Ivan Franceschini
Biographic Data
| ID | 259471 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ivan Franceschini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ivan |
| FAMILY NAME | Franceschini |
| SIGNATURE | FRANCESCHINI I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1423-4441 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Gendered Life Cycle of Forced Criminality: Female Victims in Southeast Asia’s Online Scam Industry
Dissident at the Doorstep: A Conversation with Yangyang Cheng
A new type of victim? Profiling survivors of modern slavery in the online scam industry in Southeast Asia
Xinjiang Year Zero
Since 2017, the Chinese authorities have detained hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities in ‘reeducation camps’ in China’s northwestern Xinjiang autonomous region. While the official reason for this mass detention was to prevent terrorism, the campaign has since become a wholesale attempt to remould the ways of life of these peoples—an experiment
Global China as Method
Is China part of the world? Based on much of the political, media, and popular discourse in the West the answer is seemingly no. Even after four decades of integration into the global socioeconomic system, discussions of China continue to be underpinned by a core assumption: that the country represents a fundamentally different 'other' that somehow exists outside the 'real' world. Either implicitly or explicitly, China is generally depicted as an…
Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman: A Conversation with Brian DeMare
The Urbanisation of People: A Conversation with Eli Friedman
The Effable Worker
Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle: A Conversation with Robert Ovetz and Jenny Chan
Orwell and Empire: A Conversation with Douglas Kerr
Contemporary readers are most familiar with George Orwell's later works of political satire, such as Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). Less known is the fact that the writer, who is often considered the epitome of ‘Englishness’, was born in India and as a young man served for five years in the Imperial Police in Burma—an experience that reverberated throughout his oeuvre. In Orwell and Empire (Oxford University Press, 2022), Dou…
Workers and Change in China: A Conversation with Manfred Elfstrom
The Work of Culture: Of Barons, Dark Academia, and the Corruption of Language in the Neoliberal University
Building the New Macau: A Portrait of Chinese Construction Workers in Sihanoukville
Due to a massive and sudden influx of capital from China, much of which was invested in shadowy gambling operations, in just a few years Sihanoukville went from a dreamy, lowbudget tourist destination on the Cambodian coast to Southeast Asia's 'new Macau'. When, in the summer of 2019, the Cambodian authorities banned online gambling, the local economy came tumbling down. As construction sites all over the city halted operation, workers, both Chin…
Primo Levi, Camp Power, and Terror Capitalism: A Conversation with Darren Byler
Zombies of Capital: On Reading Ling Ma’s Severance
Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks. The time during which the labourer works, is
What about Whataboutism: Viral Loads and Hyperactive Immune Responses in the China Debate
Hunting Sorcerers in Cambodia
Red Silk: A Conversation with Robert Cliver
Experiences of the Soul: On William Somerset Maugham’s Far Eastern Writings China
Negotiating Inseparability in China: A Conversation with Timothy Grose
The Power of Place: A Conversation with Mark Frazier
Hong Kong in Revolt: A Conversation with Au Loong Yu
For the past year and a half, Hong Kong has been in turmoil, with a new generation of young and politically active citizens mobilising to protest Beijing's tightening grip over the city.In Hong Kong in Revolt: The Protest Movement and the Future of China (Pluto Books 2020), prominent Hong Kong leftist intellectual Au Loong-Yu retraces the development of the protest movement in his place of birth over the past two decades, setting it within the co…
Disenfranchised: A Conversation with Joel Andreas
Scholars and Spies: Experiences from the Soviet Union, Communist Romania, and China
The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: A Conversation with Michael G. Vann
State Repression of Chinese Labor NGOs: A Chilling Effect
Since their emergence in China in the mid-1990s, labor NGOs have been exposed to a wide array of threats by the Party-state. But under Xi Jinping the repressive strategies of the Chinese authorities have become more sophisticated, with the adoption of new laws and regulations aimed at enforcing state control and efforts to cut the NGOs’ access to foreign funding. How do Chinese labor NGO activists cope with these threats? Do the attacks silence t…
