Harvey Neo
Biographic Data
| ID | 358664 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harvey Neo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harvey |
| FAMILY NAME | Neo |
| SIGNATURE | NEO H |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4357-3808 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 227 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Private cooling, urban heat, and the limits of collective climate action in tropical cities
Urban heat increasingly shapes energy demand, everyday behaviour, and the feasibility of collective climate action in cities. A common assumption is that direct exposure to heat strengthens public support for mitigation and adaptation. Yet in many cities, this relationship may be altered by widespread reliance on private cooling. Using data from Singapore—a dense tropical city with near-universal access to air-conditioning (AC)—this study examine…
Multi-level climate governance or contested carbon exceptionalism? The (re)making of a low-carbon city in Shenzhen, China
Looking Back at 25 Years of Participatory Budgeting in Asia: A Systematic Review of Trends, Challenges, and Best Practices
‘Born to Run’: Remembering C.P. Pow
C.P. Pow was my confidant, colleague and (occasional) collaborator for more than 20 years. He had fought a valiant and dignified battle with an aggressive cancer but ultimately succumbed to it in July 2021. I will reminisce a few of the little known traits of Pow which had shaped him to become the conscientious, obliging and humble academic that he was known for
Environmental governance with 'Chinese characteristics' and citizenship participation in Nanjing
Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion: Community Gardens as Spaces of Responsibility
Geographers have a sustained interest in urban community gardens because such spaces provide a meaningful lens to interrogate the complexities of living at the intersection of nature–society relationships. Most community gardens strive to perform the dual functions of reconnecting urban residents with nature and strengthening the community. More recently, in the context of neoliberal urban restructuring, community gardens have also been viewed as…
Encountering enchantment: Stories from the street football court in Singapore
While enchantment has been used productively to think through the geographies of social encounter, extant research – drawing largely from cases in the West – has reinforced a celebratory notion of enchantment, characterized by egalitarianism and serendipity. In this paper we draw ethnographically on encounters between Malay and Chinese users of two street football courts in Singapore, a non-Western context where principles of public interaction c…
The Oil Palm Complex: Smallholders, Agribusiness and the State in Indonesia and Malaysia
Ethical consumption, meaningful substitution and the challenges of vegetarianism advocacy
Vegetarianism is viewed by its advocates as ethical food consumption par excellence. Yet the steady, albeit modest, growth in vegetarians worldwide is paradoxically set against an increase in global meat consumption. This study draws on the literature of ethical consumption to illuminate the practical challenges in vegetarianism advocacy. Research on ethical food consumption focuses on three main lines of inquiry, namely how is ethical food defin…
Modelling green urbanism in C hina
This paper examines how the modelling of green urbanism is spatially manifested in flagship eco‐city projects such as the S ino‐ S ingapore Tianjin eco‐city ( SSTE ) project. As part of a multi‐scalar process that taps into a host of mobile policy networks and ‘quick fix’ urban policy solutions that circulate around the world, such eco‐flagship prestige projects serve as powerful sites for the convergence of the boundaries between the social and …
Political Ecologies of Meat
In the spring of 2014, one of the authors (Paolo) was visiting the Green Market on Union Square, NYC, one of the most renowned farmers’ markets in the United States, performing a direct connection between producers and consumers of food, allegedly alternative to the mass retail channel (Tiemann, 2008), but also promoting what Sharon Zukin terms, from a critical standpoint, ‘the consumption of authenticity’ (2008). Exactly in the middle of the squ…
The Economic Geographies of Aquaculture
Fish protein is projected to make up increasing proportions of our protein intake in the years to come with increasing supply coming from aquaculture. Despite its fast increasing economic importance, there is a relative paucity of research on aquaculture from the standpoint of economic geography. This paper contributes to this literature by first reviewing the socio-economics of certification of fish and the role of aquaculture in economic develo…
Contesting captive cetaceans: (Il)legal spaces and the nature of dolphins in urban Singapore
Drawing on the debate over dolphin captivity in Singapore, we examine the ways in which human–animal relationships are contested. Departing from most animal geography studies which often focused on the conflictual spatial transgressions of animals into human spaces, we use the idea of 'captivity' as a heuristic to posit that human–animal relationships are necessarily moral, spatially enmeshed in contestations over what is (un)natural and increasi…
Seeing Red Over Green: Contesting Urban Sustainabilities in China
