Wei Lit YewÂ
Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics and Translation
City University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Biography
Dr. Wei Lit YEW is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at the Department of Asian and International Studies of City University of Hong Kong. Prior to this position, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Urban Climate Resilience in Southeast Asia project at the Munk School of Global Affairs of the University of Toronto. Dr. Marks has spent a number of years conducting research and working in Southeast Asia, particularly in the fields of climate change adaptation and environmental governance. He has worked for a number of organizations in the region, including the World Bank’s East Asia and Pacific Governance Hub, the Rockefeller Foundation, ActionAid and the NGO Forum on Cambodia. Dr. Marks completed his PhD dissertation, An Urban Political Ecology of the 2011 Bangkok Floods, at the University of Sydney. He received his MA in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He has published on climate change governance, disaster risk reduction, and Thai domestic politics in numerous academic journals, blogs and newspapers.
Research Interest
Social/Environmental Movements
Publications
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“Disembedding lawful activism in contemporary China: The confrontational politics of a green NGO’s legal mobilization,†China Information. Forthcoming.
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Constraint without coercion: Indirect repression of environmental protest in Malaysia,†Pacific Affairs, 89(3), pp.543-565, September 2016.
