COVID-19 in Southeast Asia: Insights for a post-pandemic world

Hyun Bang Shin is Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science and directs the LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre. His research centres on the critical analysis of the political economy of urbanisation, gentrification, displacement, urban spectacles and urbanism, with particular attention to Asian cities. He is a trustee of the Urban Studies Foundation and an editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.Murray McKenzie is a postdoctoral research assistant and research officer at the LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre, and a strategic planning consultant. He holds a PhD in geography and urban studies from UCL and an MA in community and regional planning from the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on the roles of the arts, culture and their contestation in processes of urban growth and change.Do Young Oh is a research assistant professor at the School of Graduate Studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. He was previously a research officer based jointly at the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre and the Middle East Centre at the LSE, where he completed his PhD in regional and urban planning. His research interests focus on comparative urbanism and postcolonialism in East Asia.

• List of figuresList of tablesEditorsContributorsAcknowledgements1 Insights for a post pandemic worldMurray Mckenzie Do Young Oh and Hyun Bang ShinPART I URBANISATION DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE ECONOMIES AND THE ENVIRONMENT2 The urbanisation of spatial inequalities and a new model of urban developmentCreighton Connolly3 Digital transformation education and adult learning in MalaysiaRachel Gong Ashraf Shaharudin and Siti Aiysyah Tumin4 Data privacy security and the future of data governance in MalaysiaMoonyati Yatid and Farlina Said5 Economic crisis and the panopticon of the digital virus in CambodiaSokphea Young6 Property development capital growth and housing affordability in MalaysiaKeng Khoon Ng7 Business process outsourcing industry in the PhilippinesMaddy Thompson8 Global precarity chains and the economic impact on Cambodia’s garment workersKatherine Brickell Theavy Chhom Sabina Lawreniuk and Hengvotey So9 The dual structure of Vietnam’s labour relationsJoe Buckley10 Southeast Asian haze and socio environmental epidemiological feedbackThomas E. L. Smith and Helena VarkkeyPART II MIGRANTS IMMOBILITIES AND BORDERS11 Logistical virulence migrant exposure and the underside of Singapore’s model pandemic responseWilliam Jamieson12 The new normal or the same old The experiences of domestic workers in SingaporeLaura Antona13 Questioning the hero’s welcome for repatriated overseas Filipino workersMaria Carmen Fernandez Justin Muyot Maria Karla Abigail Pangilinan and Nastassja Quijano14 Exposing the transnational precarity of Filipino workers healthcare regimes and nation statesFrancesca Humi15 The economic case against the marginalisation of migrant workers in MalaysiaTheng Theng Tan and Jarud Romadan Khalidi16 Emergent bordering tactics logics of injustice and the new hierarchies of mobility deservingnessSin Yee Koh17 The impacts of crisis on the conflict prone Myanmar China borderAbellia Anggi Wardani and Maw Thoe MyarPART III COLLECTIVE ACTION COMMUNITIES AND MUTUAL AID18 Rethinking urbanisation development and collective action in IndonesiaRita Padawangi19 Community struggles and the challenges of solidarity in MyanmarPonpavi Sangsuradej20 Gotong royong and the role of community in IndonesiaAdrian Perkasa21 Rewriting food insecurity narratives in SingaporeAl Lim22 Happiness sharing pantries and the easing of hunger for the needy in ThailandThanapat Chatinakrob23 Being in common and food relief networks in Metro Manila the PhilippinesTessa Maria Guazon24 Community responses to gendered issues in MalaysiaTengku Nur Qistina25 Building rainbow community resilience among the queer community in Southeast AsiaCornelius Hanung26 Postscript in pandemic academia scholarly practices and an ethics of careHyun Bang Shin Yi Jin Sin Yee Koh Murray Mckenzie Do Young Oh and Yimin ZhaoIndex