Joy Yueyue Zhang
Biographic Data
| ID | 285786 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joy Yueyue Zhang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joy Yueyue |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhang |
| SIGNATURE | ZHANG J Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0384-8376 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Thirty years on
This article is an interview between the guest editors of this monograph issue and Xingjuan Wang, a Chinese feminist activist and a co-founder of the Maple Women’s Psychological Counseling Hotline, one of the earliest grassroots initiatives supporting women facing domestic violence in China. Xingjuan Wang was present at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. In this exchange, she reflects on her work as well as the impact of the…
Scandalous ‘firsts’ from the Global South? The entanglement between epistemic injustice and Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)
This paper examines the critical role of epistemic injustice in Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), particularly through the lens of reproductive medicine scandals in the Global South. It unpacks the perception of the Global South as a hotbed for scandalous ‘firsts.’ That is, there seems to be a tendency for these regions to chase major scientific breakthroughs and global recognition, often at the cost of transgressing scientific and/or et…
Rethinking science diplomacy and global biosecurity
The changing organization and nature of biotechnology and bio-innovations have led to the global phenomenon of ‘science at large’. This has given rise to two key trends in global biosecurity governance: the growing role of science diplomacy in addressing biosecurity concerns and the rise of distributed agencies, particularly involving young practitioners from the global South, who are participating in a decentralization of western-dominated biose…
Decolonizing the temporal and relational assumptions in contemporary science and science policies
The concept of decolonization was originally proposed as an epistemic project that focused on anti-hegemonic endeavors to counter power imbalances. However, in recent years, it has become a buzz word across different fields in the Global North, often slipping into a tokenistic exercise. This paper argues that the decolonizing promise of moving beyond power asymmetries and acquiring the ability ‘to think from and with’ others will not be fulfilled…
To Procrastinate or Not to Procrastinate
As global public health is under threat by the 2019-nCoV and a potential new wave of large-scale epidemic outbreak and spread is looming, an imminent question to ask is what the optimal strategy of epidemic prevention and control (P&C) measures would be, especially in terms of the timing of enforcing aggressive policy response so as to maximize health efficacy and to contain pandemic spread. Based on the current global pandemic statistic data, he…
(Bio)politics of existence and social change
How can we break away from a fixation on top-down power dynamics and track the impact of social movements in societies that do not easily fit with Western neoliberal theorisations? Building on Foucault's insights on governance, this article proposes an analytical lens of the 'biopolitics of existence' to address this problem. The term existence refers not simply to the 'corporeal' needs of survival (be it of an individual or an organisation) but …
Just Sustainability’ or Just Sustainability? Shanghai’s Failed Drive for Global Excellence
A persistent challenge to deliver a socially just and ecologically sustainable development for emerging cities in non-Western countries is that legitimacy and effectiveness often hinge on the normalizing effect of international ‘models’ and ‘standards’ defined by the developed countries. In cases such as Shanghai’s latest urban sustainability programme, a fixation on excelling at ‘global indicators’ has led its promises of inclusive social progre…
The transformative power of commoning and alternative food networks
A commoning framework offers a critical lens to fully appreciate the scope and impact of alternative food networks (AFNs). Fieldwork from an AFN in southern China is drawn upon to show how commoning enacts changes in how members contextualise and anchor their social relations to one another with regards to sourcing food as a commons. A commoning framework gives a fuller picture of how the constitutive effects of AFNs reside not in their introduct…
How to Be Modern? The Social Negotiation of 'Good Food' in Contemporary China
Developing safe and sustainable food production for its population has been central to China's 'Modernisation Project'. Yet recent fieldwork in three Chinese cities suggests that there are two conflicting views on what a 'modern' agriculture should look like. For the government, modernisation implies a rational calculation of scale and a mirroring of global trends. But an alternative interpretation of modernity, promoted by civil society, has bee…
Cosmopolitan risk community in a bowl
Ulrich Beck fundamentally transformed our way of thinking about human interdependence through his three core theses on risk, individualisation and cosmopolitanisation. However, two commonly observed deficiencies in Beck’s grand theory were its Eurocentric orientation and a lack of empirical grounding. Based on 5 focus groups and 14 interviews with participants of the emerging Clean Food Movement in China, this paper extends the Beckian discussion…
The ‘credibility paradox’ in China’s science communication
