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Bounded contention: locating the politics of citizens in contemporary China.
This meeting is joint with Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule Of Law.
The next meeting of the Aberdeen Chinese Studies Group will be held at 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday, 11 November in Room F61, Edward Wright Building, Old Aberdeen. Sophia Woodman, Department of Sociology, University of Edinburgh, will speak on “Bounded contention: locating the politics of citizens in contemporary China”.
Sophla Woodman is a Chancellor's Fellow in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include citizenship, human rights, law and social movements incontemporary China. She also studies asymmetry and formal autonomy in state systems, which is the subject of her recent edited book (with Yash Ghai),practising self-government: a comparative study ofautonomous regions (Cambridge,2013). She joined Sociology at Edinburgh in 2013, after completing her PhD at the University of British Coiumbia in Vancouver. Prior to becoming an academic, she worked in the NGO sector doing research and advocacy on human rights lssues.
This will be a meeting held jointly with the Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL) (See www.abdn.ac.uk/cisrul/).
All welcome, free of charge.
- Speaker
- Sophla Woodman
- Hosted by
- University of Aberdeen Chinese Studies Group
- Venue
- Room F61, Edward Wright Building, Old Aberdeen
- Contact
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All welcome, free of charge.