Huiying Ng, MSoc

Huiying received her BSocSci at the University Scholars Programme, a multi-disciplinary program at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where she graduated with a major in Psychology and minor in English Literature. Her work since graduation has explored participatory action research and knowledge co-production around agriculture as an interconnected rural-urban phenomenon. She explored these in an MSocSci thesis (2016-2018) at the Department of Geography, NUS, titled “Re-earthing: A Social Semiotics of Agroecological Futures”. She joined the RCC in September 2020 as a doctoral researcher on the “Environing Infrastructure: Communities, Ecologies, and China’s ‘Green' Development in Contemporary Southeast Asia" project (2020-2025), where she will continue her research on agroecological practices and narratives in Southeast Asia. In her previous academic work, she has been a research assistant on the Urban Aspirations (“Aspirations, Urban Governance and the Remaking of Asian Cities”; 2013-2016) research project based at the National University of Singapore, and the Southeast Asia Neighborhood Network (SEANNET; 2017-2020), a project funded by the Henry Luce Foundation and based at the International Institute for Asian Studies. In shared collaborative practice, since 2019, she has been developing the city-wide Soil Regeneration Project, a community-led action research process, and has been part of several Singapore-based groups (Foodscape Collective, TANAH, and soft/WALL/studs) since 2015. She tweets @fuiin.

Dissertation Project

Infra-Structural Remediations: Agroecological Futures as Prospective Ethnographies of Hope

Selected Publications

• "Recognising the edible urban commons: Cultivating latent capacities for transformative governance in Singapore." Urban Studies 57, vol.7 (May 2019): 1417-1433. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098019834248.
• "Collaborative Imaginaries: Social Experiments, Free Schools and Counterpublics in Singapore." In The Hard State, Soft City of Singapore, edited by Simone Chung and Mike Douglass, 251-274. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020.
• with Bunnell, T., Goh, D. P. S. "Aspirations in urban(izing) Southeast Asia." In Routledge Handbook Of Urbanization In Southeast Asia, edited by R. Padawangi. London: Routledge, 2019.
• "Discontinuities, Sovereignties, Aesthetics: Writing a Food Studies Connected to the World." Graduate Association for Food Studies, Cite This 5, no. 2 (2018). https://gradfoodstudies.org/2018/12/11/discontinuities-sovereignties-aesthetics/
• "Making a Stand of Trees: Reforesting Disavowal." A zine publication part of the exhibition In the Forest, Even the Air Breathes, curated by Abhijan Toto for the Forest Curriculum as part of the Premio Lorenzo Bonaldi. Gamec Museum, Bergamo, 2020.
• "Soil’s Metabolic Rift: Metabolizing Hope, Interrupting the Medium." HKW Technosphere Magazine (2019). https://technosphere-magazine.hkw.de/p/Soils-metabolic-rift-Metabolising-hope-interrupting-the-medium-8eMcSNrSza4JCGwpYsSEij