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Jamie Wang is an Urban Environmental Humanities and Cultural Studies scholar. She is Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities in the Department of Literature and Cultural Studies at the Education University of Hong Kong. Jamie's research is situated in the interdisciplinary field of the Environmental Humanities with a particular focus on cultural studies, urban studies, feminist science and technology studies. Her current thinking and writing examines sustainable urban-making, technological imaginaries, multi-modal environmental narratives in the context of intense urbanisation, climate change and environmental injustice. She has explored some of these issues in her book Reimagining the More-Than-Human City: stories from Singapore (2024, MIT Press). Along with the members of the Feminist Review Collective, Jamie co-edited the special themed issue series “Feminist Futures” (2023, 2024), marking the beginning of a new direction for the journal Feminist Review.
Jamie is also a poet and editor. Her creative work has appeared in Otherwise, Feminist Review, Voice and Verse among other venues. Jamie has a M.A. in writing and literature (Deakin University) and a Ph.D. in Environmental Humanities and Cultural Studies (University of Sydney). For more information, please visit jamiewang.org.
Research interests
Cultural Studies
More-than-human Studies
Multi-modal storytelling
Climate Change and Agri-food
Feminist science and technology studies
Creative Writing and eco-poetics
Professional information
External Appointments
— Editor/Feminist Review Collective, Feminist Review
— Visiting Fellow, The Smart Sustainable Cities Research Network and the Greenhouse Centre of Environmental Humanities, University of Stavanger, Norway (May 2023)
— World-Making Fellow, Joint Centre for Advanced Studies: “Worldmaking from a Global Perspective”, University of Heidelberg and Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society, LMU (July 2023).
— Writing Fellowship, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, University of Sydney (2022)
— Research Affiliate, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, the University of Sydney (2021 - 2022)
— Visiting Researcher, Southeast Asia Research Centre (SEARC), The City University of Hong Kong (2021- 2022)
— Member, International Research Centre for Cultural Studies (IRCCS)
— Member, Sydney Environment Institute (SEI)
— Member, Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture, Australia– New Zealand (ASLEZ-ANZ)
— Member, Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA)
— Member, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre (SSEAC)
— Member, China Studies Centre, the University of Sydney.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
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SDG 13 Climate Action
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
- 1 Active
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Situating Care in Sustainable High-technological Urban Farming
WANG, Y. J. (PI)
01/01/25 → 31/12/26
Project: Research project
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Book review forum: Political ecologies of landscape: Governing urban transformations in Penang
CHUNG, C. K. L., SILVER, J., LOFTUS, A., JENKINS, G., WANG, Y. J. & CONNOLLY, C., Apr 2025, In: Urban Studies. 62, 5, p. 1015-1029Research output: Contribution to journal › Articles › peer-review
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Conferencing as environing with care: Organising an environmental humanities symposium in Hong Kong
ZHANG, Z., WANG, Y. J. & ZHENG, K., 2025, In: Knowledge Cultures. 13, 1, p. 139-162Research output: Contribution to journal › Articles › peer-review
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Navigating academic non/sense: A collective coda on response-able research ethics
PASLEY, A., STURM, S., ASPRILLA, D. I., EL MAZBOUH, M., KAUHANEN, I., PEÑA, C., RUSSIAL, M., WANG, Y. J., WESTBROOK, F., ZHANG, Z. & ZHENG, K., 2025, In: Knowledge Cultures. 13, 1, p. 163-174Research output: Contribution to journal › Articles › peer-review
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Agential distance and more-than-human urban mobility
WANG, Y. J. & ZONG, E., Nov 2024.Research output: Contribution to conference › Papers
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Reimagining the more-than-human city: Stories from Singapore
WANG, Y. J., 2024, The MIT Press.Research output: Book/Report › Books
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