International Workshop

Asianurbanism
andurbaninformality

Hybrid Event
With rapid and compresseddevelopment and urbanisation, Asianmega cities become global hubs ofproduction, finance and consumption,
attracting the global investors andemerging upper class, but at the sametime, exhibiting the continuousexpansion of the urban informality.
Globalization, digitalization andneo-liberal order are further

accelerating the socioeconomictransformation of these emerging
cities. The workshop introduces

cutting-edge researches on dynamism
and dilemma of Asian urban
the urban informality.

June 30 th (Fri) 14:40-17:40
Saitama universit y ( Th e at re room)

Time schedule:

to Register:development as well as new features of[総合研究棟シアター教室]

https://forms.gle/ySSjTP2wWN5JcdL19
14:40 Opening remarks＊ Please register by June 28th (Wed).
Ⅰ. Frontier of Asian urban development"Circulating Asian Urbanism" (Professor, Hyun Bang Shin)
16:20
Ⅱ. New dynamism of urban informality in Asia
"Diversification Strategies of 'Self' and Informality" (Professor, Sayaka Ogawa)"Why was Duterte’s War on Drugs Justified?" (Professor, Wataru Kusaka)

Discussants:

Dr. Zhe Ren (Research fellow, Institute of Developing Economies, IDE-JETRO)
Dr. Ai Hisano (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo)
Dr. Nazia Hussain (Assistant Professor, Institute for Future Initiatives, University of Tokyo)

Speakers:

Hyun Bang Shin
”Circulating Asian Urbanism“

Professor of Geography and Urban
Studies and Director of the Saw
Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre,London School of Economics

Sayaka Ogawa

Wataru Kusaka”Diversification Strategies of"Self" and Informality: A Case
Study on BusinessTransaction
Using Social Media Between
Asian and African Countries“”Why was Duterte’s War onDrugs Justified? : Transformationof Spaces, Socialites, andSubjectivities in Metro Manila“Professor, Graduate School of Core
Ethics and Frontier Sciences,
Ritsumeikan University

Professor, Graduate School of GlobalStudies, Tokyo University of ForeignStudies

Organizer: KAKEN Research Project (Principal Investigator: Professor, Tamaki Endo)“Informalizing Asia: Dynamics and dilemma of global mega cities”
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/en/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-19H00553/

Co-organizer: Saitama University,

Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO)

“Asianurbanism
andurbaninformality”

International Workshop
Time schedule

14:40 Opening remarks

Ⅰ. Frontier of Asian urban development (Moderator: Professor, Tamaki Endo)

14:45 "Circulating Asian Urbanism" (Professor, Hyun Bang Shin)
15:25 Comment and discussion
16:00 Tea BreakⅡ. New dynamism of urban informality in Asia (Moderator: Professor, Kenta Goto)

16:20 "Diversification Strategies of 'Self' and Informality" (Professor, Sayaka Ogawa)
16:40 "Why was Duterte’s War on Drugs Justified?" (Professor, Wataru Kusaka)“

17:00 Comment and discussion

17:35-17:40 Concluding remarks

Speakers

DiscussantsHyun Bang Shin

Professor of Geography and Urban Studies and Director of
the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre, London Schoolof Economics
https://www.lse.ac.uk/geography-and-environment/people/ac
ademic-staff/hyun-bang-shin
Hyun Bang Shin is Professor of Geography and Urban Studies and Director ofthe Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre at the London School of Economics
and Political Science. Prof Shin’s research centres on the critical analysis of thepolitical economic dynamics of urbanisation with particular attention to Asian
cities. His most recent projects include modelling flood risk and community
resilience in Thailand; the urban spectre of global China: mechanism,
consequences, and alternatives for urban futures; and Asian capital and the riseof smart urbanism. Professor Shin is also an editor of the International Journalof Urban and Regional Research and a trustee and treasurer of the Urban
Studies Foundation.

Sayaka Ogawa
Professor, Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier
Sciences, Ritsumeikan University
https://research-db.ritsumei.ac.jp/rithp/k03/resid/S001094?lang=enProfessor Ogawa specializes in cultural anthropology. She has conducted
research on the business practices of Tanzanian street traders and informal
trade between Hong Kong and Tanzania.
Her recent publications include, "An Informal Used-Car Trading System
Between Hong Kong and East Africa Countries Using ICT" In Kojima. M ed.
International Trade of Secondhand Good, Palgrave (2021); The Logic of "Open
Reciprocity" in the Tanzanian Union in Hong Kong and China, Japanese
Review of Cultural Anthropology 20(1): 297-323 (2020).

Wataru Kusaka
Professor, Graduate School of Global Studies, Tokyo
University of Foreign Studies
https://wp.tufs.ac.jp/wataru-kusaka/profile/
He is an expert in Philippine studies using an interdisciplinary
approach across political science, cultural anthropology, and sociology.
His publications include *Moral Politics in the Philippines: Inequality,
Democracy and the Urban Poor* (Singapore: National University ofSingapore Press in association with Kyoto University Press, 2017).

Zhe RenResearch fellow, Institute of Developing Economies,
IDE-JETRO
Dr. Ren is a political scientist with a particular interest in contemporary
China. His research centers on inter-governmental relations, policy study,
state-society relations, and urban studies. His current project focuses on
the discretionary power of township and village leaders in the process ofurbanization and digitalization.

Ai Hisano

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary
Information Studies, University of TokyoDr. Hisano specializes in cultural and business history, the history oftechnology, and the history of the senses. Her book, Visualizing Taste:
How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat (Harvard UniversityPress, 2019), won the Hagley Prize in Business History and the Shimizu
Hiroshi Book Award.

Nazia Hussain

Assistant Professor, Institute for Future Initiatives, Universityof Tokyo
Nazia Hussain received her Ph.D. in Public Policy from George Mason
University, where she focused on governance shaped by informality,violence, and organized crime in cities in the Global South. Her current
work is situated at the intersections of state theory, governance, violenceand politics.

Moderators

Tamaki endo

Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Main research interests include informal economy, inequality, urban risk
management and global value chain analysis.

Kenta Goto

Professor, Faculty of Economics, Kansai University
Kenta Goto's research interests include global value chains and theinformal economy.

Organizer: KAKEN Research Project (Principal Investigator: Professor, Tamaki Endo)“Informalizing Asia: Dynamics and dilemma of global mega cities”
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/en/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-19H00553/

Co-organizer: Saitama University,

Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO)!"#$%&##"'($)*#+$,-$-,(&.("/$.($(0"$,'("#-"%(,*'-$*1$-(.("$(0"*#23$4*5"#'.'%"3$5,*6"'%"$.'/$7*6,(,%-8$