The urban sustainability agenda is engaged at some levels with the two concepts of ecological modernisation and urban entrepreneurialism. While they share certain important commonalities (for example, the emphasis on what is normatively understood as ‘right’ policy-making), each has largely progressed on its own intellectual trajectory. It is suggested that the concepts of ecological modernisation and urban entrepreneurialism are crystallised and…
“They hate pigs, Chinese farmers … everything!” Beastly Racialization in Multiethnic Malaysia
This paper details the construction of the pig and the pig industry in Malaysia. It argues that a pattern of “animal‐linked racialization” continually polices the boundary between the dominant, elite Malay‐Muslim hegemony and the comparatively less powerful Chinese pig farmers. Often subtle and implicit, such beastly racialization, drawing frequently from religious and nationalist tropes, renders visible the taboo subjects of race and racism in M…
Worlds of Food: Place, Power, and Provenance in the Food Chain
Foreign direct investment, institutional context and the changing polish pig industry
The world's meat market has had tremendous growth in the past decades. Global meat producers, particularly in developed economies, have grown bigger through expansion, mergers and acquisitions. The livestock markets in less developed countries are particularly the prime targets for investments by these producers. This article looks at foreign direct investment in a transitional economy, using Poland's pig industry as the empirical case study. It …
The Potential of Large-Scale Urban Waste Recycling: A Case Study of the National Recycling Programme in Singapore
The increasing amount of municipal solid waste is a perennial challenge for authorities, and recycling is seen as one of the key strategies to alleviate this problem. Earlier literature has focused on the factors that influence the success (or failure) of urban recycling schemes with much work focusing on how the attitudes of households and consumers make or break recycling programs. However, an ambitious national level recycling program is rarel…
Geographies of Subcontracting
At its simplest, 'subcontracting' occurs when a company outsources some of its operations and functions to others. These contracts include production, service support, and in some cases, research and design. Yet, the nature of subcontracting as a mode of economic production varies dramatically across different industries, spatial scales, places, and impacts. In view of the immense scope of this topic, in this article, I hope to highlight and illu…
Monkey business: Human-animal conflicts in urban Singapore
Ongoing human–long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) conflicts in Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Singapore, have seen native macaques significantly affected, as residential development encroaches into animals' habitat, destroying important wildlife corridors. The search for a more humane treatment of these transgressive animals can be seen as an attempt to extend and include non-human animals within humanistic notions of ethics and care, in the p…
Unpacking the Postpolitics of Golf Course Provision in Singapore
The number of golf courses in the Southeast Asian city-state of Singapore has grown dramatically in the last few decades. The 1990s was particularly significant both in terms of the number of new courses that was built and the intensity of public opposition against these courses. This article outlines the politics between the opponents and proponents of golf courses based on two contrasting case studies. It highlights the predominant representati…
Institutions, cultural politics and the destabilizing Malaysian pig industry
Household income diversification and the production of local meat: The prospect of small‐scale pig farming in Southern Yunnan, China
This paper assesses the viability of small scale, specialised livestock farming led by the local government, to alleviate rural household poverty. In so doing, it reflects upon the prospect of niche livestock farming in an age where, ironically, demand for meat is ever‐rising. It also highlights the ambiguous role that local government plays in poverty alleviation. The specific case study is on the Jinuo ethnic minority in Xishuangbanna autonomou…
Taking Southeast Asia to Market: Commodities, Nature, and People in the Neoliberal Age - Edited by Joseph Nevins and Nancy Lee Peluso
10.1111/j.1944-8287.2009.01040.x
Geography of Power: The Making of Global Economic Policy – By Richard Peet
10.1111/j.1467-9493.2008.00345_6.x
Monkey business: Human-animal conflicts in urban Singapore
Ongoing human–long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) conflicts in Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Singapore, have seen native macaques significantly affected, as residential development encroaches into animals' habitat, destroying important wildlife corridors. The search for a more humane treatment of these transgressive animals can be seen as an attempt to extend and include non-human animals within humanistic notions of ethics and care, in the p…
Seeing Red Over Green: Contesting Urban Sustainabilities in China
The urban sustainability agenda is engaged at some levels with the two concepts of ecological modernisation and urban entrepreneurialism. While they share certain important commonalities (for example, the emphasis on what is normatively understood as ‘right’ policy-making), each has largely progressed on its own intellectual trajectory. It is suggested that the concepts of ecological modernisation and urban entrepreneurialism are crystallised and…
Political Ecologies of Meat
