Anita Chan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3584544 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Anita Chan |
| PRENOMES | Anita |
| SOBRENOME | Chan |
| ASSINATURA | CHAN A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-3187-3560 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 101 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 366 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 100 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1974 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Use and Abuse of Chinese Workers Recruited for Belt and Road Projects Abroad
Provocations from the ‘STS as a Critical Pedagogy’ Workshop
This research article is a collaborative set of reflections and provocations stemming from the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded workshop on STS as a Critical Pedagogy, hosted online during the summer of 2021 by Shannon N. Conley and Emily York at James Madison University. The workshop occurred over four separate sessions, bringing together forty participants (including six undergraduate students who contributed as both facilitators and re…
Teaching and Learning with Situated Data
This paper reviews how situated data methods were used to critically engage students in sociotechnical case studies drawn from campus history and archives in courses developed under the Community Data Clinic and the Biological Computer Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In contrast to conventional data practices—that have long been critiqued by feminist, critical race and decolonial STS scholars for conditioning researchers to…
The Tidal Wave of New Unions during the Hong Kong Resistance Movement of 2019–20
During the Anti-extradition Movement in Hong Kong, a wave of new unions surfaced—18 newly registered unions in 2019 and 491 in the first half of 2020. This article examines and analyzes the factors behind this upsurge in new union activism and asks how protesters acquired trade union consciousness. Previously, in the throes of an earlier protest movement in 2014 led by young people who valued individualism, self-activism, spontaneity, and post-ma…
Le Manifeste-Non du féminisme des données
Le Manifeste-Non est une déclaration de refus et d’engagement. Il refuse les régimes de données nuisibles et s’engage pour de nouveaux avenirs en matière de données
From Unorganised Street Protests to Organising Unions
American Factory
Feminist design and the relational infrastructures of protest
opinion Share on Feminist design and the relational infrastructures of protest: perspectives, thoughts, and discussions on a global uprising Authors: Anita Say Chan University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignView Profile , Mayar El Bakry FHWN Academy of Art and Design Basel FHWN Academy of Art and Design BaselView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 27Issue 6November - December 2020 pp 30–35https…
Vietnam's and China's Diverging Industrial Relations Systems
This article explains why Vietnam and China, one-party states that allow only one official trade union, are traversing different paths in their trade unions’ institutional structures, the state’s and trade union’s attitudes towards strikes, their willingness to allow independent trade unions and willingness to engage with the international labour union movement. These will be examined in terms of the path dependency of their recent histories, in …
The Emergence of Labor Unions from Within Hong Kong's Protest Movement
Although Hong Kong historically has a weak trade union culture, in mid-2020 activists in the movement turned to demanding union representation and began forming dozens of small unions from the ground up. Within a few months of their existence they were able successfully to mount an important strike protesting against the government's policy to deal with Coronavirus pandemic. But since the passing of the National Security Law in July, the unions' …
Situating Data in a Trumpian Era
The Trump administration’s antienvironmental policies and its proclivity to dismiss evidence-based claims creates challenges for environmental politics in a warming world. This article offers the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) as a case study of one way to respond to this political moment. EDGI was started by a small group of Science and Technology Studies and environmental justice researchers and activists in the United Stat…
Migrant Workers' Fight for Rights in China
The workers themselves have begun demanding better labor conditions and claiming their legal entitlements. No longer as docile as they were in the past, they are emerging as an active force increasingly willing to confront employers
China's Workers under Assault
Big data interfaces and the problem of inclusion
A commentary on ‘Critical Questions for Big Data’ and the projection in the article of how ‘limited access to big data creates new digital divides’. Pressing questions are indeed proliferating around not only what the actual relationship is between data and real world user behavior but also around defining what the very practices, knowledge sets, legal and technological infrastructures, and social norms are that guide the work of big data as a fi…
Strike Wave in Vietnam, 2006-2011
Vietnam has witnessed more strikes than any other Asian country in the past decade, despite its vibrant economy. However, this regular industrial action has not deterred foreign investors from setting up manufacturing facilities in the country, as wages are about half those of China. Beneath the wildcat strike culture lies a deterioration in living standards to the extent that some Vietnamese workers have to conserve energy due to inadequate food…
Networking Peripheries
An exploration of the diverse experiments in digital futures as they advance far from the celebrated centers of technological innovation and entrepreneurship. In Networking Peripheries, Anita Chan shows how digital cultures flourish beyond Silicon Valley and other celebrated centers of technological innovation and entrepreneurship. The evolving digital cultures in the Global South vividly demonstrate that there are more ways than one to imagine w…
