Choon‐piew Pow
Biographic Data
| ID | 4812439 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Choon‐piew Pow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Choon‐piew |
| FAMILY NAME | Pow |
| SIGNATURE | POW C P |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 406 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Gated Urbanism
Gated urbanism is often traced to the spread of enclosed urban developments, the most vilified being gated communities. In much of the critical urban studies literature, such gated forms of development are often treated as the products of neoliberalism that allegedly transform cities everywhere into urban fortresses. To the extent that these critiques have become the dominant narratives, they also risk foreclosing critical debates on gated urbani…
Environmental governance with 'Chinese characteristics' and citizenship participation in Nanjing
Building a Harmonious Society through Greening: Ecological Civilization and Aesthetic Governmentality in China
This article interrogates the shifting governmental logics and planning epistemologies that frame ecological civilization projects in China. The article argues how ecological urban projects such as the eco-city are undergirded by a form of aesthetic governmentality that has been deployed to promote a harmonious society in contemporary China by fusing bourgeois forms of aesthetic environmentalism with world-class urban aesthetics. Drawing on the S…
B erkeley S chool
The Berkeley School of Cultural Geography emerged in the 1920s and is closely associated with the works of Carl Ortwin Sauer (1889–1975) and his students. While an intellectual development can rarely be attributed to a single individual scholar, Sauer's pivotal role is so significant that his name has become largely synonymous with the Berkeley School. Through Sauer, cultural geography became redefined as an interdisciplinary project focusing on …
Cultural Geography
As a subdiscipline that has evolved from a number of inherited intellectual traditions, cultural geography is often seen to have experienced several paradigmatic shifts and turns over the past decades. Yet to speak of turns and shifts seems to imply that the trajectory of geographical scholarship always necessarily travels in a unilinear pathway even if the intellectual terrain is often circuitous. To the extent that the term “old” and “new” are …
Sensing visceral urban politics and metabolic exclusion in a Chinese neighbourhood
Insofar as the production of space is intimately bound up with the bodily senses, it would be reasonable to posit that the politics of space is also at the same time a politics of the senses. In this context, the theoretical remit of this paper is to extend our analysis of the role of the senses in theorising a visceral politics of urban exclusion. Using the case study of a middle‐class neighbourhood or xiaoqu in Shanghai, the paper interrogates …
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 …
Urban dystopia and epistemologies of hope
This paper takes issue with the dystopian views that have come to dominate research on privatized urban forms such as gated communities. Urban scholarship on gating is often overwhelmed by recurring case studies documenting the proliferation of urban fortressing and segregation that often warn of an impending urban dystopia with cities being besieged by neoliberal forces of privatism. Moving beyond such noir urban scholarship and universal pessim…
Consuming private security: Consumer citizenship and defensive urbanism in Singapore
Recent scholarship in criminology has suggested that we are witnessing the emergence of an uneven patchwork of urban policing and security provision, increasingly determined by the ability and willingness of consumers to pay for private security goods and services. In particular, it has been argued that the commodification of urban policing and private security has given rise to new forms of ‘consumer citizenship’ and identity and alongside these…
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…
Asian urbanisms and the privatization of cities
Introduction: Global Urban Frontiers? Asian Cities in Theory, Practice and Imagination
10.1177/0042098012452454
Living it up: Super-rich enclave and transnational elite urbanism in Singapore
Gated Communities in China: Class, Privilege and the Moral Politics of the Good Life
Moving beyond conventional accounts of gated communities and housing segregation, this book interrogates the moral politics of urban place-making in China’s commodity housing enclaves. Drawing on fieldwork and survey conducted in Shanghai, Pow critically demonstrates how gated communities are bound up in the cultural reproduction of middle-class landscape that is entrenched in the politics of the good life – defined in terms of a highly segregate…
Public intervention, private aspiration: Gated communities and the condominisation of housing landscapes in Singapore
