Inside the Mind of
George Wong
George Wong is Assistant Professor of Sociology (Education) at the School of Social Sciences at the Singapore Management University, where he is the Coordinator of the Global Asia second major programme, and Asian Insights basket under SMU’s Core Curriculum. His research sits at the intersection of 3Cs: Cities, Communities and Capital in Asian contexts. His works include examining community powers and development, and the role of private and public capital in making (im)possible urban regimes and everyday experiences on the ground. He is also a trained ethnographer with a decade of experience in examining state-sponsored urban community development as political legitimacy projects in Asia. He also teaches courses such as Anthropocene Asia, Deconstructing Singapore Society, Southeast Asia Past and Present, and Understanding Societies, among others.
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