跟着工头去打工
International time: 21:00 Beijing, 15:00 Oslo, 09:00 Washington DC.
Julia Chuang’s presentation is based on her book Beneath the China Boom: Labor, Citizenship, and the Making of a Rural Land Market (University of California Press 2020). Xinrong Ma will give the talk “Runaway Nora” : Liangshan Yi women workers in co-ethnic brokerage system, on gender and ethnic Yi labor brokerage.
Julia Chuang
Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston College. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA from Harvard University. Her research focuses on the transformation of rural China and its implications for China's economic development. She has published articles on land politics and China's shift from labor-intensive manufacturing to land-intensive urbanization. Her recent book, Beneath the China Boom: Labor, Citizenship, and the Making of a Rural Land Market, was published by UC Press in 2020.
Xinrong Ma
Dr Ma is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Political Science, School of Government, Sun Yat-Sen University, China. She holds a PhD in Chinese Studies is from the Institute of Area Study, Leiden University. She has published several journal articles on the theme of ethnic minority labor migration and citizenship and is the author of the PhD thesis 'Entrapment by Consent': The Co-ethnic Brokerage System among Ethnic Yi Labor Migrants in China (“合意的圈套” : 彝族打工者的劳务中介).
Yunyun Zhou
Dr Zhou is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Oslo and will chair the seminar. She completed an MSc in Sociology and PhD in Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Oxford (2020). She previously taught at Sciences Po Paris.
Heidi Østbø Haugen
The seminar series is hosted by Heidi Østbø Haugen, professor of China Studies at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages. She heads the ERC-funded project Brokering China’s Extraversion: An Ethnographic Analysis of Transnational Arbitration (Brokex).
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春天故事40年
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新型大国关系
Date and time: 3 March 2021. 22:00 (Beijing), 15:00 (Oslo), 09:00 (EST). Sign-up.
Manjari Chatterjee Miller: Why Nations Rise: Narratives and the Path to Great Power
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Discussant: Ilaria Carrozza
Brokers of Aspirations: Education and Cosmopolitanism
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Date and time: 5 May 2021. 22:00 (Beijing), 15:00 (Oslo), 09:00 (EST). Sign-up.
Shuning Liu: Neoliberalism, Globalization, and "Elite" Education in China: Becoming International
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Bingyu Wang: New Chinese Migrants in New Zealand: Becoming Cosmopolitan? Roots, Emotions, and Everyday Diversity
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Discussant: Yi’En Cheng
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Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages
The seminar is organized as part of the project Brokering China’s Extraversion: An Ethnographic Analysis of Transnational Arbitration (Brokex). The project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 802070).
