Tim Oakes

cultural geographer @CUBoulder, 贵州通

[Charmaine Chua @CharmaineSChua]

Only took 4 years, but our SI "On the Blockade" is finally complete! Our introduction "Beyond the Chokepoint: Blockades as Social Struggles" begins from a dissatisfaction w/ the fetishization of chokepoints as de facto progressive disruptions to the contemporary capitalist order

[roadsides @road_sides]

The complete Roadsides collection no. 009 Gendering Infrastructure is available for download in high and low resolution:
https://t.co/rifhHrxijL

[Critical Asian Studies @CriticAsianStds]

#NowAvailable | Xiaoling Chen and @ts_oakes (@CUBoulder) argue that the Chinese contact-tracing tool Time-Space Companion was used to discipline citizens and shift public health responsibilities onto them through regulation, discipline, & criminalization. https://t.co/lDVHHOtSGw

[Asia Research Institute - NUS @nus_ari]

📢 JOB ALERT

A RF position is available for a grant project looking at #urban cities, #urbandevelopment and #urbanfutures in #SEAsia. 🏗️ Come join a supportive and vibrant research team at @nus_ari! Apply before 15 May.

For more details, please visit: https://t.co/Kc3QSmsVsj

[Ian Rowen 伊恩 @iirowen]

New article: Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan have totally different histories and governance, Yet, they are imagined as one through the phrase 港澳台, which simulates a regional formation to serve a strategy of irredentism. 1/10 https://t.co/kdDyC983xo

[Tong Lam @tong_lam]

China slashing foreign subscriber access to key research database https://t.co/L74MMaPu13 via @NikkeiAsia

[AnthropoS @anthropo_s]

Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi co-authored a factsheet The New Global Connect: Mega-Infrastructure Projects and their Local Impacts published by the Swiss Academy of Sciences https://t.co/KuScFQtZPS

[Tim Oakes @ts_oakes]

“the TSC project was not particularly useful for contact tracing. This did not stop it from emerging as part of a broader apparatus of health-screening applications that were understood by state actors to have almost irresistible potential for disciplining and social control.”

[Tim Oakes @ts_oakes]

Chen Xiaoling and I wrote about 时空伴随者 and data driven surveillance in China. Free downloads here: https://t.co/FUukBRR4Jm

[Ian Rowen 伊恩 @iirowen]

My book, 'One China, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism', featured in this week's @politico China Watcher One Book, Three Questions section. @CornellPress

[David Fernando Bachrach @D_bachrach]

Looking forward to giving this presentation at the Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Gunung Djati’s Faculty of Social and Political Science on my approach to studying the Jakarta Bandung High-Speed Railway from an infrastructure studies and techno-political approach

[Belt and Road in Global Perspective @BeltandroadMunk]

New on the blog! Guanie Lim and Hong Liu discuss the lessons learned over the past ten years from the BRI in Southeast Asia.

Check it out 👉 https://t.co/riXkFc89j8

[Asia Research Institute - NUS @nus_ari]

The Silk Road has become one of the key geo-political concepts today but what lies behind its revival and its march towards global fame? Join @winter_tim here at ARI as he talks about the Silk Road's biography and its contestions today. More at: https://t.co/SLNWucvijW

[Peter Yeung @ptr_yeung]

I went to the world's epicentre of nickel production - a key component of EV batteries - for @WIRED.

The dirty truth behind this green energy transition is that workers are dying, locals are starving and an Indonesian island's ecosystem is vanishing.

https://t.co/g1DZbsC5m7

[Tim Oakes @ts_oakes]

@EliDFriedman My amazing PhD student Chen Xiaoling is writing her dissertation on this - hopefully done by end of year 🤞

[Tim Oakes @ts_oakes]

@iirowen Maybe add some fish sauce with your fries

[Verge: Global Asias @VergeGA]

We are excited to announce our next Global Asias Cyber Chat! Gendering Social Movements across Global Asia and Asian America is hosted by @CUBoulderCHA and the CU Center for Asian Studies in partnership with the GAI. Register at https://t.co/W6qIXeHHGz @Drjenho

[EXALT - Global Extractivisms and Alternatives @ExaltResearch]

Recording of the first EXALT Dialogues ‘Insurrection in #Energy Research: #Pluriversal Encounters with #Energy Transition & #Renewability' is out! Share widely! Great contributions by Zoi Christina Siamanta, Larry Lohmann, Carlos Tornel & @DrX_ADunlap
https://t.co/ZMwZvLrNT0