Dr. Tammy Kit-Ping Wong

Tam­my Kit-Ping Wong is a rese­ar­cher in urban and geo­gra­phy stu­dies, curr­ent­ly a Visi­ting Rese­arch Fel­low at the Urban Resi­li­ence Rese­arch Cent­re, Osa­ka Metro­po­li­tan Uni­ver­si­ty. Her rese­arch focu­ses on cri­ti­cal urban theo­ry, ter­ri­to­ry and sta­te theo­ry, and the poli­tics of ever­y­day life. She obtai­ned her PhD in Urban Socio­lo­gy from ETH Zurich in 2017. At the Future Cities Labo­ra­to­ry Sin­ga­po­re and the Chair of Socio­lo­gy at the Depart­ment of Archi­tec­tu­re, ETH Zurich, she con­duc­ted rese­arch on Hong Kong, Shen­zhen, and Donggu­an, focu­sing on urba­ni­sa­ti­on pro­ces­ses in com­pa­ra­ti­ve per­spec­ti­ve and exten­ded urba­ni­sa­ti­on. Groun­ded in inten­si­ve fieldwork across the­se three cities, she has con­tri­bu­ted to com­pa­ra­ti­ve urban rese­arch by deve­lo­ping new theo­re­ti­cal cate­go­ries within a coll­ec­ti­ve glo­bal urban project. 

Her post­doc­to­ral rese­arch has con­tri­bu­ted to the stu­dy of exten­ded urba­ni­sa­ti­on, inves­ti­ga­ting the rela­ti­onship bet­ween ter­ri­to­ry and urba­ni­sa­ti­on to res­ha­pe under­stan­dings of sta­te space and its con­tra­dic­tions in Donggu­an. Her cur­rent pro­ject, Poten­tia­li­ties of Mar­gi­nal Urba­nism, explo­res the poli­tics of ever­y­day life in Hong Kong as migrant resi­dents inha­bit and res­ha­pe urban land­scapes through infor­mal trade net­works, mobi­le appro­pria­ti­ons of urban space, and pro­vi­sio­nal social networks.

Tam­my Kit-Pit Wong: cur­ri­cu­lum vitae and publi­ca­ti­ons 

Voca­bu­la­ries for an Urba­ni­s­ing Planet 

Exten­ded Urba­nisati­on