While the proliferation of gated communities worldwide has generated great interests and debates, the emergence of gated communities is by no means a ‘global’ urban phenomenon that displays uniform characteristics and genesis. Drawing on Singapore as a case study, this paper goes beyond the universalising and often polemical discourses on gated communities to provide a balanced account on how gated communities in the form of enclosed condominium …
Good’ and ‘Real’ Places: A geographical‐moral critique of territorial place‐making
10.1111/j.1468-0467.2009.00308.x
Neoliberalism and the Aestheticization of New Middle‐Class Landscapes
If according to Terry Eagleton ( The Ideology of the Aesthetic 1990:28), the aesthetic is from the start “a contradictory, double‐edged concept”, how are seemingly innocent acts of viewing and consuming aesthetically pleasing landscapes implicated in the neoliberal politics of urban restructuring? Using contemporary Shanghai as a case study, this paper critically examines the role of the aesthetic in the politics of exclusion and urban segregatio…
Marketing the Chinese Dream Home: Gated Communities and Representations of the Good Life in (Post-)Socialist Shanghai
10.2747/0272-3638.28.2.129
Securing the 'Civilised' Enclaves: Gated Communities and the Moral Geographies of Exclusion in (Post-)socialist Shanghai
Moving beyond conventional accounts of gated communities typically devoted to issues on housing choices and urban segregation, this paper offers a nuanced perspective by demonstrating how the moral ordering of urban spaces is fundamental in shaping territoriality and exclusion in Shanghai's gated communities. Specifically, the paper argues how territoriality in Shanghai's gated communities is invariably bound up in a moral distinction between the…
Constructing a new private order: Gated communities and the privatization of urban life in post-reform Shanghai
This paper examines changing notions of public and private spaces in post-reform urban Shanghai by focusing on the emergence of private gated communities (fengbi xiaoqu) and their impact on the privatization of urban space and social life in the city. While gated communities in Anglo-American literature are typically cast in a negative light (often depicted as the bulldozing of public spaces by private interests), this paper offers a nuanced inte…
“Sense and Sensibility”: Social‐spatial Experiences of the Visually‐impaired in Singapore
Vision plays an important role in our daily life, and geography is to a large extent, a visual discipline. The persistence of the visual ideology is problematic as it encourages geographical scholarship to neglect the role of non‐visual senses while at the same time, marginalises the experiences of non‐sighted people. By adopting an interpretative approach and drawing concepts from “sensuous geographies”, this paper explores the role of non‐visua…
Living it up: Super-rich enclave and transnational elite urbanism in Singapore
Neoliberalism and the Aestheticization of New Middle‐Class Landscapes
If according to Terry Eagleton ( The Ideology of the Aesthetic 1990:28), the aesthetic is from the start “a contradictory, double‐edged concept”, how are seemingly innocent acts of viewing and consuming aesthetically pleasing landscapes implicated in the neoliberal politics of urban restructuring? Using contemporary Shanghai as a case study, this paper critically examines the role of the aesthetic in the politics of exclusion and urban segregatio…
Securing the 'Civilised' Enclaves: Gated Communities and the Moral Geographies of Exclusion in (Post-)socialist Shanghai
Moving beyond conventional accounts of gated communities typically devoted to issues on housing choices and urban segregation, this paper offers a nuanced perspective by demonstrating how the moral ordering of urban spaces is fundamental in shaping territoriality and exclusion in Shanghai's gated communities. Specifically, the paper argues how territoriality in Shanghai's gated communities is invariably bound up in a moral distinction between the…
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…
Marketing the Chinese Dream Home: Gated Communities and Representations of the Good Life in (Post-)Socialist Shanghai
10.2747/0272-3638.28.2.129
Asian urbanisms and the privatization of cities
Constructing a new private order: Gated communities and the privatization of urban life in post-reform Shanghai
This paper examines changing notions of public and private spaces in post-reform urban Shanghai by focusing on the emergence of private gated communities (fengbi xiaoqu) and their impact on the privatization of urban space and social life in the city. While gated communities in Anglo-American literature are typically cast in a negative light (often depicted as the bulldozing of public spaces by private interests), this paper offers a nuanced inte…
Urban dystopia and epistemologies of hope
This paper takes issue with the dystopian views that have come to dominate research on privatized urban forms such as gated communities. Urban scholarship on gating is often overwhelmed by recurring case studies documenting the proliferation of urban fortressing and segregation that often warn of an impending urban dystopia with cities being besieged by neoliberal forces of privatism. Moving beyond such noir urban scholarship and universal pessim…
