Yunan Xu
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3965239 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Yunan Xu |
| NOMBRES | Yunan |
| APELLIDO | Xu |
| FIRMA | XU Y |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4520-1207 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 177 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Long-term exposure to ambient NO2 increase oral cancer prevalence in Southern China
Background While the correlation between cancer and air pollutants is well-established, research on the delayed effects of NO 2 on oral cancer remains limited. Methods We collected data on nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) along with diagnosed cases of oral cancer in Guangxi, China, and analyzed the correlation between exposure to NO 2 and the prevalence of oral cancer. Results The study included 1,841 participants diagnosed with oral malignancies, consis…
Death of agrarian societies by a thousand cuts
In terms of scale, the land rush has unleashed the interlinked categories: corporate large-scale, non-corporate pin prick and medium-scale land grabs. For the local population, the latter two types are ubiquitous parts of the land rush, yet these tend to be invisible to media and academic researchers. These are land ‘control grabbing’ done in a variety of ways: legal and illegal, openly or by stealth, with or without use of extra-economic coercio…
Failed land deals and the invisibilization of land grabbing in Mozambique
This paper argues that failed land deals are a key piece of the puzzle about global land grabbing. Co-constitutive of operational land deals, failed land deals profoundly impact social relations in affected communities and ecology, which are important to understand. Based on this, we argue that one impact of combined operational and non-operational or failed land deals is the ‘normalization’ of land grabbing through routinization and institutiona…
After the land rush
Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu CEX2019-000940-M
The spectacular global land rush
Resistance to extractivism
Resistance to extractivist land grabs is diverse in character and trajectory, at least those in Colombia, Ethiopia, Myanmar and China. We argue that this diversity is influenced by the social structures and institutions upon which land grabs unfold. These conditions also shape how land grabs take shape across time and space. We have identified two broad types of land grabs in terms of status: operational corporate and failed corporate land deals;…
Migrants, farmers and farmworkers and the politics of land and labour
In this article, framing and introducing the Special Issue on ‘Migrants, Farmers and Farmworkers’, we argue that the interaction between structural, institutional and political dynamics shapes the character and trajectory of social relations among migrants, farmers and farmworkers, which in turn influence or could influence the character and trajectory of broader struggles within and against capitalism, and the building of systemic alternatives. …
Unpacking the penetration of agrochemicals in China
Migrant labour flows and interconnected agrarian transformations in Southern China
While contemporary debates about agrarian transformations that include topics like the persistence of family farms, agrarian capital accumulation, and simple reproduction squeeze remain vibrant, discussions about the increasingly significant role of migrant wage labour, which further complicates these processes, remain limited. In this paper, we argue that the process of capitalist accumulation in some sections of the agrarian and food system sec…
Migrant (farm)workers and farmers in China and Myanmar
In this paper we argue that the most critical factor that shapes the character and trajectory of the sugarcane sector in China is neither land nor labour, individually, but rather the interactions of social dynamics around land and labour, and specifically migrant labour. We argue that not only that the political economy of land and labour together drive agrarian transformation in the sugarcane sector, but more precisely that it is the process of…
Pesticides and food sovereignty
The agrochemical complex of China
Reflecting on the Plantationocene
This paper reflects on the concept of the Plantationocene through an analysis of sugarcane plantations in Guangxi province, China. It argues that although these plantations are owned and operated by local villagers, they are de facto controlled by corporations, and subject to state intervention through a 'zoning scheme'. They are constructed and operated according to the same logic as other plantations all over the world, namely, the logic of ext…
Taken-left” dynamics? Rethink the livelihood changes of affected villagers in the era of the global land rush
When large-scale common land is taken from villagers by investors with little compensation, their labour unneeded, villagers’ livelihoods tend to be largely destroyed. This implies a tendency to focus on what has been taken from villagers during the land-based change, which has valid and has far-reaching social relevance. But as the rise of the industrial tree plantation (ITP) sector in Guangxi shows, some villagers are capable of having their li…
The value of so-called ‘failed’ large-scale land acquisitions
The land rush has remained, and is likely to remain, a significant global phenomenon despite waning international media attention. The scope of the phenomenon is likely to be wider than previously thought. Quantifying the extent of land deals in order to study the social phenomenon spotlights the relevance of two distinct but dialectically linked ‘scopes’, namely, the scope of land deals in terms of the precise geographic physical land area of Op…
Perceived Healthcare Access among Persons with and without HIV Who Use Illicit Stimulants
Background: Persons who use stimulant drugs have greater morbidity and mortality relative to non-users. HIV infection has the potential to contribute to even great disparity in health outcomes among persons who use stimulants. These health disparities likely result in part due to poorer access to healthcare. Our study used a cumulative risk model to examine the impact of multiple risk factors on healthcare access in a sample of persons with and w…