In the spring of 2014, one of the authors (Paolo) was visiting the Green Market on Union Square, NYC, one of the most renowned farmers’ markets in the United States, performing a direct connection between producers and consumers of food, allegedly alternative to the mass retail channel (Tiemann, 2008), but also promoting what Sharon Zukin terms, from a critical standpoint, ‘the consumption of authenticity’ (2008). Exactly in the middle of the squ…
Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion: Community Gardens as Spaces of Responsibility
Geographers have a sustained interest in urban community gardens because such spaces provide a meaningful lens to interrogate the complexities of living at the intersection of nature–society relationships. Most community gardens strive to perform the dual functions of reconnecting urban residents with nature and strengthening the community. More recently, in the context of neoliberal urban restructuring, community gardens have also been viewed as…
Modelling green urbanism in C hina
This paper examines how the modelling of green urbanism is spatially manifested in flagship eco‐city projects such as the S ino‐ S ingapore Tianjin eco‐city ( SSTE ) project. As part of a multi‐scalar process that taps into a host of mobile policy networks and ‘quick fix’ urban policy solutions that circulate around the world, such eco‐flagship prestige projects serve as powerful sites for the convergence of the boundaries between the social and …
Contesting captive cetaceans: (Il)legal spaces and the nature of dolphins in urban Singapore
Drawing on the debate over dolphin captivity in Singapore, we examine the ways in which human–animal relationships are contested. Departing from most animal geography studies which often focused on the conflictual spatial transgressions of animals into human spaces, we use the idea of 'captivity' as a heuristic to posit that human–animal relationships are necessarily moral, spatially enmeshed in contestations over what is (un)natural and increasi…
Unpacking the Postpolitics of Golf Course Provision in Singapore
The number of golf courses in the Southeast Asian city-state of Singapore has grown dramatically in the last few decades. The 1990s was particularly significant both in terms of the number of new courses that was built and the intensity of public opposition against these courses. This article outlines the politics between the opponents and proponents of golf courses based on two contrasting case studies. It highlights the predominant representati…
Challenging the developmental state: Nature conservation in Singapore
Nature conservation efforts are often reactive to encroaching development plans and systematic conservation planning that is integral with development is not only uncommon, but is often fraught with difficulties even where it is actually attempted. Such obstacles to conservation are especially apparent in developmental states where state legitimacy is largely derived from the state's ability to develop the country. Among other things, development…
The Potential of Large-Scale Urban Waste Recycling: A Case Study of the National Recycling Programme in Singapore
The increasing amount of municipal solid waste is a perennial challenge for authorities, and recycling is seen as one of the key strategies to alleviate this problem. Earlier literature has focused on the factors that influence the success (or failure) of urban recycling schemes with much work focusing on how the attitudes of households and consumers make or break recycling programs. However, an ambitious national level recycling program is rarel…
Encountering enchantment: Stories from the street football court in Singapore
While enchantment has been used productively to think through the geographies of social encounter, extant research – drawing largely from cases in the West – has reinforced a celebratory notion of enchantment, characterized by egalitarianism and serendipity. In this paper we draw ethnographically on encounters between Malay and Chinese users of two street football courts in Singapore, a non-Western context where principles of public interaction c…
Institutions, cultural politics and the destabilizing Malaysian pig industry
Ethical consumption, meaningful substitution and the challenges of vegetarianism advocacy
Vegetarianism is viewed by its advocates as ethical food consumption par excellence. Yet the steady, albeit modest, growth in vegetarians worldwide is paradoxically set against an increase in global meat consumption. This study draws on the literature of ethical consumption to illuminate the practical challenges in vegetarianism advocacy. Research on ethical food consumption focuses on three main lines of inquiry, namely how is ethical food defin…
Household income diversification and the production of local meat: The prospect of small‐scale pig farming in Southern Yunnan, China
This paper assesses the viability of small scale, specialised livestock farming led by the local government, to alleviate rural household poverty. In so doing, it reflects upon the prospect of niche livestock farming in an age where, ironically, demand for meat is ever‐rising. It also highlights the ambiguous role that local government plays in poverty alleviation. The specific case study is on the Jinuo ethnic minority in Xishuangbanna autonomou…
Shades of Green, Fields of Gold: Representations, discourse and the politics of golf in Singapore
10.1080/0142639022000023952
The Economic Geographies of Aquaculture
