CIDEG Salon No.120
NIMBY, Malaysian style: The case of the Lynas rare earth plant
TIME: 15:00-17:00, June 10th(Wed), 2015
Venue: Room 609, School of Public Policy and Management
Speaker: Yew Wei Lit PhD candidate in the Department of Asian and International
Studies, City University of Hong Kong
Moderator: CHEN Ling Associate Prof. of School of Public Policy and Management, Vice-Director of CIDEG
Commentator: XU Jianhua Associate Prof. of the College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering of Peking University
Host: Center for Industrial Development and Environmental Governance, Tsinghua University
Introduction：
From 2011 to 2013, a local opposition against an Australian-owned rare earth refinery plant, emerged into the largest environmental protest ever seen in Malaysia. Yew will share his data collected during his preliminary fieldwork in Malaysia, describing the state-society interactions throughout this conflict. With an analysis of the unique socio-political configuration, he will trace the origins and implications of the conflict, which may find parallels with experiences beyond Malaysia.
Yew Wei Lit received his degrees from Multimedia University, Malaysia and the London School of Economics and Political Science. With an interdisciplinary perspective, his PhD research is a comparative qualitative analysis of environmental conflict and government responses in Asia, with a major focus on China and Malaysia.
