Can environmental problems be socially and politically produced?
In the 7th Heo/Geo Lecture Series for 2024, Dr Danny Marks presents various discourses where environmental problems in Bangkok such as haze, heat, floods, and traffic congestion are also outcomes of urban development particularly political decisions, economic interests, and power relations. His onsite talk entitled Living in a City of Heat, Haze, and Floods: The Urban Political Ecology of Bangkok's Numerous Environmental Challenges, happens on Thursday, 18 July 2024 at 2:00PM in Palma Hall Pavilion room 2248.
In the past decade, the residents of Bangkok have suffered numerous environmental problems. Vulnerability to the city's environmental risks, a combination of exposure to and capacity to cope with them, has been uneven across the geographical and social landscape. Those who have been worst-affected have primarily been the most marginalized groups while those who have benefitted the most from Bangkok's uneven development have been the elite. The presentation is based on Dr Marks' fieldwork conducted over the past decade.
Danny Marks is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Politics and Policy, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University. He has spent a number of years conducting research and working in Southeast Asia, particularly in the field of 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.
Presented by the UP Department of Geography through its Environment and Development Geographies (EDGE) research group, and the Philippine Geographical Society, the Heo/Geo Lecture Series is a space where academic scholars, field practitioners, industry experts, and members of various communities can talk about their place-based engagements and practices. This talk is part of the 40th anniversary of the discipline of geography in the academy.
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