Young-Jin Ahn
Biographic Data
| ID | 5153392 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Young-Jin Ahn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Young-Jin |
| FAMILY NAME | Ahn |
| SIGNATURE | AHN Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chonnam National University |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-3400-8261 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
State-coordinated metropolitan expansion and land-use change in Tashkent, 1990–2025
This study reconstructs the land-use evolution of Tashkent, Uzbekistan, across three benchmark years—1990, 2010, and 2025—using GIS analysis of archival maps, satellite imagery, and open geospatial data. The analysis identifies three broad phases: a compact, functionally zoned Soviet city in 1990; a transitional landscape shaped by emerging market influences in 2010; and a phase of state-coordinated metropolitan expansion by 2025, including the i…
Planning reform and heritage governance in Uzbekistan: A spatial analysis of urban expansion (2005–2025)
In post-socialist contexts, urban form is often expected to converge on compact or sprawling models. Uzbekistan, however, demonstrates divergent trajectories shaped by post-2016 reform and UNESCO heritage governance. Using multi-decadal GIS analysis (2005–2025) of Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, and Khiva, this study maps urban expansion and applies indicators of compactness, fragmentation, land-use efficiency, and ring-growth orientation. Results …
Double exposure: How globalisation manufactures vulnerability
Governing through transition: The spatial politics of low-carbon futurity
Low-carbon transitions are framed as technocratic fixes to climate crisis but function instead as spatial regimes of governance and accumulation. They reorganise power, territory and legitimacy while extending, not rupturing, carbon modernity. Under the moral sign of sustainability, decarbonisation reorders value through new infrastructure, financial instruments and scalar hierarchies. The green economy governs through crisis, turning ecological …
Decoupling growth from carbon: Analysis of CO 2 emissions and economic change in Uzbekistan (1990–2023)
More than a supplement: Muslim geographies and rethinking human geography
This paper considers how Muslim geographies have been positioned within human geography and argues for engaging them beyond their treatment as peripheral cases. It makes three related contributions. First, it revisits geography’s genealogy by situating Islamic historiography, cosmography, and political thought within longer intellectual histories of spatial knowledge. Second, it explores concepts such as ummah , hijra , waqf , and khalifa as anal…
Al-Biruni’s Kitab al-Hind and the ethical cartographies of knowledge
This article revisits the legacy of Abu Rayhan al-Biruni’s Kitab al-Hind (ca. 1030 CE) through the lenses of cultural geography and Islamic intellectual history. Rather than treating al-Biruni as a linear antecedent of modern geography or anthropology, we argue that his work constitutes a methodological model rooted in the ethics of translation, plural rationality, and epistemic humility. By situating the Kitab al-Hind within its Islamic cosmolog…
Integrating Ibn Khaldun’s wisdom into urban sustainability
Civilizational spatiality in context: Ibn Khaldun and the sacred geography of authority
This article turns to Ibn Khaldun’s Muqaddimah (1377) to explore how spiritual leadership becomes spatialized through ʿasabiyya (group feeling), ritual infrastructures, and territorial design. Sacred offices, as Ibn Khaldun shows through his reflections on the Pope, Patriarch, and Kohen , function as spatial institutions, organizing power through pilgrimage routes, sacred capitals, and clerical hierarchies. Drawing on Islamic intellectual traditi…
Mahmud ibn Vali and the Persianate geography of early modern Eurasia
Landscape, power, and speculative urbanism in Songdo, South Korea
Though promoted as a smart city and global financial hub, the Songdo Free Economic Zone in South Korea has instead materialised as a speculative enclave—underpopulated, infrastructurally fragmented, and socially exclusionary. Drawing on critical urban theory, landscape studies, and spatial political economy, this paper argues that Songdo’s built form reflects the strategic realisation of elite objectives. Through spatial and discourse analysis, i…
Peripheral Carbon Governance: Neoliberal Spatial Fixes and Rise of Carbon Markets in Uzbekistan
This study examines Uzbekistan’s early integration into global carbon markets through the World Bank–supported iCRAFT programme (Article 6, Paris Agreement). Rather than advancing structural decarbonization, Uzbekistan’s carbon finance primarily serves fiscal stabilization, regulatory alignment and geopolitical positioning. This study develops the concept of peripheral carbon governance by engaging existing literature and publicly available data …