As far apart as earth and sky: A survey of Chinese and Cambodian construction workers in Sihanoukville
Although much has been written about China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), so far little attention has been paid to how Chinese investment is affecting workers in BRI-targeted countries. To explore this dimension of global China, this paper examines the labor rights situation at Chinese-owned construction sites in Sihanoukville, a city on the Cambodian coast that in recent years has been described as embodying the worst excesses of Chinese fore…
At the Roots of Labour Activism: Chinese and Cambodian Garment Workers in Comparative Perspective
In China extensive, co-ordinated strikes such as those that have taken place in Cambodia in recent years remain rare, with most protests initiated by Chinese workers contained inside single factories or industrial zones. Also, while Cambodian workers often mobilise for their interests and broader policy issues, such as the determination of the minimum wage, Chinese workers largely limit themselves to protests against violations of their legal rig…
The 'Jasmine Revolution' in China: The Limits of the Cyber-Utopia
The study of the Chinese Internet plays a fundamental part in an on-going global discussion on the role of the new media as tools of political change. It is undeniable that the development of the Internet in China is terrific both in terms of infrastructure investment and citizen involvement. Yet, even though this process has already been studied extensively and with varying perspective, several issues regarding its impact on Chinese society rema…
Il risveglio dei diritti? Un dibattito sul lavoro in Cina
In the past two decades, much has been written about China's status as the new «factory of the world». In particular, much emphasis has been placed on how global capitalism, with the connivance of the Chinese authorities, was able to exploit China's workers, unleashing a global "race to the bottom" in labour standards. In such a context, the Chinese workers have usually been described as passive victims "under assault" by the forces of globalizat…
La grande trasformazione del lavoro in Cina
The 'Jasmine Revolution' in China: The Limits of the Cyber-Utopia
The study of the Chinese Internet plays a fundamental part in an on-going global discussion on the role of the new media as tools of political change. It is undeniable that the development of the Internet in China is terrific both in terms of infrastructure investment and citizen involvement. Yet, even though this process has already been studied extensively and with varying perspective, several issues regarding its impact on Chinese society rema…
Disturbances in Heaven
Labour and civil society are two fundamental components of international discussions concerning China today. Whether it is the arrest of labour activists or rights lawyers, the adoption of new industrial policies, or the passing of draconian rules on non-governmental organisations, the events occurring in these areas in China often make global headlines. At the same time, in spite of the grave challenges for workers and activists, the Chinese lab…
Made in China Yearbook 2017: Gilded Age
According to the Chinese zodiac, 2017 was the year of the ?fire rooster?, an animal often associated with the mythical fenghuang, a magnificently beautiful bird whose appearance is believed to mark the beginning of a new era of peaceful flourishing. Considering the auspicious symbolism surrounding the fenghuang, it is fitting that on 18 October 2017, President Xi Jinping took to the stage of the Nineteenth Party Congress to proclaim the beginning…
State Repression of Chinese Labor NGOs: A Chilling Effect
Since their emergence in China in the mid-1990s, labor NGOs have been exposed to a wide array of threats by the Party-state. But under Xi Jinping the repressive strategies of the Chinese authorities have become more sophisticated, with the adoption of new laws and regulations aimed at enforcing state control and efforts to cut the NGOs’ access to foreign funding. How do Chinese labor NGO activists cope with these threats? Do the attacks silence t…
Calling the Tunes in Cambodia
that the late gynaecologist-turnedactor Haing Ngor, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime, describes that day in April 1975 when the victorious revolutionaries forced the whole population of Phnom Penh out of the city.The Chinese tunes he heard were only the latest testament of a close relationship between China and Cambodia that spanned several centuries.