Rurally rooted cross-border migrant workers from Myanmar, Covid-19, and agrarian movements
This paper examines the situation of rurally rooted cross-border migrant workers from Myanmar during the Covid-19 pandemic. It looks at the circumstances of the migrants prior to the global health emergency, before exploring possibilities for a post-pandemic future for this stratum of the working people by raising critical questions addressed to agrarian movements. It does this by focusing on the nature and dynamics of the nexus of land and labou…
The interaction between detectable plasma viral load and increased body mass index on hypertension among persons living with HIV
Increased body mass index (BMI) and HIV are each associated with hypertension. This study tested interactions between BMI and detectable plasma viral load (pVL) on hypertension among 659 persons living with HIV (PLWH). All participants were categorized into four subgroups based on BMI (<25 and ≥25 kg/m2) and pVL (<200 and ≥200 copies/ml). Multiplicative interaction was assessed using logistic regression; addictive interaction was assessed using t…
Web-Based Cognitive Training to Improve Working Memory in Persons with Co-Occurring HIV Infection and Cocaine Use Disorder
HIV Prevalence and Associated Risks in a Respondent-Driven Sample of Illicit Stimulant Users in a Southern United States City
Rethinking the politics of land-use change
Politics of inclusion and exclusion in the Chinese industrial tree plantation sector
In the last two decades, the industrial tree plantation (ITP) sector has expanded rapidly in southern China, causing important changes in land-use and land control. It involves both domestic and transnational corporations, and has provoked widespread conflict and political contestations. The villagers who are affected by the expansion of ITPs have reacted in varied and complex ways: some of the villagers were incorporated in the ITP sector, while…
Risk Prediction Score for HIV Infection
Political economy of land grabbing inside China involving foreign investors
China tends to be a dominant figure in the literature on global land grabbing. It is either cast as a major land grabber in distant places such as Africa, or as a key player in crop booms elsewhere because it provides for massive market demand, such as for soya from South America. These are all important issues and are well covered in the literature. However, the crop booms inside China that involve transnational capital and investors – and have …
Negotiating rural land ownership in Southwest China
Land politics have been at the center of agrarian debates over the past decade, particularly in China. Chinese rural land politics, corresponding to issues around who controls the land under what c
Inquiring into the political economy of oil palm as a global flex crop
Oil palm production and consumption, and the trade of its multiple commodities, have expanded exponentially in recent decades. This paper argues that this expansion will continue due to, and along with, the rise of 'flexing' among its increasing multiple uses, especially for more industrial and energy purposes. Oil palm has been extensively analysed in the context of land grabs and agrarian change, land conversion and deforestation. However, its …
Land grabbing by villagers? Insights from intimate land grabbing in the rise of industrial tree plantation sector in Guangxi, China
Politics of inclusion and exclusion in the Chinese industrial tree plantation sector
In the last two decades, the industrial tree plantation (ITP) sector has expanded rapidly in southern China, causing important changes in land-use and land control. It involves both domestic and transnational corporations, and has provoked widespread conflict and political contestations. The villagers who are affected by the expansion of ITPs have reacted in varied and complex ways: some of the villagers were incorporated in the ITP sector, while…
Rurally rooted cross-border migrant workers from Myanmar, Covid-19, and agrarian movements
This paper examines the situation of rurally rooted cross-border migrant workers from Myanmar during the Covid-19 pandemic. It looks at the circumstances of the migrants prior to the global health emergency, before exploring possibilities for a post-pandemic future for this stratum of the working people by raising critical questions addressed to agrarian movements. It does this by focusing on the nature and dynamics of the nexus of land and labou…
The value of so-called ‘failed’ large-scale land acquisitions
The land rush has remained, and is likely to remain, a significant global phenomenon despite waning international media attention. The scope of the phenomenon is likely to be wider than previously thought. Quantifying the extent of land deals in order to study the social phenomenon spotlights the relevance of two distinct but dialectically linked ‘scopes’, namely, the scope of land deals in terms of the precise geographic physical land area of Op…
Land control and crop booms inside China
This paper aims to broaden the scope of analysis of the contemporary global land rush by examining crop booms not only outside, but inside China; and investment flows not only from China, but also within and into China. It does so by examining the eucalyptus and sugarcane sectors in southern China, which have witnessed investment booms during the past decade, with capital being infused by both domestic capital and foreign capital, including Finni…
The agrochemical complex of China
Reflecting on the Plantationocene
This paper reflects on the concept of the Plantationocene through an analysis of sugarcane plantations in Guangxi province, China. It argues that although these plantations are owned and operated by local villagers, they are de facto controlled by corporations, and subject to state intervention through a 'zoning scheme'. They are constructed and operated according to the same logic as other plantations all over the world, namely, the logic of ext…
Migrant labour flows and interconnected agrarian transformations in Southern China
