Thematic Cluster: URBAN FUTURES IN Southeast Asia SASS
Based in the School of Arts and Social Sciences (SASS) this cohort focuses on Urban Futures in Southeast Asia; a region with rapidly growing mega cities and secondary cities. In the present conjuncture, future urban scenarios are uncertain highlighting the entanglement between cities, climate change and public health. Other factors further destabilise urban futures, including datafication of everyday urban life and patterns of exclusion from digitisation of economies. The cohort will build upon emerging and established collaborations between SASS and Monash University Indonesia, and help to gather priority research areas (climate change communications, digital technologies and society) beneath the aegis of urban futures.
Impact: The cluster will build upon and consolidate both emerging and established collaborations between academics at SASS and Monash University Indonesia (MUI), and help to gather priority research areas (climate change communications, digital technologies and society) beneath the aegis of a common theme: urban futures.
Project 1 (School of Arts and Social Sciences)
Urban futures and Data Justice
Increasingly, everyday life in cities generates data (eg in monetary transactions, use of GPS for wayfinding, locative capacities of most smartphones) and is generated by data (eg traffic flows, regulatory capacities of satnavs etc). This project will study datafication in two or three Southeast Asian cities, to contribute to knowledge and understanding of data justice.
The ideal candidate for this project will have strong writing skills, previous degree in humanities or social sciences, previous academic or lived experience of Southeast Asia.
For enquiries, please contact Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra
For more information about this project, please visit our GEMS website.
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Main Supervisor (Malaysia): Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra
Associate Supervisor (Malaysia): Dr Stefan Bachtold, Dr Taesik Kim
Associate Supervisor (Indonesia): Dr Muhamad Erza Aminanto
The above project is open for application until the position is filled.