Since completing my first book, I have been pursuing the following projects, all of which speak to my interest in the growing significance of science and technology in politics, economy, and society.
In the first project, I expand my previous work on the public sphere to examine four overlapping discursive arenas--China’s national public sphere and national expert sphere, the transnational public sphere and the transnational expert sphere--using the human genome editing controversy as an example. The second project examines the evolving modes of labor control--including technological, legal, and organizational control--as well as their the relationship with labor contention in the platform economy. In the third project, I consider the role of the developmental state in automation and the state-capital-worker relations. The fourth project aims to analyze the Chinese state's efforts to upgrade the economy and the social consequences of such efforts. In addition to the four projects, I have also conducted fieldwork in France to examine platform economy there.
- Publics, scientists, and the state: mapping the human genome editing controversy (an R&R paper)
- Platform economy ( an R&R paper)
- Upgrading China through automation: manufacturers, workers, and the developmental state (an R&R paper)
- Upgrading the Nation: The Iron Cage of Techno-Developmentalism in China (a book project under contract with the Princeton University Press)
In the first project, I expand my previous work on the public sphere to examine four overlapping discursive arenas--China’s national public sphere and national expert sphere, the transnational public sphere and the transnational expert sphere--using the human genome editing controversy as an example. The second project examines the evolving modes of labor control--including technological, legal, and organizational control--as well as their the relationship with labor contention in the platform economy. In the third project, I consider the role of the developmental state in automation and the state-capital-worker relations. The fourth project aims to analyze the Chinese state's efforts to upgrade the economy and the social consequences of such efforts. In addition to the four projects, I have also conducted fieldwork in France to examine platform economy there.
