Teaching
In my research, I combine political geography, development, and political economy together in new ways to examine social, environmental, and political implications of green infrastructure development. This commitment to interdisciplinary approach is echoed in my teaching where I design lecture and workshop materials that not only introduce concepts and organize theories but ground and contextualize them in interdisciplinary fields such as area studies (Southeast Asian studies and East Asian studies), and highly integrated fields such as sustainable development and certification, corporate social responsibility, infrastructure competition, and social movements.
My teaching experience includes teaching in tutorials, lectures, workshops and online forums in blended and traditional classrooms. Since 2020, I have taught “Democracy, Dictatorship, and Capitalism” (POL 228) in Murdoch University to second-year students of Politics and International Studies. Using an interdisciplinary approach, I facilitate students’ learning through the discussion on regime changes and development drawing on different case studies. I engage and challenge students to comprehend these political dynamics through an interdisciplinary lens. To produce collaborative and cooperative learning environments, I combine workshop activities, role-play exercises, group presentations, forensic-reading, debates, and peer-feedback as well as share my own research and invite relevant guest lecturers.
I am currently teaching a Global China course, Research Seminar, and Thesis at the College of Global Liberal Arts, Ritsumeikan University. As to Global China, I developed the course with an objective to equip student with conceptual framework and empirical knowledge that enable them to get familiar with a “plural form” of China beyond the West’ dominant perceptions such as ‘debt-trap’, ‘authoritarian state’, ‘state capitalism’, and the like.