Afterlives of Chinese Communism: Political Concepts from Mao to Xi
Afterlives of Chinese Communism comprises essays from over fifty world- renowned scholars in the China field, from various disciplines and continents. It provides an indispensable guide for understanding how the Mao era continues to shape Chinese politics today. Each chapter discusses a concept or practice from the Mao period, what it attempted to do, and what has become of it since. The authors respond to the legacy of Maoism from numerous persp…
Dog Days
According to the Chinese zodiac, 2018 was the year of the 'earthly dog'. In the middle of the long, hot, and feverish dog days of the summer of 2018, some workers at Shenzhen Jasic Technology took their chances and attempted to form an independent union. While this action was met by the harshest repression, it also led to extraordinary demonstrations of solidarity from small
In the Name of the Working Class: Narratives of Labour Activism in Contemporary ChinaHolland Prize Winner
Since their appearance in the mid-1990s, Chinese labour NGOs have mostly focused on disseminating labour law and guiding labour disputes through official channels. In so doing, they have assisted the Chinese Communist Party in achieving its paramount goal of maintaining social stability. In line with this approach, activists in these organizations have traditionally framed their work in terms of "public interest" or "legality," both of which reso…
Zombies of Capital: On Reading Ling Ma’s Severance
Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks. The time during which the labourer works, is
What about Whataboutism: Viral Loads and Hyperactive Immune Responses in the China Debate
Hunting Sorcerers in Cambodia
Red Silk: A Conversation with Robert Cliver
Experiences of the Soul: On William Somerset Maugham’s Far Eastern Writings China
Negotiating Inseparability in China: A Conversation with Timothy Grose
The Power of Place: A Conversation with Mark Frazier
Hong Kong in Revolt: A Conversation with Au Loong Yu
For the past year and a half, Hong Kong has been in turmoil, with a new generation of young and politically active citizens mobilising to protest Beijing's tightening grip over the city.In Hong Kong in Revolt: The Protest Movement and the Future of China (Pluto Books 2020), prominent Hong Kong leftist intellectual Au Loong-Yu retraces the development of the protest movement in his place of birth over the past two decades, setting it within the co…
Disenfranchised: A Conversation with Joel Andreas
Scholars and Spies: Experiences from the Soviet Union, Communist Romania, and China
The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: A Conversation with Michael G. Vann
As far apart as earth and sky: A survey of Chinese and Cambodian construction workers in Sihanoukville
Although much has been written about China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), so far little attention has been paid to how Chinese investment is affecting workers in BRI-targeted countries. To explore this dimension of global China, this paper examines the labor rights situation at Chinese-owned construction sites in Sihanoukville, a city on the Cambodian coast that in recent years has been described as embodying the worst excesses of Chinese fore…
At the Roots of Labour Activism: Chinese and Cambodian Garment Workers in Comparative Perspective
In China extensive, co-ordinated strikes such as those that have taken place in Cambodia in recent years remain rare, with most protests initiated by Chinese workers contained inside single factories or industrial zones. Also, while Cambodian workers often mobilise for their interests and broader policy issues, such as the determination of the minimum wage, Chinese workers largely limit themselves to protests against violations of their legal rig…
Un atto d'amore: Manifesto Open Access per la libertà, l'integrità e la creatività nelle scienze umane e nelle scienze sociali interpretative
Un atto d'amore: Manifesto Open Access per la libertà, l'integrità e la creatività nelle scienze umane e nelle scienze sociali interpretative, è il risultato di un workshop finanziato da LSE Research Infrastructure and Investment Funds dal titolo Academic Freedom, Academic Integrity and Open Access in the Social Sciences, organizzato da Andrea E. Pia e tenuto presso la London School of Economics il 9 settembre 2019
Labour of Love: An Open Access Manifesto for Freedom, Integrity, and Creativity in the Humanities and Interpretive Social Sciences
Labour of Love: An Open Access Manifesto for Freedom, Integrity, and Creativity in the Humanities and Interpretive Social Sciences, is the result of an LSE Research Infrastructure and Investment-funded workshop entitled Academic Freedom, Academic Integrity and Open Access in the Social Sciences, organised by Andrea E. Pia and held at the London School of Economics on September 9, 2019
Sociology (23 works) · Political science (19 works) · China (14 works) · Communication (13 works) · Conversation (13 works) · Law (13 works) · History (12 works) · Art (10 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works)