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department of geography
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Environment and development
Environmental activism and governance
Politics and society in China
RESEARCH KEYWORD
Environmental politics, civil society,
authoritarian governance, urban heritage and
development, China
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Tritto, A., & Yew, W. L. (2023). Embeddedness and
hybrid organisations in Malaysia’s urban heritage
dr. governance. International Journal of Public
Yew Wei Lit Administration, 46(6), 403-417.;
Yew, W. L., & Zhu, Z. (2019). Innovative autocrats?
weilit@um.edu.my Environmental innovation in public participation in
China and Malaysia. Journal of Environmental
Management, 234, 28-35.;
EDUCATION Yew, W. L. (2019). East Asia in Action| Matrix of
free spaces in China: Mobilizing citizens and the
law through digital and organizational spaces.
PhD in Asian and International Studies
City University of Hong Kong International Journal of Communication, 13, 3341-
3360.;
MSc in Comparative Politics (Asia) Yew, W. L. (2018). Disembedding lawful activism in
The London School of Economics and Political Science contemporary China: The confrontational politics of
a green NGO’s legal mobilization. China
BIT (Hons) Software Engineering Information, 32(2), 224-243.;
Multimedia University, Malaysia Yew, W. L. (2016). Constraint without coercion:
Indirect repression of environmental protest in
Malaysia. Pacific Affairs, 89(3), 543-565.
RESEARCHER ID
AAJ-1326-2020 (Web of Science) SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6673-0776 Teaching Grant, Tin Ka Ping Character and Ethics
Development Scheme, Hong Kong Baptist University.
Outstanding Academic Performance Award, City
SCOPUS ID University of Hong Kong.
57190814422 Asian Graduate Student Fellowship, Asia Research
Institute, National University of Singapore.
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