Public intervention, private aspiration: Gated communities and the condominisation of housing landscapes in Singapore
While the proliferation of gated communities worldwide has generated great interests and debates, the emergence of gated communities is by no means a ‘global’ urban phenomenon that displays uniform characteristics and genesis. Drawing on Singapore as a case study, this paper goes beyond the universalising and often polemical discourses on gated communities to provide a balanced account on how gated communities in the form of enclosed condominium …
Building a Harmonious Society through Greening: Ecological Civilization and Aesthetic Governmentality in China
This article interrogates the shifting governmental logics and planning epistemologies that frame ecological civilization projects in China. The article argues how ecological urban projects such as the eco-city are undergirded by a form of aesthetic governmentality that has been deployed to promote a harmonious society in contemporary China by fusing bourgeois forms of aesthetic environmentalism with world-class urban aesthetics. Drawing on the S…
Introduction: Global Urban Frontiers? Asian Cities in Theory, Practice and Imagination
10.1177/0042098012452454
Sensing visceral urban politics and metabolic exclusion in a Chinese neighbourhood
Insofar as the production of space is intimately bound up with the bodily senses, it would be reasonable to posit that the politics of space is also at the same time a politics of the senses. In this context, the theoretical remit of this paper is to extend our analysis of the role of the senses in theorising a visceral politics of urban exclusion. Using the case study of a middle‐class neighbourhood or xiaoqu in Shanghai, the paper interrogates …
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 …
Consuming private security: Consumer citizenship and defensive urbanism in Singapore
Recent scholarship in criminology has suggested that we are witnessing the emergence of an uneven patchwork of urban policing and security provision, increasingly determined by the ability and willingness of consumers to pay for private security goods and services. In particular, it has been argued that the commodification of urban policing and private security has given rise to new forms of ‘consumer citizenship’ and identity and alongside these…
Good’ and ‘Real’ Places: A geographical‐moral critique of territorial place‐making
10.1111/j.1468-0467.2009.00308.x
“Sense and Sensibility”: Social‐spatial Experiences of the Visually‐impaired in Singapore
Vision plays an important role in our daily life, and geography is to a large extent, a visual discipline. The persistence of the visual ideology is problematic as it encourages geographical scholarship to neglect the role of non‐visual senses while at the same time, marginalises the experiences of non‐sighted people. By adopting an interpretative approach and drawing concepts from “sensuous geographies”, this paper explores the role of non‐visua…
Marketing the Chinese Dream Home: Gated Communities and Representations of the Good Life in (Post-)Socialist Shanghai
10.2747/0272-3638.28.2.129
Securing the 'Civilised' Enclaves: Gated Communities and the Moral Geographies of Exclusion in (Post-)socialist Shanghai
Moving beyond conventional accounts of gated communities typically devoted to issues on housing choices and urban segregation, this paper offers a nuanced perspective by demonstrating how the moral ordering of urban spaces is fundamental in shaping territoriality and exclusion in Shanghai's gated communities. Specifically, the paper argues how territoriality in Shanghai's gated communities is invariably bound up in a moral distinction between the…
Constructing a new private order: Gated communities and the privatization of urban life in post-reform Shanghai
This paper examines changing notions of public and private spaces in post-reform urban Shanghai by focusing on the emergence of private gated communities (fengbi xiaoqu) and their impact on the privatization of urban space and social life in the city. While gated communities in Anglo-American literature are typically cast in a negative light (often depicted as the bulldozing of public spaces by private interests), this paper offers a nuanced inte…
Gated Communities in China: Class, Privilege and the Moral Politics of the Good Life
Moving beyond conventional accounts of gated communities and housing segregation, this book interrogates the moral politics of urban place-making in China’s commodity housing enclaves. Drawing on fieldwork and survey conducted in Shanghai, Pow critically demonstrates how gated communities are bound up in the cultural reproduction of middle-class landscape that is entrenched in the politics of the good life – defined in terms of a highly segregate…
Public intervention, private aspiration: Gated communities and the condominisation of housing landscapes in Singapore
