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  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Singapore Leader Award
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Overview

James D. Sidaway is affiliated with the National University of Singapore and conducts research primarily within the social sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including sociology and political science, geography, planning and development, anthropology, urban studies, and political science and international relations.

The scientist's recent publications cover a range of topics, frequently appearing in journals such as the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, The AAG Review of Books, Dialogues in Human Geography, and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. Their research contributions focus on key topics including anthropological studies and insights, historical geography and geographical thought, urban planning and governance, socioeconomic development in Asia, China's socioeconomic reforms and governance, geography education and pedagogy, and geographic information systems studies.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by James D. Sidaway include:

  • "Introduction: Research agendas raised by the Belt and Road Initiative" (2020), published in Environment and Planning C Politics and Space
  • "Beyond the decolonial: Critical Muslim geographies" (2022), published in Dialogues in Human Geography
  • "Spatial Histories of Radical Geography: North America and Beyond" (2020), published in The AAG Review of Books

Other influential papers associated with Sidaway's network and field include:

  • "Financing the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): research agendas beyond the 'debt-trap' discourse" (2020), published in Eurasian Geography and Economics
  • "Critical geoeconomics: A genealogy of writing politics, economy and space" (2023), published in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

James D. Sidaway collaborates frequently with researchers such as T.C. Chang, Chen-Chieh Feng, Xixi Lu, Godfrey Yeung, and Felix Mallin. These coauthorships highlight an interdisciplinary approach across geography, political science, and urban studies.

In addition to journal articles, James D. Sidaway has contributed to book publications, including a work published by the University of Georgia Press eBooks titled Transecting Securityscapes: Dispatches from Cambodia, Iraq, and Mozambique (2021).

Best Publications

  • Postcolonial geographies: an exploratory essay:

    James D. Sidaway

  • Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism: Benedict Anderson (revised edition), 224 pp., 1991, Verso, London, £10.95 pbk

    James Derrick Sidaway

  • Deathscapes: Spaces for Death, Dying, Mourning and Remembrance

    Avril Maddrell;James Sidaway

  • Locating Critical Geopolitics

    Klaus-John Dodds;James Derrick Sidaway

  • Spaces of postdevelopment

    James D. Sidaway

  • Chinese Narratives on “One Belt, One Road” (一带一路) in Geopolitical and Imperial Contexts

    James D. Sidaway;Chih Yuan Woon

  • Enclave space: a new metageography of development?

    James D Sidaway

  • Triangulating the borderless world: geographies of power in the Indonesia–Malaysia–Singapore Growth Triangle

    Matthew Sparke;James D Sidaway;Tim Bunnell;Carl Grundy-Warr

  • Colonial desire: Hybridity in theory, culture and race: Robert J.C. Young, 236 pp., 1995, Routledge, London, £11.99, ISBN 0-415-05374-9

    James Derrick Sidaway

  • Sovereign excesses? Portraying postcolonial sovereigntyscapes

    J.D. Sidaway

  • Shadows on the path: negotiating geopolitics on an urban section of Britain’s South West Coast Path

    James D Sidaway

  • Geographies of Development: New Maps, New Visions?

    James D. Sidaway

  • Geography, Globalization, and the Problematic of Area Studies

    James D. Sidaway

  • Global City Frontiers: Singapore's Hinterland and the Contested Socio‐political Geographies of Bintan, Indonesia

    Tim Bunnell;Hamzah Muzaini;James D. Sidaway

  • The Degeneration of Tropical Geography

    Marcus Power;James D. Sidaway

  • Making links: on (re)engaging with transport and transport geography

    Jon Shaw;James D. Sidaway

  • Zivilmacht Europa: a critical geopolitics of the European Union as a global power

    Veit Bachmann;James D Sidaway

  • An Introduction to Human Geography: Issues for the 21st Century

    P. W. Daniels;Michael Bradshaw;Denis J. B. Shaw;James D. Sidaway

  • Financing the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): research agendas beyond the “debt-trap” discourse

    Karen P. Y. Lai;Shaun Lin;James D. Sidaway

  • Critical geopolitics: the politics of writing global space

    James Derrick Sidaway

  • Spectacular Urbanization amidst Variegated Geographies of Globalization: Learning from Abu Dhabi's Trajectory through the Lives of South Asian Men

    Robina Mohammad;James D. Sidaway

  • Introduction: Research agendas raised by the Belt and Road Initiative:

    James D Sidaway;Simon C Rowedder;Chih Yuan Woon;Weiqiang Lin

  • David Harvey: A Critical Reader

    James D. Sidaway

Frequent Co-Authors

John O'Loughlin
John O'Loughlin University of Colorado Boulder
Ron Johnston
Ron Johnston University of Bristol
Matthew Sparke
Matthew Sparke University of California, Santa Cruz
Brenda S. A. Yeoh
Brenda S. A. Yeoh National University of Singapore
Xixi Lu
Xixi Lu National University of Singapore
Peter J. Taylor
Peter J. Taylor Northumbria University
Henry Wai-chung Yeung
Henry Wai-chung Yeung Chinese University of Hong Kong
Eric Sheppard
Eric Sheppard University of California, Los Angeles
Kevin Ward
Kevin Ward University of Manchester
Trevor J. Barnes
Trevor J. Barnes University of British Columbia

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