While contemporary debates about agrarian transformations that include topics like the persistence of family farms, agrarian capital accumulation, and simple reproduction squeeze remain vibrant, discussions about the increasingly significant role of migrant wage labour, which further complicates these processes, remain limited. In this paper, we argue that the process of capitalist accumulation in some sections of the agrarian and food system sec…
Rethinking the politics of land-use change
China and Latin America
The rise of China has provoked changes in global geopolitics, deeply influencing the global economy and trade relations. Of particular importance for agrarian change is China’s increased demand for (agro)commodities which has led to new partnerships abroad in order to secure natural resource access. This paper analyses the increasing economic and political relations between China and Latin America and raises questions concerning new trajectories …
Migrant (farm)workers and farmers in China and Myanmar
In this paper we argue that the most critical factor that shapes the character and trajectory of the sugarcane sector in China is neither land nor labour, individually, but rather the interactions of social dynamics around land and labour, and specifically migrant labour. We argue that not only that the political economy of land and labour together drive agrarian transformation in the sugarcane sector, but more precisely that it is the process of…
Political economy of land grabbing inside China involving foreign investors
China tends to be a dominant figure in the literature on global land grabbing. It is either cast as a major land grabber in distant places such as Africa, or as a key player in crop booms elsewhere because it provides for massive market demand, such as for soya from South America. These are all important issues and are well covered in the literature. However, the crop booms inside China that involve transnational capital and investors – and have …
Correlates of Unprotected Anal Intercourse
Pesticides and food sovereignty
Taken-left” dynamics? Rethink the livelihood changes of affected villagers in the era of the global land rush
When large-scale common land is taken from villagers by investors with little compensation, their labour unneeded, villagers’ livelihoods tend to be largely destroyed. This implies a tendency to focus on what has been taken from villagers during the land-based change, which has valid and has far-reaching social relevance. But as the rise of the industrial tree plantation (ITP) sector in Guangxi shows, some villagers are capable of having their li…
Unpacking the penetration of agrochemicals in China
Negotiating rural land ownership in Southwest China
Land politics have been at the center of agrarian debates over the past decade, particularly in China. Chinese rural land politics, corresponding to issues around who controls the land under what c
Correlates of Unprotected Anal Intercourse
China and Latin America
The rise of China has provoked changes in global geopolitics, deeply influencing the global economy and trade relations. Of particular importance for agrarian change is China’s increased demand for (agro)commodities which has led to new partnerships abroad in order to secure natural resource access. This paper analyses the increasing economic and political relations between China and Latin America and raises questions concerning new trajectories …
Inquiring into the political economy of oil palm as a global flex crop
Oil palm production and consumption, and the trade of its multiple commodities, have expanded exponentially in recent decades. This paper argues that this expansion will continue due to, and along with, the rise of 'flexing' among its increasing multiple uses, especially for more industrial and energy purposes. Oil palm has been extensively analysed in the context of land grabs and agrarian change, land conversion and deforestation. However, its …
Land control and crop booms inside China
This paper aims to broaden the scope of analysis of the contemporary global land rush by examining crop booms not only outside, but inside China; and investment flows not only from China, but also within and into China. It does so by examining the eucalyptus and sugarcane sectors in southern China, which have witnessed investment booms during the past decade, with capital being infused by both domestic capital and foreign capital, including Finni…
Risk Prediction Score for HIV Infection
Political economy of land grabbing inside China involving foreign investors
China tends to be a dominant figure in the literature on global land grabbing. It is either cast as a major land grabber in distant places such as Africa, or as a key player in crop booms elsewhere because it provides for massive market demand, such as for soya from South America. These are all important issues and are well covered in the literature. However, the crop booms inside China that involve transnational capital and investors – and have …
Land grabbing by villagers? Insights from intimate land grabbing in the rise of industrial tree plantation sector in Guangxi, China
Rethinking the politics of land-use change
Politics of inclusion and exclusion in the Chinese industrial tree plantation sector
In the last two decades, the industrial tree plantation (ITP) sector has expanded rapidly in southern China, causing important changes in land-use and land control. It involves both domestic and transnational corporations, and has provoked widespread conflict and political contestations. The villagers who are affected by the expansion of ITPs have reacted in varied and complex ways: some of the villagers were incorporated in the ITP sector, while…
The interaction between detectable plasma viral load and increased body mass index on hypertension among persons living with HIV
Increased body mass index (BMI) and HIV are each associated with hypertension. This study tested interactions between BMI and detectable plasma viral load (pVL) on hypertension among 659 persons living with HIV (PLWH). All participants were categorized into four subgroups based on BMI (<25 and ≥25 kg/m2) and pVL (<200 and ≥200 copies/ml). Multiplicative interaction was assessed using logistic regression; addictive interaction was assessed using t…
