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Jini Kim Watson

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

New York University

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English

Jini Kim Watson is currently serving as an Arts & Science Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University.

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Jini Kim Watson

New York University

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

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east asian studies postcolonial writing urbanism colonialism asian studies history contemporary asia decoloniality urban history urban studies urban theory political science urbanization urban geography post-colonial criticism geography international relations urban sociology urban condition urban process urban life postcolonial contemporary urban planning spatial analysis contemporary fiction urban development urban environments urban politics diaspora studies diasporic movement south asian culture settler colonialism cultural geography geographical aspect modernisation theory imperial mimicry aspirational city literary form urban design poetics global policy political geography geographical information science historical geography applied geography regional studies citizenship studies nationality regime analysis contemporary developments regional development political development biopolitics development aid sovereign debt international debt international politics external debt african diaspora global south urban adaptation political theory integrated geography transnational mobility migration policy cold war reckonings urban form three-dimensional fictions developmental landscape international aid urban transformation not-yet-postcolonial peninsula asian tigers ninotchka rosca global metropolis manichean city global cold war postcolonial literature anti-imperialism culture cold war east asian languages cultural studies

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A/Geography: Syllabus of Possibilities. University of Hawai’i Press (2025)

applied geographycartographygeographical aspectgeographical information sciencecultural geographyintegrated geographygeographic information systemsgeographyhistorical geographyspatial analysispolitical geographyphysical geographyhuman geography

A/Geography: Unsettling the Geographical Imagination for Global Asias. University of Hawai’i Press (2025)

east asian studiesgeographical aspectcultural geographyglobal asiasregional studiesglobalizationasian studiesglobal studieshuman geography

An Archipelago of Illegals: Migrant Spatiality of Sydney in Aravind Adiga’s Amnesty. Palgrave Macmillan (2025)

civilizationsmigrant spatialityaravind adiga ’human migrationmigrant workersnationalitymigration studiestransnational mobilitycitizenship studiesmigration policycitizenshipanthropology

Ends of the Global City. (2025)

urban studiesurban geographyurban theoryurban historygeographyglobalizationglobal citygeopoliticsurbanismglobal studiesglobal connections

Ends of the Global City: Disaffection, Displacement, and the New Cultural Ecologies of the Urban. Palgrave Macmillan (2025)

urban studiescivilizationsurban geographyurban theorynew cultural ecologiesurban processurban affairsurban lifesustainable citiescultureurbanizationglobal cityurban conditionurban sociologyurbanismsustainable urbanism

The Ambivalences of Pan-Asianism. Oxford University Press eBooks (2025)

Jini Kim Watson

contemporary asiaeast asian studieseast asian languagesasian studiesorientalismcultural studies

Diaspora and Detention: Behrouz Boochani, Manus Prison and Genres of the Borderscape. Cambridge University Press (2023)

colonialismcivilizationsrefugee studiesbehrouz boochanicultural historyglobal historyafrican identitymigration studiescross-border crimediaspora studiesmanus prisondiasporic movementmigration and artcultural studiesanthropology

Index. Cambridge University Press eBooks (2023)

Introduction. Cambridge University Press eBooks (2023)

Introduction to the City and World Literature. Cambridge University Press (2023)

literary historyurban theoryliterary theoryliteratureworld literatureurban historyurban lifeliterary studiescomparative literatureurbanism

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Jini Kim Watson

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

New York University

Affiliations

Arts & Science

English

Jini Kim Watson is currently serving as an Arts & Science Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University.

Honors

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Jini Kim Watson

New York University

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

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Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

Collaborators

A/Geography: Syllabus of Possibilities. University of Hawai’i Press (2025)

A/Geography: Unsettling the Geographical Imagination for Global Asias. University of Hawai’i Press (2025)

east asian studiesgeographical aspectcultural geographyglobal asiasregional studiesglobalizationasian studiesglobal studieshuman geography

An Archipelago of Illegals: Migrant Spatiality of Sydney in Aravind Adiga’s Amnesty. Palgrave Macmillan (2025)

civilizationsmigrant spatialityaravind adiga ’human migrationmigrant workersnationalitymigration studiestransnational mobilitycitizenship studiesmigration policycitizenshipanthropology

Ends of the Global City. (2025)

urban studiesurban geographyurban theoryurban historygeographyglobalizationglobal citygeopoliticsurbanismglobal studiesglobal connections

Ends of the Global City: Disaffection, Displacement, and the New Cultural Ecologies of the Urban. Palgrave Macmillan (2025)

The Ambivalences of Pan-Asianism. Oxford University Press eBooks (2025)

Jini Kim Watson

contemporary asiaeast asian studieseast asian languagesasian studiesorientalismcultural studies

Diaspora and Detention: Behrouz Boochani, Manus Prison and Genres of the Borderscape. Cambridge University Press (2023)

Index. Cambridge University Press eBooks (2023)

Introduction. Cambridge University Press eBooks (2023)

Introduction to the City and World Literature. Cambridge University Press (2023)

literary historyurban theoryliterary theoryliteratureworld literatureurban historyurban lifeliterary studiescomparative literatureurbanism

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