In contrast to increasing debates on China’s rising status as a global scientific power, issues of China’s science communication remain under-explored. Based on 21 in-depth interviews in three cities, this article examines Chinese scientists’ accounts of the entangled web of influence which conditions the process of how scientific knowledge achieves (or fails to achieve) its civic authority. A main finding of this study is a ‘credibility paradox’…
Cosmopolitan risk community and China's climate governance
Ulrich Beck asserts that global risks, such as climate change, generate a form of 'compulsory cosmopolitanism', which 'glues' various actors into collective action. Through an analysis of emerging 'cosmopolitan risk communities' in Chinese climate governance, this article points out a 'blind spot' in the theorization of cosmopolitan belonging and an associated inadequacy in explaining shifting power relations. The article addresses this problem b…
Cosmopolitan communities of climate risk
Mitigating human-induced climate change calls for a globalized change of consciousness and practice. These global challenges also demand a double transformation of the social sciences - first, from 'methodological nationalism' to 'methodological cosmopolitanism' and, second, an empirical reorientation towards 'cosmopolitization' as the social force of emerging cosmopolitan realities. One of these realities is the possible emergence, locally and g…
Recasting subjectivity through the lenses
Visual imagery in environmental politics can be an effective way to engage the public. However, research based on 21 interviewees with activists from nine environmental non-governmental organisations (ENGOs) in China suggests that the value of images in promoting environmental initiatives is not limited to the exhibition of them, but is also seen in the making of them. Increasingly in China, ENGOs are offering free natural photographic tutoring t…
Emerging Reflexivity in Transnational Communication
The significance of transnational networking for the development of stem cell science is multilayered. Firstly, due to its complexity, stem cell research requires a wide range of experts working together, such as molecular, cellular and developmental biology, tissue engineering, immunology and genetics, transplantation biology and clinical medicine. For China, a country with a relatively underdeveloped research base, this is a ‘major challenge’ (…
Cosmopolitanization and China’s Stem Cell Research
It is almost a cliché to say that we are in a globalized world. This may be especially true for the life sciences. Thanks to the development of telecommunications and information technology, the latest research findings seem to be at the command of one’s fingertips. With international travel made easy and surging R&D (research and development) investments in Asia, the world scientific atlas is covered with complex and interwoven networks of human…
Stem Cell Therapy and the Governance of Uncertainty
In her recent study on China’s stem cell research, Margaret SleeboomFaulkner argued that a ‘risk-based approach’ is the key to comprehending the development of bioethics and research governance in China. More specifically, she found that among Chinese scientists, ‘a global awareness and reflection exists of the different risk signatures of the “same” technology, i.e. human embryonic stem cell research, in different global institutional settings’ …
Conclusion
The globalization of science has received much attention. Among the more optimistic viewpoints is the popular slogan ‘think locally, act globally’ celebrated by many policy strategists such as Caroline Wagner (2008). According to advocates of globalization, a transnational coalition is founded not on a ‘one world culture’, but on the basis of a dialogue among ‘diverse but practicing’ world members (Conley, 2002), or what Mohamed Hassan (2007), Ex…
Tizhi Wenti I
As sociologist Craig Calhoun rightly pointed out, ‘cosmopolitanism and nationalism are mutually constitutive’ (Calhoun, 2007, p. 13). Despite the fact that cosmopolitanization has highlighted the significance of the contribution from a range of non-state actors, including the empowerment of concerned individuals, cosmopolitanization is not restricted to social movements ‘from below’ (Beck, 2006, p. 81), as demonstrated in Chapter 4. It also requi…
Tizhi Wenti II
As suggested at the beginning of Chapter 5, many respondents shared a concern that China's stem cell research could have progressed more efficiently if 'tizhi wenti', roughly translated as the 'system problem', was properly attended to. The last chapter discussed the 'ti' (structural) aspect of the 'tizhi wenti', namely the social organization of stem cell research in China. This chapter turns to the second part of the question; that is, current …
Research Motivations for Stem Cell Research
Chapter 2 points out that scientists’ enquiries about stem cell regulatory guidance have gradually gained prominence among Chinese ethicists and regulators since 2000. This need, voiced by different laboratories, correlates with an expanding number of stem cell researchers in China. Among the 38 Chinese researchers I interviewed, only five were associated with stem cell-related research prior to 1995: one worked on the pathology of atherosclerosi…
Regulatory Framework and Early Administrative Rationales
In order to examine how the practice of China’s stem cell research has evolved through transnational exchanges, or how research in China has been ‘cosmopolitanized’, it is necessary first to understand how the scientific system functioned at the onset of stem cell research. This provides us with a point of reference to identify subsequent changes in China. Therefore this chapter gives an overview of the regulatory background in the early stages o…
The Cosmopolitanization of Science
Focussing on China's stem cell research, this book investigates how, over the last decade, Chinese scientists, ethicists and policy-makers have developed a cosmopolitan sensibility in comprehending an
