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YEAR
2025

department of geography

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Environment and development
Environmental activism and governance
Politics and society in China

RESEARCH KEYWORDS
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
PhD in Asian and International Studies
City University of Hong Kong law through digital and organizational spaces.
International Journal of Communication, 13, 3341-
MSc in Comparative Politics (Asia) 3360.;
London School of Economics and Yew, W. L. (2018). Disembedding lawful activism in
Political Science contemporary China: The confrontational politics of
a green NGO’s legal mobilization. China
BIT (Hons) Software Engineering Information, 32(2), 224-243.;
Universiti Multimedia Malaysia (MMU) Yew, W. L. (2016). Constraint without coercion:
Indirect repression of environmental protest in
UMEXPERT LINK Malaysia. Pacific Affairs, 89(3), 543-565.
https://umexpert.um.edu.my/weilit.html
SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS
RESEARCHER ID
AAJ-1326-2020 (Web of Science) Teaching Grant, Tin Ka Ping Character and Ethics
Development Scheme, Hong Kong Baptist University.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6673-0776
Outstanding Academic Performance Award, City
University of Hong Kong.
SCOPUS ID Asian Graduate Student Fellowship, Asia Research
57190814422 Institute, National University of Singapore.

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