Kylie Poon
Biography
My current research focuses on the work and everyday life experiences of Southeast Asian male migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong, especially how they negotiate gender roles and norms while working in a female-dominated occupation. My other research interests include the characteristics and outcomes of urban renewal in Hong Kong and Singaporean neighborhoods, and the encounters between humans and the more-than-human in wet markets in Hong Kong.
Education
Bachelor of Social Sciences (Major in Geography and Urban Governance), The University of Hong Kong, 2022
Selected Publications
Gerlofs, B.A., Iaquinto, B.L., Poon, K.Y.N. & Tsang, C.T.Y. (2024). Tank to Table: Hong Kong’s Wet Markets and the Geographies of Lively Commodification Beyond Companionship. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2024.2304200
Grants & Awards
External:
2024 Landscape Photography Competition – People’s Choice Award, Landscape Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers
2024 Student Award, Population Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers
2024 Master’s Level Research Award, Cultural Geography Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers
2024 American Association of Geographers Student Travel Grant
2023 Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Travel Grant for Students
2023 LxG Mutual Aid Award, Latinx Geographies Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers
2023 Todd Reynolds Student Paper Award, Disability Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers
2023 Photo Competition – Judge’s Choice Winner, Cultural Geography Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers
2023 Health Data Visualization Contest – Static Visualization Award, Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers
2023 Logo Design Competition – 2nd Prize Winner, Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers
2022 Royal Geographical Society – Hong Kong Undergraduate Research Grant
2022 Glenda Laws Undergraduate Student Paper Award, Urban Geography Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers
University of California, Los Angeles
2023 – 2024 Conference Travel Award, UCLA Department of Geography
2023 Doctoral Student Travel Grants for Conferences, Professional Development, and Off-Campus Research, UCLA Graduate Division
2023 Graduate Dean’s Scholar Award, UCLA Graduate Division
The University of Hong Kong:
2022 Hui Oi Chow Prize in Geography, HKU Department of Geography
2021 The 1973 Geography Graduates Scholarship, HKU Department of Geography
2021 Undergraduate Research Fellowship Programme Research Internship Award, HKU Faculty of Social Sciences
2020 Evergreen Scholarships for Student Enrichment, HKU International Affairs Office
2019 Subsidy on Exchange to “Belt and Road” Regions for Post-secondary Students, HKU International Affairs Office
2018 Entrance Scholarship Award, HKU Admissions Office
Courses & Presentations
Conference Presentations:
Kylie Yuet Ning Poon & Cathy Tung Yee Tsang, “Excessive Hybridities: Visual Methods and the Politics of Failure in Hong Kong’s Wet Markets.” Planetary Inhabitations, Connections & Futures session, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers 2024, 19 April 2024, Honolulu.
Kylie Yuet Ning Poon, “States of Compulsion: Reassessing ‘State-led’ Neighborhood Change in Hong Kong.” Urban, Local, Neighborhoods session, 2024 Political Geography Specialty Group Pre-Conference, 15 April 2024, Honolulu.
Kylie Yuet Ning Poon, “Home Sweet Home? Constructions of Home and Perceptions of Urban Redevelopment among South Asian migrants and Hong Kong residents in the contested space of Sham Shui Po.” Urban Social Systems session, The University of Hong Kong Urban Systems Institute Inaugural Conference, 11 January 2024, Hong Kong.
Kylie Yuet Ning Poon & Cathy Tung Yee Tsang, “Excessive Hybridities: Visual Methods and the Politics of Failure in Hong Kong’s Wet Markets.” Reimagining Boundaries and Environments in East Asia: Geopolitics, Ecologies, and Hybrid Spaces (I) session, East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography _ Global Political Economy, 12 December 2023, Hong Kong.
Kylie Yuet Ning Poon, “Home Sweet Home? Constructions of Home and Perceptions of Urban Redevelopment among South Asian migrants and Hong Kong residents in the contested space of Sham Shui Po.” Doctoral Student Paper Competition session, 2023 Urban China Research Network Conference, 29 October 2023, Beijing.
Kylie Yuet Ning Poon, “Home Sweet Home? Constructions of Home and Perceptions of Urban Redevelopment among South Asian migrants and Hong Kong residents in the contested space of Sham Shui Po.” Virtual Paper session, Association of Pacific Coast Geographers 85th Annual Conference, 20 October 2023, Virtual.
Kylie Yuet Ning Poon, “Tank to Table: Hong Kong’s Lively Commodities Beyond Companionship.” Unpacking Hong Kong’s Cultural Mosaic: Exploring the Intersections of Nature, Society, and Culture session, Society of Hong Kong Studies Annual Conference, 16 June 2023, Hong Kong.
Kylie Yuet Ning Poon & Cathy Tung Yee Tsang, “Tank to Table: Hong Kong’s Lively Commodities Beyond Companionship.” Decentering the human: More-than-human geographies session, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers 2023, 25 March 2023, Denver.
Kylie Yuet Ning Poon, “States of Compulsion: Reassessing ‘State-led’ Neighborhood Change in Hong Kong.” Economic and Urban Geography session, Hong Kong Geography Day 2022, Hong Kong Geographical Association, 26 November 2022, Hong Kong.
Kylie Yuet Ning Poon & Ben Alan Gerlofs, “States of Compulsion: Reassessing ‘State-led’ Neighborhood Change in Hong Kong.” Contesting “VIP” Urbanism session, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers 2022, 26 February 2022, Virtual.
Conference Panels:
Panelist on “Author Meets Critics for Dr. Ben Gerlofs’ ‘Monstrous Politics: Geography, Rights, and the Urban Revolution in Mexico City’.” Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers 2024, 19 April 2024, Honolulu.
