Weiqiang Lin

Dr Weiqiang LIN is a Cultural Geographer who is interested in mobilities and infrastructures of moving. He has over ten years of experience researching on contemporary mobility issues (particularly in transport) and has contributed to furthering cultural geographical concepts and theories through examining institutions. His work uses a distinctive infrastructural lens to shed light on the often-micro processes of mobilities production (e.g. norms, laws, STS, technologies, affects), offering unique and insightful windows into real-world policy questions. His recent research includes the production of airspaces in Southeast Asia; discursive and technological framings of air logistics in Singapore and China. as well as labour and automation in four of Asia's biggest international airports.

Weiqiang was a recipient of the UK Commonwealth Scholarship from 2011 to 2014, and an NUS Overseas Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto in 2015. He sits on the editorial boards of Dialogues in Human Geography, Digital Geography & Society, Journal of Transport Geography, Mobilities, and Mobility Humanities, and is a Section Editor for Transfers (Ideas in Motion). Weiqiang is also one of three recipients of the inaugural Social Science and Humanities Research (SSHR) Fellowships awarded in 2019.

Current Research

• Airports, labour and automation
• Aeromobilities and COVID-19
• Production of airspace and aviation infrastructures
• Air logistics and the Belt and Road Initiative

Research Interests

• Cultures of mobility infrastructures
• Geographies of mobilities
• Geographies of transport
• Migrant mobilities and infrastructures

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Royal Holloway, University of London (2011 — 2014)
• Masters of Social Sciences National University of Singapore (2007 — 2009)
• Bachelors of Social Sciences (First Class) National University of Singapore (2003 — 2007)
• Student Exchange Penn State University (2004 — 2004)
• Victoria Junior College

Select Recent Publications

• Lin, W. (2022) 'Automated Infrastructure: COVID-19 and the Shifting Geographies of Supply Chain Capitalism', Progress in Human Geography.
• Lin, W. (2021) 'Summit atmospheres: Aviation diplomacy and virtual infrastructures of politics', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers..
• Lin, W. (2020) 'Evental infrastructure: Momentous geographies of technoscience production', Annals of the American Association of Geographers.
• Lin, W. and Qi, A. (2020) '“Aerial Silk Roads”: Airport Infrastructures in China’s Belt and Road Initiative', Development and Change 51(4): 1123-1145.
• Lin, W. (2019) 'Infrastructure's expenditures: Changi Airport, food cargo and capital's technosphere', International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 43(1): 76-93.