"Can't make the conference in person? We're pleased to share that our keynote speakers will be live-streamed. Register for online access to the keynote sessions only via Eventbrite. Details here: tinyurl.com/Redefine-Confe… #GlobalChinaConference"

Why is China’s EV adoption rate so high, accounting over 50% of new car sales? One factor is China’s high-speed rail system. You don’t need to worry about EV battery range for long drives because you can take bullet trains instead. New NBER paper from Hanming Fang 🧵 1/

Pleased to welcome everyone for our Researching Global China : Innovations and Challenges Conference #researchingglobalchina

Amazing to be back at the OU on the REDEFINE_ERC conference on Global China Weiwei Chen Giles Mohan

CfP: The Lisbon Early-Career Workshop in Urban Studies, 5th ed. ICS-ULisboa. 26-28 Nov. 2025. Applications open from February 26th to April 15th, 2025. urbantransitionshub.org/2025/02/26/cfp… #urban #sociology

THANK YOU! On behalf of the REDEFINE team, we'd like to thank all that came our #ResearchingGlobalChina conference, and made it such a success! It was great to meet you!

I truly enjoyed the “Researching Global China” conference REDEFINE_ERC It’s vital for us to remain actively reflexive and ask ourselves, “What is “Chineseness”in Global China?” Giles Mohan Ken Hu 胡然 Kanenga Haggai #researching Global China #Relational-Reflexivity#Development

Many thanks to everyone for making this conference a truly thought-provoking discussion and reflection on redefining development and researching Global China!@ERedefine Giles Mohan Ken Hu 胡然 Kanenga Haggai Linda Calabrese 姜琳达 Ceren 吉兰 Ergenc Lorena Lombardozzi 🍉 https://bsky.app/profile/lor Costanza Franceschini

"Reflexivity: 10 Articles on the Role of Reflection in #Qualitative Research" Reflexivity is central to the discussions of bias, “qualitative literacy,” gathering data in the field, & conducting research with the most vulnerable & marginalized populations bit.ly/2zE0BTV

Early Career Research Grant Scheme (£ 10,000) provided by the Regional Studies Association. Apply by 12th May 2025. regionalstudies.org/funding/early-… #urban #sociology

New short article out in Dialogues in Human Geography! I offer a historical sketch and a conceptual framework tracing the formation of legal regimes of investment control in the dialectics of empire and capital. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20… Politics and International Studies Cambridge Cambridge Centre of Development Studies (1/3)

🔌 23 years, 96 countries, 745 🇨🇳China's overseas power plants, 1,542 power units + 177 GW of power plant capacity. Explore the projects and latest data in the China's Global Power Database: gdpcenter.org/3Sxa1oX

This is huge: China's emissions are reversing. China has cleverly used industrialization to vastly improve capabilities in clean energy production. It's extremely hard to grow fast and reduce emissions at the same time. But China is showing us that it can be done.

Economics is fundamentally political. Economics is shaped by ideologies, human values, competing interests, social norms, and political priorities. Be sceptical of economists who tell you that their field free from politics.

OnlineFirst - "Land, values, and valuation work: Moral imaginaries of land markets in England and Germany" by Alexander Dobeson: #landmarkets #valuation #imaginaries #fictitiouscommodities #morality journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

Excited to back to those industrial parks where I stayed 13 months during my PhD fieldwork in Ethiopia.

This article in thirdworldq examines how Mainland Chinese immigrants learn about their Chineseness as a sign of difference and how they apply the tool of racial capital to manage the ‘othering’ process (such as concealing Chineseness and reassessing Hong Kongers’ identity).

"in the course of 25 years of reform and opening, Chinese results have been quite extraordinary, but I have yet to find an entirely satisfactory explanation for this. In fact, from the early 1980s through the early 1990s, no one in the Western academy approved of China’s