Planning against planning: Anarchist urbanism as a critical praxis
Interconnected challenges: An ethical discussion of climate change through the jellyfish metaphor
Revisiting the Aral Sea crisis: A geographical perspective
The Aral Sea crisis is one of the greatest ecological and socio-economic disasters of the 20th century. The main cause was the large-scale diversion of water for cotton cultivation. This article examines the crisis with a human geography perspective and emphasises the need for a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach. It highlights the importance of sustainable water management, regional cooperation and active community participation. The s…
Critical analysis of Marxist ideas in modern urban planning
Perspectives on urban injustice: Revisiting social geographies of justice
Illumination of Divine Love: Rediscovering the Hikmats of Sufi Ahmad Yasawi
Divine love, rooted in religious and spiritual traditions, remains relevant today as it represents unconditional, selfless love and fosters empathy, compassion, and understanding among individuals. Embracing the principles of divine love can promote unity, tolerance, and interdependence, fostering global harmony and peace. This study uses a philosophical framework to examine the complex concept of divine love, specifically looking at the historic…
Theological reflections in the age of climate change: A reflection on the jellyfish metaphor
This article weaves together philosophy and theology to explore the imperative of conservation in our increasingly interconnected world. Amidst the shadows of globalization, climate change, and global warming, this intellectual journey continues. The use of the thought-provoking metaphor of the jellyfish underscores humanity's central role in the story of ecological challenges. This pursuit underscores our deep moral duty to navigate complicated …
Exploring the Interplay of Healthcare, Spirituality, and Urban Well-Being
This perspective article discusses the relationship between religion, spirituality and health and emphasizes their continuing importance in today’s world. The article examines the portrayal of moderation in religious texts, such as the teachings of mindful eating, the mindfulness approach, and the concept of fasting in the context of current research on intermittent fasting. This article accentuates the connection between body and soul and attemp…
Illumination of Divine Love: Rediscovering the Hikmats of Sufi Ahmad Yasawi
Divine love, rooted in religious and spiritual traditions, remains relevant today as it represents unconditional, selfless love and fosters empathy, compassion, and understanding among individuals. Embracing the principles of divine love can promote unity, tolerance, and interdependence, fostering global harmony and peace. This study uses a philosophical framework to examine the complex concept of divine love, specifically looking at the historic…
Theological reflections in the age of climate change: A reflection on the jellyfish metaphor
This article weaves together philosophy and theology to explore the imperative of conservation in our increasingly interconnected world. Amidst the shadows of globalization, climate change, and global warming, this intellectual journey continues. The use of the thought-provoking metaphor of the jellyfish underscores humanity's central role in the story of ecological challenges. This pursuit underscores our deep moral duty to navigate complicated …
Exploring the Interplay of Healthcare, Spirituality, and Urban Well-Being
This perspective article discusses the relationship between religion, spirituality and health and emphasizes their continuing importance in today’s world. The article examines the portrayal of moderation in religious texts, such as the teachings of mindful eating, the mindfulness approach, and the concept of fasting in the context of current research on intermittent fasting. This article accentuates the connection between body and soul and attemp…
Interconnected challenges: An ethical discussion of climate change through the jellyfish metaphor
Revisiting the Aral Sea crisis: A geographical perspective
The Aral Sea crisis is one of the greatest ecological and socio-economic disasters of the 20th century. The main cause was the large-scale diversion of water for cotton cultivation. This article examines the crisis with a human geography perspective and emphasises the need for a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach. It highlights the importance of sustainable water management, regional cooperation and active community participation. The s…
Critical analysis of Marxist ideas in modern urban planning
