Geographies of Asia

Geographies of Asia

The Department of Geography at McGill University has a considerable number of faculty working on research topics based in Asia. From India, China and Vietnam to Singapore, Malaysia and East Timor, we span urban and rural locales, authoritarian to democratic regimes, mountainous to lowland flood plains. We explore how people make a livelihood on an everyday basis and strive for food security, how households cope with extreme weather events and access ecosystem services, and how regime changes impact land tenure, property rights regimes and human rights.

Undergraduate and Graduate courses we teach that involve Geographies of Asia:

Geog 217 Cities in the Modern World

Geog 325 New Master-Planned Cities

Geog 408 Geography of Development

Geog 409 Geographies of Developing Asia

Geog 515 Contemporary Dilemmas of Development

Geog 525 Asian Cities in the 21st Centry

[Note that some of these courses are team taught so it might be a section that relates specifically to Asia.]

Supervision: all the professors listed on the left are part of the Geographies of Asia cluster and welcome enquiries from students wishing to work on topics related to Asia. Please go to the individual faculty webpages for more information.

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