Curriculum Vitae
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Yew Wei Lit is a senior lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Malaya. Prior to this, he was a lecturer at Hong Kong Baptist University and a postdoctoral fellow at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. Based disciplinarily in comparative politics and environmental studies, his research has focused on the politics of development and environmental contention, and more broadly on civil society dynamics in China and Southeast Asia. Dr. Yew obtained a PhD in Asian and International Studies from City University of Hong Kong. He received his MSc in Comparative Politics (Asia) from the London School of Economics and his BIT from Multimedia University (Malaysia).
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION
- DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN ASIAN AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, (ASIAN AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES)City University of Hong Kong
- MASTER OF SCIENCE (COMPARATIVE POLITICS (ASIA)), (COMPARATIVE POLITICS (ASIA))London School of Economics and Political Science
- BACHELOR OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (HONOURS) (SOFTWARE ENGINEERING), (SOFTWARE ENGINEERING)Universiti Multimedia Malaysia (mmu)
PUBLICATIONS
Article in Journal
- Tritto, A., & Yew, W. L. (2023). Embeddedness and hybrid Organisations in Malaysia’s urban heritage governance. International Journal of Public Administration, 46(6), 403-417.
- Yew, W. (2019). Matrix of free spaces in China: Mobilizing citizens and the law through digital and organizational spaces. International Journal of Communication, 13, 3341-3360.
- Yew, W. L., & Zhu, Z. (2019). Innovative autocrats? Environmental innovation in public participation in China and Malaysia. Journal of Environmental Management, 234, 28-35.
- Yew, WL. (2018). Disembedding lawful activism in contemporary China: The confrontational politics of a green NGO’s legal mobilization. China Information, 32(2), 224-243.
- Yew, W. L. (2016). Constraint without coercion: Indirect repression of environmental protest in Malaysia. Pacific Affairs, 89(3), 543-565.