Perspectives on urban injustice: Revisiting social geographies of justice
Integrating Ibn Khaldun’s wisdom into urban sustainability
Civilizational spatiality in context: Ibn Khaldun and the sacred geography of authority
This article turns to Ibn Khaldun’s Muqaddimah (1377) to explore how spiritual leadership becomes spatialized through ʿasabiyya (group feeling), ritual infrastructures, and territorial design. Sacred offices, as Ibn Khaldun shows through his reflections on the Pope, Patriarch, and Kohen , function as spatial institutions, organizing power through pilgrimage routes, sacred capitals, and clerical hierarchies. Drawing on Islamic intellectual traditi…
Mahmud ibn Vali and the Persianate geography of early modern Eurasia
Landscape, power, and speculative urbanism in Songdo, South Korea
Though promoted as a smart city and global financial hub, the Songdo Free Economic Zone in South Korea has instead materialised as a speculative enclave—underpopulated, infrastructurally fragmented, and socially exclusionary. Drawing on critical urban theory, landscape studies, and spatial political economy, this paper argues that Songdo’s built form reflects the strategic realisation of elite objectives. Through spatial and discourse analysis, i…
Peripheral Carbon Governance: Neoliberal Spatial Fixes and Rise of Carbon Markets in Uzbekistan
This study examines Uzbekistan’s early integration into global carbon markets through the World Bank–supported iCRAFT programme (Article 6, Paris Agreement). Rather than advancing structural decarbonization, Uzbekistan’s carbon finance primarily serves fiscal stabilization, regulatory alignment and geopolitical positioning. This study develops the concept of peripheral carbon governance by engaging existing literature and publicly available data …
Planning against planning: Anarchist urbanism as a critical praxis
State-coordinated metropolitan expansion and land-use change in Tashkent, 1990–2025
This study reconstructs the land-use evolution of Tashkent, Uzbekistan, across three benchmark years—1990, 2010, and 2025—using GIS analysis of archival maps, satellite imagery, and open geospatial data. The analysis identifies three broad phases: a compact, functionally zoned Soviet city in 1990; a transitional landscape shaped by emerging market influences in 2010; and a phase of state-coordinated metropolitan expansion by 2025, including the i…
Planning reform and heritage governance in Uzbekistan: A spatial analysis of urban expansion (2005–2025)
In post-socialist contexts, urban form is often expected to converge on compact or sprawling models. Uzbekistan, however, demonstrates divergent trajectories shaped by post-2016 reform and UNESCO heritage governance. Using multi-decadal GIS analysis (2005–2025) of Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, and Khiva, this study maps urban expansion and applies indicators of compactness, fragmentation, land-use efficiency, and ring-growth orientation. Results …
Double exposure: How globalisation manufactures vulnerability
Governing through transition: The spatial politics of low-carbon futurity
Low-carbon transitions are framed as technocratic fixes to climate crisis but function instead as spatial regimes of governance and accumulation. They reorganise power, territory and legitimacy while extending, not rupturing, carbon modernity. Under the moral sign of sustainability, decarbonisation reorders value through new infrastructure, financial instruments and scalar hierarchies. The green economy governs through crisis, turning ecological …
Decoupling growth from carbon: Analysis of CO 2 emissions and economic change in Uzbekistan (1990–2023)
More than a supplement: Muslim geographies and rethinking human geography
This paper considers how Muslim geographies have been positioned within human geography and argues for engaging them beyond their treatment as peripheral cases. It makes three related contributions. First, it revisits geography’s genealogy by situating Islamic historiography, cosmography, and political thought within longer intellectual histories of spatial knowledge. Second, it explores concepts such as ummah , hijra , waqf , and khalifa as anal…
Al-Biruni’s Kitab al-Hind and the ethical cartographies of knowledge
This article revisits the legacy of Abu Rayhan al-Biruni’s Kitab al-Hind (ca. 1030 CE) through the lenses of cultural geography and Islamic intellectual history. Rather than treating al-Biruni as a linear antecedent of modern geography or anthropology, we argue that his work constitutes a methodological model rooted in the ethics of translation, plural rationality, and epistemic humility. By situating the Kitab al-Hind within its Islamic cosmolog…
Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Climate change (3 works) · Environmental Science (3 works)