Scientific institutions and effective governance
In terms of stem cell research, China appears both as a "powerhouse" armed with state-of-the-art facilities, internationally trained personnel and permissive regulation and as a "bit player," with its capability for conducting high quality research still in question. The gap between China's assiduous endeavors and the observed outcome is due to a number of factors. Based on interviews with 48 key stakeholders active in Chinese stem cell research,…
The organization of scientists and its relation to scientific productivity
Cosmopolitan communities of climate risk
Mitigating human-induced climate change calls for a globalized change of consciousness and practice. These global challenges also demand a double transformation of the social sciences - first, from 'methodological nationalism' to 'methodological cosmopolitanism' and, second, an empirical reorientation towards 'cosmopolitization' as the social force of emerging cosmopolitan realities. One of these realities is the possible emergence, locally and g…
Cosmopolitan risk community in a bowl
Ulrich Beck fundamentally transformed our way of thinking about human interdependence through his three core theses on risk, individualisation and cosmopolitanisation. However, two commonly observed deficiencies in Beck’s grand theory were its Eurocentric orientation and a lack of empirical grounding. Based on 5 focus groups and 14 interviews with participants of the emerging Clean Food Movement in China, this paper extends the Beckian discussion…
The transformative power of commoning and alternative food networks
A commoning framework offers a critical lens to fully appreciate the scope and impact of alternative food networks (AFNs). Fieldwork from an AFN in southern China is drawn upon to show how commoning enacts changes in how members contextualise and anchor their social relations to one another with regards to sourcing food as a commons. A commoning framework gives a fuller picture of how the constitutive effects of AFNs reside not in their introduct…
Recasting subjectivity through the lenses
Visual imagery in environmental politics can be an effective way to engage the public. However, research based on 21 interviewees with activists from nine environmental non-governmental organisations (ENGOs) in China suggests that the value of images in promoting environmental initiatives is not limited to the exhibition of them, but is also seen in the making of them. Increasingly in China, ENGOs are offering free natural photographic tutoring t…
Just Sustainability’ or Just Sustainability? Shanghai’s Failed Drive for Global Excellence
A persistent challenge to deliver a socially just and ecologically sustainable development for emerging cities in non-Western countries is that legitimacy and effectiveness often hinge on the normalizing effect of international ‘models’ and ‘standards’ defined by the developed countries. In cases such as Shanghai’s latest urban sustainability programme, a fixation on excelling at ‘global indicators’ has led its promises of inclusive social progre…
How to Be Modern? The Social Negotiation of 'Good Food' in Contemporary China
Developing safe and sustainable food production for its population has been central to China's 'Modernisation Project'. Yet recent fieldwork in three Chinese cities suggests that there are two conflicting views on what a 'modern' agriculture should look like. For the government, modernisation implies a rational calculation of scale and a mirroring of global trends. But an alternative interpretation of modernity, promoted by civil society, has bee…
Decolonizing the temporal and relational assumptions in contemporary science and science policies
The concept of decolonization was originally proposed as an epistemic project that focused on anti-hegemonic endeavors to counter power imbalances. However, in recent years, it has become a buzz word across different fields in the Global North, often slipping into a tokenistic exercise. This paper argues that the decolonizing promise of moving beyond power asymmetries and acquiring the ability ‘to think from and with’ others will not be fulfilled…
Cosmopolitan risk community and China's climate governance
Ulrich Beck asserts that global risks, such as climate change, generate a form of 'compulsory cosmopolitanism', which 'glues' various actors into collective action. Through an analysis of emerging 'cosmopolitan risk communities' in Chinese climate governance, this article points out a 'blind spot' in the theorization of cosmopolitan belonging and an associated inadequacy in explaining shifting power relations. The article addresses this problem b…
The Cosmopolitization of Science
Soziale Welt is one of the important journals within German sociology and is even read in foreign countries. It includes empirical and theoretical contributions from all areas of the subject and tries to portray the development of sociology and to give a new impetus. In addition to the quarterly published issues, there are special issues with a unified theme. The journal "Soziale Welt" is aimed at sociologists, social scientists, and at generally…
The organization of scientists and its relation to scientific productivity
The Cosmopolitization of Science
Soziale Welt is one of the important journals within German sociology and is even read in foreign countries. It includes empirical and theoretical contributions from all areas of the subject and tries to portray the development of sociology and to give a new impetus. In addition to the quarterly published issues, there are special issues with a unified theme. The journal "Soziale Welt" is aimed at sociologists, social scientists, and at generally…