Fish protein is projected to make up increasing proportions of our protein intake in the years to come with increasing supply coming from aquaculture. Despite its fast increasing economic importance, there is a relative paucity of research on aquaculture from the standpoint of economic geography. This paper contributes to this literature by first reviewing the socio-economics of certification of fish and the role of aquaculture in economic develo…
Foreign direct investment, institutional context and the changing polish pig industry
The world's meat market has had tremendous growth in the past decades. Global meat producers, particularly in developed economies, have grown bigger through expansion, mergers and acquisitions. The livestock markets in less developed countries are particularly the prime targets for investments by these producers. This article looks at foreign direct investment in a transitional economy, using Poland's pig industry as the empirical case study. It …
Geographies of Subcontracting
At its simplest, 'subcontracting' occurs when a company outsources some of its operations and functions to others. These contracts include production, service support, and in some cases, research and design. Yet, the nature of subcontracting as a mode of economic production varies dramatically across different industries, spatial scales, places, and impacts. In view of the immense scope of this topic, in this article, I hope to highlight and illu…
Sustaining the unsustainable? Golf in urban Singapore
International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology
Shades of Green, Fields of Gold: Representations, discourse and the politics of golf in Singapore
10.1080/0142639022000023952
Challenging the developmental state: Nature conservation in Singapore
Nature conservation efforts are often reactive to encroaching development plans and systematic conservation planning that is integral with development is not only uncommon, but is often fraught with difficulties even where it is actually attempted. Such obstacles to conservation are especially apparent in developmental states where state legitimacy is largely derived from the state's ability to develop the country. Among other things, development…
Geography of Power: The Making of Global Economic Policy – By Richard Peet
10.1111/j.1467-9493.2008.00345_6.x
Institutions, cultural politics and the destabilizing Malaysian pig industry
Household income diversification and the production of local meat: The prospect of small‐scale pig farming in Southern Yunnan, China
This paper assesses the viability of small scale, specialised livestock farming led by the local government, to alleviate rural household poverty. In so doing, it reflects upon the prospect of niche livestock farming in an age where, ironically, demand for meat is ever‐rising. It also highlights the ambiguous role that local government plays in poverty alleviation. The specific case study is on the Jinuo ethnic minority in Xishuangbanna autonomou…
Taking Southeast Asia to Market: Commodities, Nature, and People in the Neoliberal Age - Edited by Joseph Nevins and Nancy Lee Peluso
10.1111/j.1944-8287.2009.01040.x
The Potential of Large-Scale Urban Waste Recycling: A Case Study of the National Recycling Programme in Singapore
The increasing amount of municipal solid waste is a perennial challenge for authorities, and recycling is seen as one of the key strategies to alleviate this problem. Earlier literature has focused on the factors that influence the success (or failure) of urban recycling schemes with much work focusing on how the attitudes of households and consumers make or break recycling programs. However, an ambitious national level recycling program is rarel…
Geographies of Subcontracting
At its simplest, 'subcontracting' occurs when a company outsources some of its operations and functions to others. These contracts include production, service support, and in some cases, research and design. Yet, the nature of subcontracting as a mode of economic production varies dramatically across different industries, spatial scales, places, and impacts. In view of the immense scope of this topic, in this article, I hope to highlight and illu…
Monkey business: Human-animal conflicts in urban Singapore
Ongoing human–long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) conflicts in Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Singapore, have seen native macaques significantly affected, as residential development encroaches into animals' habitat, destroying important wildlife corridors. The search for a more humane treatment of these transgressive animals can be seen as an attempt to extend and include non-human animals within humanistic notions of ethics and care, in the p…
Unpacking the Postpolitics of Golf Course Provision in Singapore
The number of golf courses in the Southeast Asian city-state of Singapore has grown dramatically in the last few decades. The 1990s was particularly significant both in terms of the number of new courses that was built and the intensity of public opposition against these courses. This article outlines the politics between the opponents and proponents of golf courses based on two contrasting case studies. It highlights the predominant representati…
“They hate pigs, Chinese farmers … everything!” Beastly Racialization in Multiethnic Malaysia
This paper details the construction of the pig and the pig industry in Malaysia. It argues that a pattern of “animal‐linked racialization” continually polices the boundary between the dominant, elite Malay‐Muslim hegemony and the comparatively less powerful Chinese pig farmers. Often subtle and implicit, such beastly racialization, drawing frequently from religious and nationalist tropes, renders visible the taboo subjects of race and racism in M…
