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UM academic gets Best Research Paper Award at PSSIR 2012

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Dr. Peter Zabielskis
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Dr. Peter Zabielskis, assistant professor from the University of Macau’s (UM) Department of Sociology, was the sole recipient of the Best Research Paper Award at the second Annual International Conference on Political Science, Sociology & International Relations (PSSIR 2012).

 

Participants of the conference represented universities from around the world, including Macao, Canada, the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, Turkey, Greece, Lebanon, India, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia and Indonesia. They presented and exchanged new ideas on research that draws on discipline-specific and inter-disciplinary studies in political science, sociology and international relations, which help shape the opinions of the public, institutions and policy-makers.

 

Dr. Peter Zabielskis’s paper was entitled “The Environment with Chinese Characteristics: Implications for Policy, Governance, and Political Change”. The primary research questions asked in the paper include: Is there any relationship between current environmental problems and ways of thinking about or acting on them and the possibility of political change? Do newly emerging forms of environmental consciousness now replace other forms of political consciousness in China, such as class, given a new climate of prosperity and the rise of both capitalist enterprise and middle-class concerns about consumption and quality of life?     

 

Dr. Peter Zabielskis received his PhD degree from New York University and is currently teaching at UM. His research interests include material culture, art, architecture, identity, religion, civil society, development, and urban space in Macao, China, and Southeast Asia, especially Malaysia, where he has conducted extensive field research. He recently published an article entitled “Towards a Moral Ecology of the City: A new form of place-based identity and social action in Penang, Malaysia” in the International Development Planning Review.

 

 

Should you have any inquiries about the press release, please feel free to contact Ms. Kay Lai at(853)8397 4325 or kaylai@um.edu.mo or visit UM webpage www.umac.mo.

 

 


17/10/2012