While the proliferation of gated communities worldwide has generated great interests and debates, the emergence of gated communities is by no means a ‘global’ urban phenomenon that displays uniform characteristics and genesis. Drawing on Singapore as a case study, this paper goes beyond the universalising and often polemical discourses on gated communities to provide a balanced account on how gated communities in the form of enclosed condominium …
Good’ and ‘Real’ Places: A geographical‐moral critique of territorial place‐making
10.1111/j.1468-0467.2009.00308.x
Neoliberalism and the Aestheticization of New Middle‐Class Landscapes
If according to Terry Eagleton ( The Ideology of the Aesthetic 1990:28), the aesthetic is from the start “a contradictory, double‐edged concept”, how are seemingly innocent acts of viewing and consuming aesthetically pleasing landscapes implicated in the neoliberal politics of urban restructuring? Using contemporary Shanghai as a case study, this paper critically examines the role of the aesthetic in the politics of exclusion and urban segregatio…
Living it up: Super-rich enclave and transnational elite urbanism in Singapore
Asian urbanisms and the privatization of cities
Introduction: Global Urban Frontiers? Asian Cities in Theory, Practice and Imagination
10.1177/0042098012452454
Consuming private security: Consumer citizenship and defensive urbanism in Singapore
Recent scholarship in criminology has suggested that we are witnessing the emergence of an uneven patchwork of urban policing and security provision, increasingly determined by the ability and willingness of consumers to pay for private security goods and services. In particular, it has been argued that the commodification of urban policing and private security has given rise to new forms of ‘consumer citizenship’ and identity and alongside these…
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…
Urban dystopia and epistemologies of hope
This paper takes issue with the dystopian views that have come to dominate research on privatized urban forms such as gated communities. Urban scholarship on gating is often overwhelmed by recurring case studies documenting the proliferation of urban fortressing and segregation that often warn of an impending urban dystopia with cities being besieged by neoliberal forces of privatism. Moving beyond such noir urban scholarship and universal pessim…
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 …
Sensing visceral urban politics and metabolic exclusion in a Chinese neighbourhood
Insofar as the production of space is intimately bound up with the bodily senses, it would be reasonable to posit that the politics of space is also at the same time a politics of the senses. In this context, the theoretical remit of this paper is to extend our analysis of the role of the senses in theorising a visceral politics of urban exclusion. Using the case study of a middle‐class neighbourhood or xiaoqu in Shanghai, the paper interrogates …
B erkeley S chool
The Berkeley School of Cultural Geography emerged in the 1920s and is closely associated with the works of Carl Ortwin Sauer (1889–1975) and his students. While an intellectual development can rarely be attributed to a single individual scholar, Sauer's pivotal role is so significant that his name has become largely synonymous with the Berkeley School. Through Sauer, cultural geography became redefined as an interdisciplinary project focusing on …
Cultural Geography
As a subdiscipline that has evolved from a number of inherited intellectual traditions, cultural geography is often seen to have experienced several paradigmatic shifts and turns over the past decades. Yet to speak of turns and shifts seems to imply that the trajectory of geographical scholarship always necessarily travels in a unilinear pathway even if the intellectual terrain is often circuitous. To the extent that the term “old” and “new” are …
Building a Harmonious Society through Greening: Ecological Civilization and Aesthetic Governmentality in China
This article interrogates the shifting governmental logics and planning epistemologies that frame ecological civilization projects in China. The article argues how ecological urban projects such as the eco-city are undergirded by a form of aesthetic governmentality that has been deployed to promote a harmonious society in contemporary China by fusing bourgeois forms of aesthetic environmentalism with world-class urban aesthetics. Drawing on the S…
Gated Urbanism
Gated urbanism is often traced to the spread of enclosed urban developments, the most vilified being gated communities. In much of the critical urban studies literature, such gated forms of development are often treated as the products of neoliberalism that allegedly transform cities everywhere into urban fortresses. To the extent that these critiques have become the dominant narratives, they also risk foreclosing critical debates on gated urbani…
Environmental governance with 'Chinese characteristics' and citizenship participation in Nanjing
Sociology (19 works) · Political science (16 works) · Law (13 works) · Geography (12 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Social science (7 works)