Academic Background
PhD Political Science, Sciences Po Paris
Research Master’s degree Comparative Politics, Asia, Sciences Po Paris
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Research Interest
- Urban anthropology, urban exploration and the study of Chinese cities
- The ethnography of economic decline: a study on shrinking cities in mainland China
- Political sociology: new perspectives on the intermediary bodies of the PRC (mass organizations, residents' committees, etc.)
- Political ethnography: a study on micro-local power networks in three neighbourhoods of Beijing
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Current Research
- Urban exploration: abandoned places and contemporary ruins in the PRC
- A sociology of the declining coal industry in Datong (Shanxi): shantytown renewal in the Mining District and the incomplete reconversion of the city
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Courses Offered
CHES5106 |
Selected Themes on Chinese Anthropology - Culture and Society in China |
CHES5135 |
State and Civil Society in Contemporary China |
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Selected Publications
2017 |
"Civic duty, moral responsibility and games of reciprocity: an ethnography of resident-volunteers in Beiing’s neighbourhoods", China Perspectives. |
2015 |
"Governing through the neighbourhood community in China, an ethnography of the participatory bureaucratization of residents’ committees in Beijing", Revue Française de Science Politique, vol. 65, n1, p. 85-110. |
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