Scientific institutions and effective governance
In terms of stem cell research, China appears both as a "powerhouse" armed with state-of-the-art facilities, internationally trained personnel and permissive regulation and as a "bit player," with its capability for conducting high quality research still in question. The gap between China's assiduous endeavors and the observed outcome is due to a number of factors. Based on interviews with 48 key stakeholders active in Chinese stem cell research,…
Emerging Reflexivity in Transnational Communication
The significance of transnational networking for the development of stem cell science is multilayered. Firstly, due to its complexity, stem cell research requires a wide range of experts working together, such as molecular, cellular and developmental biology, tissue engineering, immunology and genetics, transplantation biology and clinical medicine. For China, a country with a relatively underdeveloped research base, this is a ‘major challenge’ (…
Cosmopolitanization and China’s Stem Cell Research
It is almost a cliché to say that we are in a globalized world. This may be especially true for the life sciences. Thanks to the development of telecommunications and information technology, the latest research findings seem to be at the command of one’s fingertips. With international travel made easy and surging R&D (research and development) investments in Asia, the world scientific atlas is covered with complex and interwoven networks of human…
Stem Cell Therapy and the Governance of Uncertainty
In her recent study on China’s stem cell research, Margaret SleeboomFaulkner argued that a ‘risk-based approach’ is the key to comprehending the development of bioethics and research governance in China. More specifically, she found that among Chinese scientists, ‘a global awareness and reflection exists of the different risk signatures of the “same” technology, i.e. human embryonic stem cell research, in different global institutional settings’ …
Conclusion
The globalization of science has received much attention. Among the more optimistic viewpoints is the popular slogan ‘think locally, act globally’ celebrated by many policy strategists such as Caroline Wagner (2008). According to advocates of globalization, a transnational coalition is founded not on a ‘one world culture’, but on the basis of a dialogue among ‘diverse but practicing’ world members (Conley, 2002), or what Mohamed Hassan (2007), Ex…
Tizhi Wenti I
As sociologist Craig Calhoun rightly pointed out, ‘cosmopolitanism and nationalism are mutually constitutive’ (Calhoun, 2007, p. 13). Despite the fact that cosmopolitanization has highlighted the significance of the contribution from a range of non-state actors, including the empowerment of concerned individuals, cosmopolitanization is not restricted to social movements ‘from below’ (Beck, 2006, p. 81), as demonstrated in Chapter 4. It also requi…
Tizhi Wenti II
As suggested at the beginning of Chapter 5, many respondents shared a concern that China's stem cell research could have progressed more efficiently if 'tizhi wenti', roughly translated as the 'system problem', was properly attended to. The last chapter discussed the 'ti' (structural) aspect of the 'tizhi wenti', namely the social organization of stem cell research in China. This chapter turns to the second part of the question; that is, current …
Research Motivations for Stem Cell Research
Chapter 2 points out that scientists’ enquiries about stem cell regulatory guidance have gradually gained prominence among Chinese ethicists and regulators since 2000. This need, voiced by different laboratories, correlates with an expanding number of stem cell researchers in China. Among the 38 Chinese researchers I interviewed, only five were associated with stem cell-related research prior to 1995: one worked on the pathology of atherosclerosi…
Regulatory Framework and Early Administrative Rationales
In order to examine how the practice of China’s stem cell research has evolved through transnational exchanges, or how research in China has been ‘cosmopolitanized’, it is necessary first to understand how the scientific system functioned at the onset of stem cell research. This provides us with a point of reference to identify subsequent changes in China. Therefore this chapter gives an overview of the regulatory background in the early stages o…
The Cosmopolitanization of Science
Focussing on China's stem cell research, this book investigates how, over the last decade, Chinese scientists, ethicists and policy-makers have developed a cosmopolitan sensibility in comprehending an
Cosmopolitan communities of climate risk
Mitigating human-induced climate change calls for a globalized change of consciousness and practice. These global challenges also demand a double transformation of the social sciences - first, from 'methodological nationalism' to 'methodological cosmopolitanism' and, second, an empirical reorientation towards 'cosmopolitization' as the social force of emerging cosmopolitan realities. One of these realities is the possible emergence, locally and g…
Recasting subjectivity through the lenses
Visual imagery in environmental politics can be an effective way to engage the public. However, research based on 21 interviewees with activists from nine environmental non-governmental organisations (ENGOs) in China suggests that the value of images in promoting environmental initiatives is not limited to the exhibition of them, but is also seen in the making of them. Increasingly in China, ENGOs are offering free natural photographic tutoring t…
The ‘credibility paradox’ in China’s science communication