Web-Based Cognitive Training to Improve Working Memory in Persons with Co-Occurring HIV Infection and Cocaine Use Disorder
HIV Prevalence and Associated Risks in a Respondent-Driven Sample of Illicit Stimulant Users in a Southern United States City
Perceived Healthcare Access among Persons with and without HIV Who Use Illicit Stimulants
Background: Persons who use stimulant drugs have greater morbidity and mortality relative to non-users. HIV infection has the potential to contribute to even great disparity in health outcomes among persons who use stimulants. These health disparities likely result in part due to poorer access to healthcare. Our study used a cumulative risk model to examine the impact of multiple risk factors on healthcare access in a sample of persons with and w…
Rurally rooted cross-border migrant workers from Myanmar, Covid-19, and agrarian movements
This paper examines the situation of rurally rooted cross-border migrant workers from Myanmar during the Covid-19 pandemic. It looks at the circumstances of the migrants prior to the global health emergency, before exploring possibilities for a post-pandemic future for this stratum of the working people by raising critical questions addressed to agrarian movements. It does this by focusing on the nature and dynamics of the nexus of land and labou…
The value of so-called ‘failed’ large-scale land acquisitions
The land rush has remained, and is likely to remain, a significant global phenomenon despite waning international media attention. The scope of the phenomenon is likely to be wider than previously thought. Quantifying the extent of land deals in order to study the social phenomenon spotlights the relevance of two distinct but dialectically linked ‘scopes’, namely, the scope of land deals in terms of the precise geographic physical land area of Op…
Taken-left” dynamics? Rethink the livelihood changes of affected villagers in the era of the global land rush
When large-scale common land is taken from villagers by investors with little compensation, their labour unneeded, villagers’ livelihoods tend to be largely destroyed. This implies a tendency to focus on what has been taken from villagers during the land-based change, which has valid and has far-reaching social relevance. But as the rise of the industrial tree plantation (ITP) sector in Guangxi shows, some villagers are capable of having their li…
Negotiating rural land ownership in Southwest China
Land politics have been at the center of agrarian debates over the past decade, particularly in China. Chinese rural land politics, corresponding to issues around who controls the land under what c
Reflecting on the Plantationocene
This paper reflects on the concept of the Plantationocene through an analysis of sugarcane plantations in Guangxi province, China. It argues that although these plantations are owned and operated by local villagers, they are de facto controlled by corporations, and subject to state intervention through a 'zoning scheme'. They are constructed and operated according to the same logic as other plantations all over the world, namely, the logic of ext…
Long-term exposure to ambient NO2 increase oral cancer prevalence in Southern China
Background While the correlation between cancer and air pollutants is well-established, research on the delayed effects of NO 2 on oral cancer remains limited. Methods We collected data on nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) along with diagnosed cases of oral cancer in Guangxi, China, and analyzed the correlation between exposure to NO 2 and the prevalence of oral cancer. Results The study included 1,841 participants diagnosed with oral malignancies, consis…
Death of agrarian societies by a thousand cuts
In terms of scale, the land rush has unleashed the interlinked categories: corporate large-scale, non-corporate pin prick and medium-scale land grabs. For the local population, the latter two types are ubiquitous parts of the land rush, yet these tend to be invisible to media and academic researchers. These are land ‘control grabbing’ done in a variety of ways: legal and illegal, openly or by stealth, with or without use of extra-economic coercio…
Failed land deals and the invisibilization of land grabbing in Mozambique
This paper argues that failed land deals are a key piece of the puzzle about global land grabbing. Co-constitutive of operational land deals, failed land deals profoundly impact social relations in affected communities and ecology, which are important to understand. Based on this, we argue that one impact of combined operational and non-operational or failed land deals is the ‘normalization’ of land grabbing through routinization and institutiona…
After the land rush
Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu CEX2019-000940-M
The spectacular global land rush
Resistance to extractivism
Resistance to extractivist land grabs is diverse in character and trajectory, at least those in Colombia, Ethiopia, Myanmar and China. We argue that this diversity is influenced by the social structures and institutions upon which land grabs unfold. These conditions also shape how land grabs take shape across time and space. We have identified two broad types of land grabs in terms of status: operational corporate and failed corporate land deals;…
Migrants, farmers and farmworkers and the politics of land and labour
In this article, framing and introducing the Special Issue on ‘Migrants, Farmers and Farmworkers’, we argue that the interaction between structural, institutional and political dynamics shapes the character and trajectory of social relations among migrants, farmers and farmworkers, which in turn influence or could influence the character and trajectory of broader struggles within and against capitalism, and the building of systemic alternatives. …
Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (20 obras) · Geography (20 obras) · Economics (18 obras) · Agriculture (16 obras) · China (13 obras) · Political science (13 obras) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (10 obras) · Economy (10 obras) · Business (9 obras) · Political economy (8 obras)