Dr Hiromi INAGAKI

Postdoctoral Researcher of New Urban Agendas under Planetary Urbanisation module

Hiromi Inagaki joined the New Urban Agendas module in March 2022. Her research focuses on processes in which agricultural territories are operationalized for renewable energy production. In particular, she investigates how socio-spatial and infrastructural differentiations shape and are reproduced by continued extractions and circulations of renewables in Southeast Asia.

Hiromi Inagaki received a doctoral degree in Political Geography from the National University of Singapore. Her thesis examined historical, geographical and material processes in which sugar and electricity productions had been expanded and interlinked within and across Northeast Thailand. By engaging material-techno-politics and political economic geography, her research traced interconnected material and discursive flows of ‘power’, water, sugarcane, and electric and agricultural engineering knowledge.

Prior to the PhD study, Hiromi Inagaki was based in Bangkok, Thailand, for over eight years, managing multi-donor-funded projects on climate change mitigation and adaptation in Southeast Asia. She holds M.A. in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies in the Netherlands.

Dr Hiromi INAGAKI

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