In contrast to increasing debates on China’s rising status as a global scientific power, issues of China’s science communication remain under-explored. Based on 21 in-depth interviews in three cities, this article examines Chinese scientists’ accounts of the entangled web of influence which conditions the process of how scientific knowledge achieves (or fails to achieve) its civic authority. A main finding of this study is a ‘credibility paradox’…
Cosmopolitan risk community and China's climate governance
Ulrich Beck asserts that global risks, such as climate change, generate a form of 'compulsory cosmopolitanism', which 'glues' various actors into collective action. Through an analysis of emerging 'cosmopolitan risk communities' in Chinese climate governance, this article points out a 'blind spot' in the theorization of cosmopolitan belonging and an associated inadequacy in explaining shifting power relations. The article addresses this problem b…
Cosmopolitan risk community in a bowl
Ulrich Beck fundamentally transformed our way of thinking about human interdependence through his three core theses on risk, individualisation and cosmopolitanisation. However, two commonly observed deficiencies in Beck’s grand theory were its Eurocentric orientation and a lack of empirical grounding. Based on 5 focus groups and 14 interviews with participants of the emerging Clean Food Movement in China, this paper extends the Beckian discussion…
How to Be Modern? The Social Negotiation of 'Good Food' in Contemporary China
Developing safe and sustainable food production for its population has been central to China's 'Modernisation Project'. Yet recent fieldwork in three Chinese cities suggests that there are two conflicting views on what a 'modern' agriculture should look like. For the government, modernisation implies a rational calculation of scale and a mirroring of global trends. But an alternative interpretation of modernity, promoted by civil society, has bee…
The transformative power of commoning and alternative food networks
A commoning framework offers a critical lens to fully appreciate the scope and impact of alternative food networks (AFNs). Fieldwork from an AFN in southern China is drawn upon to show how commoning enacts changes in how members contextualise and anchor their social relations to one another with regards to sourcing food as a commons. A commoning framework gives a fuller picture of how the constitutive effects of AFNs reside not in their introduct…
Just Sustainability’ or Just Sustainability? Shanghai’s Failed Drive for Global Excellence
A persistent challenge to deliver a socially just and ecologically sustainable development for emerging cities in non-Western countries is that legitimacy and effectiveness often hinge on the normalizing effect of international ‘models’ and ‘standards’ defined by the developed countries. In cases such as Shanghai’s latest urban sustainability programme, a fixation on excelling at ‘global indicators’ has led its promises of inclusive social progre…
To Procrastinate or Not to Procrastinate
As global public health is under threat by the 2019-nCoV and a potential new wave of large-scale epidemic outbreak and spread is looming, an imminent question to ask is what the optimal strategy of epidemic prevention and control (P&C) measures would be, especially in terms of the timing of enforcing aggressive policy response so as to maximize health efficacy and to contain pandemic spread. Based on the current global pandemic statistic data, he…
(Bio)politics of existence and social change
How can we break away from a fixation on top-down power dynamics and track the impact of social movements in societies that do not easily fit with Western neoliberal theorisations? Building on Foucault's insights on governance, this article proposes an analytical lens of the 'biopolitics of existence' to address this problem. The term existence refers not simply to the 'corporeal' needs of survival (be it of an individual or an organisation) but …
Decolonizing the temporal and relational assumptions in contemporary science and science policies
The concept of decolonization was originally proposed as an epistemic project that focused on anti-hegemonic endeavors to counter power imbalances. However, in recent years, it has become a buzz word across different fields in the Global North, often slipping into a tokenistic exercise. This paper argues that the decolonizing promise of moving beyond power asymmetries and acquiring the ability ‘to think from and with’ others will not be fulfilled…
Rethinking science diplomacy and global biosecurity
The changing organization and nature of biotechnology and bio-innovations have led to the global phenomenon of ‘science at large’. This has given rise to two key trends in global biosecurity governance: the growing role of science diplomacy in addressing biosecurity concerns and the rise of distributed agencies, particularly involving young practitioners from the global South, who are participating in a decentralization of western-dominated biose…
Scandalous ‘firsts’ from the Global South? The entanglement between epistemic injustice and Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)
This paper examines the critical role of epistemic injustice in Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), particularly through the lens of reproductive medicine scandals in the Global South. It unpacks the perception of the Global South as a hotbed for scandalous ‘firsts.’ That is, there seems to be a tendency for these regions to chase major scientific breakthroughs and global recognition, often at the cost of transgressing scientific and/or et…
Political science (22 works) · Law (19 works) · Sociology (15 works) · China (14 works) · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Social science (11 works) · Environmental ethics (9 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Economics (6 works)