Worlds of Food: Place, Power, and Provenance in the Food Chain
Foreign direct investment, institutional context and the changing polish pig industry
The world's meat market has had tremendous growth in the past decades. Global meat producers, particularly in developed economies, have grown bigger through expansion, mergers and acquisitions. The livestock markets in less developed countries are particularly the prime targets for investments by these producers. This article looks at foreign direct investment in a transitional economy, using Poland's pig industry as the empirical case study. It …
Seeing Red Over Green: Contesting Urban Sustainabilities in China
The urban sustainability agenda is engaged at some levels with the two concepts of ecological modernisation and urban entrepreneurialism. While they share certain important commonalities (for example, the emphasis on what is normatively understood as ‘right’ policy-making), each has largely progressed on its own intellectual trajectory. It is suggested that the concepts of ecological modernisation and urban entrepreneurialism are crystallised and…
The Economic Geographies of Aquaculture
Fish protein is projected to make up increasing proportions of our protein intake in the years to come with increasing supply coming from aquaculture. Despite its fast increasing economic importance, there is a relative paucity of research on aquaculture from the standpoint of economic geography. This paper contributes to this literature by first reviewing the socio-economics of certification of fish and the role of aquaculture in economic develo…
Contesting captive cetaceans: (Il)legal spaces and the nature of dolphins in urban Singapore
Drawing on the debate over dolphin captivity in Singapore, we examine the ways in which human–animal relationships are contested. Departing from most animal geography studies which often focused on the conflictual spatial transgressions of animals into human spaces, we use the idea of 'captivity' as a heuristic to posit that human–animal relationships are necessarily moral, spatially enmeshed in contestations over what is (un)natural and increasi…
Modelling green urbanism in C hina
This paper examines how the modelling of green urbanism is spatially manifested in flagship eco‐city projects such as the S ino‐ S ingapore Tianjin eco‐city ( SSTE ) project. As part of a multi‐scalar process that taps into a host of mobile policy networks and ‘quick fix’ urban policy solutions that circulate around the world, such eco‐flagship prestige projects serve as powerful sites for the convergence of the boundaries between the social and …
Political Ecologies of Meat
In the spring of 2014, one of the authors (Paolo) was visiting the Green Market on Union Square, NYC, one of the most renowned farmers’ markets in the United States, performing a direct connection between producers and consumers of food, allegedly alternative to the mass retail channel (Tiemann, 2008), but also promoting what Sharon Zukin terms, from a critical standpoint, ‘the consumption of authenticity’ (2008). Exactly in the middle of the squ…
The Oil Palm Complex: Smallholders, Agribusiness and the State in Indonesia and Malaysia
Ethical consumption, meaningful substitution and the challenges of vegetarianism advocacy
Vegetarianism is viewed by its advocates as ethical food consumption par excellence. Yet the steady, albeit modest, growth in vegetarians worldwide is paradoxically set against an increase in global meat consumption. This study draws on the literature of ethical consumption to illuminate the practical challenges in vegetarianism advocacy. Research on ethical food consumption focuses on three main lines of inquiry, namely how is ethical food defin…
Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion: Community Gardens as Spaces of Responsibility
Geographers have a sustained interest in urban community gardens because such spaces provide a meaningful lens to interrogate the complexities of living at the intersection of nature–society relationships. Most community gardens strive to perform the dual functions of reconnecting urban residents with nature and strengthening the community. More recently, in the context of neoliberal urban restructuring, community gardens have also been viewed as…
Encountering enchantment: Stories from the street football court in Singapore
While enchantment has been used productively to think through the geographies of social encounter, extant research – drawing largely from cases in the West – has reinforced a celebratory notion of enchantment, characterized by egalitarianism and serendipity. In this paper we draw ethnographically on encounters between Malay and Chinese users of two street football courts in Singapore, a non-Western context where principles of public interaction c…
Environmental governance with 'Chinese characteristics' and citizenship participation in Nanjing
‘Born to Run’: Remembering C.P. Pow
C.P. Pow was my confidant, colleague and (occasional) collaborator for more than 20 years. He had fought a valiant and dignified battle with an aggressive cancer but ultimately succumbed to it in July 2021. I will reminisce a few of the little known traits of Pow which had shaped him to become the conscientious, obliging and humble academic that he was known for
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Geography (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Social science (7 works) · Ecology (6 works)