China, Southeast Asia, and Geopolitical Dynamics in 2025Lived Geopolitics in the South China Sea

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Edyta Roszko is a Research Professor and social anthropologist at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway. She is leading the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant project Transoceanic Fishers: Multiple Mobilities in and out of the South China Sea (TransOcean) that historicizes fishing communities in relation to and beyond the nation-state, security concerns and territorially bounded fisheries. Edyta’s newly awarded ERC Consolidator Grant project Global Hydroconnectivities beyond Ocean, Seas and Rivers combines anthropology, archaeology and geohydrology and contributes to the wider discussion on global Indigenous history and its relevance in the era of climate changes. Edyta is the author of Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State, Religion and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam co-published by NIAS and the University of Hawai’i Press.

Shaun Lin is Lecturer at NUS College of the National University of Singapore. Shaun's research interests are in political geography (particularly the geopolitics of Southeast Asia and China), border studies (land and maritime), environmental politics, and geography pedagogy. Shaun serves as Social Media Editor for Space and Polity, and Book Review Co-Editor for the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. He is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Geography in Higher Education.

Patricio N. Abinales retired from the Department of Asian Studies, University of Hawai'i-Manoa, in 2025. He was a visiting research fellow at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, from March to August 2025, where he was working on a book project on the University of the Philippines and the Marcos Dictatorship.

Moderator: Petrice Flowers is the Professor and Director for the Center for Indo-Pacific Affairs at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa