and the Uses of History

    Chih Yuan Woon•ARTICLE•Geopolitics•2018•Cited by: 13

    This paper examines the intimate relationship between narratives emanating from China and their uses of Chinese history, and how such perspectives inform China’s geopolitical positioning and practices in lieu of its purported ‘rise’. Taking inspiration from the deconstructive impetus of critical geopolitics, this article contends that these historical claims to China’s rise constitute deterministic accounts, hinging on the notion of Chinese excep…

  • Reordering China, Respacing the World: Belt and Road Initiative (一带一路) as an Emergent Geopolitical Culture

    Shaun Lin, James Derrick Sidaway et al.•ARTICLE•The Professional Geographer•2019

    Since it was set out in speeches by China’s Premier Xi Jinping in September and October 2013, discussion of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has proliferated in China. We argue that the scale and density of this discussion can usefully be conceptualized as an emergent geopolitical culture, reworking geopolitical narratives and spatial policies established in China in the second half of the twentieth century. In charting this emergence, we exami…

  • Translating Territory, Politics and Governance

    Chih Yuan Woon•ARTICLE•Territory Politics Governance•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 18

    In his critically acclaimed monograph The Birth of Territory, geographer Elden (2013a, p. 18) seeks to demonstrate that territory is far from the straightforward concept that people imagine it to b

  • The Covid-19 pandemic: Territorial, political and governance dimensions of the crisis

    Klaus Dodds, Vanesa Castán Broto et al.•ARTICLE•Territory Politics Governance•2020•Cited by: 32•References: 5

    As editors of Territory, Politics, Governance, we want first and foremost to express our solidarity with those affected and impacted directly by the COVID-19 pandemic. While none of us is untouched by the current public health crisis, what has unfolded thus far reveals only too clearly the inbuilt inequalities of contemporary capitalist society in terms of mortality, illness and recovery (for a pre-COVID-19 discussion of the United States, see Ca…

  • Observing’ the Arctic: Asia in the Arctic Council and Beyond

    Chih Yuan Woon, Klaus Dodds et al.•ARTICLE•Contemporary Southeast Asia•2020

    Attained SCOPUS CiteScore of 1.4 in 2019.Attained Journal Citation Report (JCR) Journal Impact Factor of 0.717 in 2019.SCImago Journal and Country Rank (SJR) 2019 for the Asiatic Region: Ranked 1st in Political Science and International Relations; 1st in History; and 3rd in Arts and Humanities.Ranked 19th by Google Scholar Metrics 2020 in the category of “Asian Studies and History”

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