Deliberative Democracy at China's Grassroots
Dictatorial China contains vivid examples of grassroots deliberative democracy on issues vital to local participants. Three elements in our case studies are relevant to programs of deliberative, participatory decision making elsewhere in the world. First, the Chinese examples have all occurred within longstanding communities. Second, the members of these communities have faced concrete issues of a type they felt they had the knowledge to resolve.…
Labour in Global Value Chains
A critical challenge facing developing country producers is to meet international labour standards and codes of conduct in order to engage in global value chains. Evidence of gains for workers from compliance with such standards and codes remains limited and patchy. This article focuses on the global football industry, a sector dominated by leading global brands that manage dispersed global value chains. It assesses the working conditions for foo…
Strikes in China's Export Industries in Comparative Perspective
Several Chinese and Vietnamese instances are analyzed and compared to explain the nature, causes and underlying factors that lead to the strikes in the Chinese export industries. The labor laws, relation between the government and the official trade union and the minimum legal labor standards are shown to be the some of the main causes of such strikes
China's Automotive Modernization
Chen Village
The first two editions of Chen Village presented an enthralling account of a Chinese village in the throes of Maoist revolution followed by dramatic changes in village life and local politics during the Deng Xiaoping period. Now, more than a decade and a half later, the authors have returned to Chen Village, and in three new chapters they explore astonishing developments. The once-backwater village is today a center of China's export industry, wh…
American Chicken Feet, Chinese Tires, and the Struggle for Labor Rights
When Barack Obama took office, some of China's official "America Watchers" openly worried that the U.S. would start hammering China over the question of labor rights. This has been a longstanding issue between the two countries. For many years, American unions have been critical of China for not honoring two of the core International Labor Organization (ILO) labor rights conventionsâfreedom of association and the freedom to collectively bargain. …
A Chinese State Enterprise under the Reforms
Challenges and Possibilities for Democratic Grassroots Union Elections in China
In 2001 and 2002, Reebok facilitated democratic trade union elections at two of its supplier factories in China. After initial successes in one factory in bargaining with management to improve conditions, in the end the experiment failed. This article describes in detail the election process, the elections’ aftermath, and the power dynamics of the actors involved (Reebok, the supplier companies’ management, the workers, their newly elected trade …
Retiring the Network Spokesman
National legislation to mandate the use or consideration of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) in government institutions is increasingly emerging as a strategy for FLOSS advocates in Latin America and the broader developing world. Such movements for the political use and regulation of FLOSS mark a distinct turn in the objectives and work of FLOSS advocates, whose activities largely focused on the dissemination of FLOSS as a technologica…
We are not completely Westernised
State and Peasant in Contemporary China
Does China have an apartheid pass system
This article makes and defends the claim that China's contemporary household registration system can reasonably be described as a quasi‐apartheid pass system. The historical and ideological underpinnings of the two systems vary greatly, and the racial core of the South African system, lacking in China, led to its eventual demise. Nevertheless, the essence of both systems lies in the use of passes to control the influx of rural migrants into urban…
China's Workers under Assault
Critical perspectives on CSR and development
The May 2005 issue of International Affairs addressed the theme of critical perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the developing world. The aim of this article is to take the debate a step further. Five researchers and practitioners on corporate social responsibility and development in various regions in the developing world—Central America, Pakistan, China, Vietnam, Argentina and India—using knowledge gained by their empirical…
Chinese migrant women and families in britain
Inheritors of the Boom
Strikes in China's Export Industries in Comparative Perspective
Several Chinese and Vietnamese instances are analyzed and compared to explain the nature, causes and underlying factors that lead to the strikes in the Chinese export industries. The labor laws, relation between the government and the official trade union and the minimum legal labor standards are shown to be the some of the main causes of such strikes
Racing to the bottom
Linking trade concessions to compliance with internationally recognised labour standards is referred to as a 'social clause'. The social clause is usually depicted as causing division between the (rich) global North and the less-industrialised global South. This article shows, however, that there is diversity of opinion among the labour movements of the global South and that contemporary labour-intensive manufacturing pits countries of the South …
Strike Wave in Vietnam, 2006-2011
Vietnam has witnessed more strikes than any other Asian country in the past decade, despite its vibrant economy. However, this regular industrial action has not deterred foreign investors from setting up manufacturing facilities in the country, as wages are about half those of China. Beneath the wildcat strike culture lies a deterioration in living standards to the extent that some Vietnamese workers have to conserve energy due to inadequate food…
China's Troubled Workers
For financial managers monitoring trade from the tall towers of Wall Street, China's high-growth economy inspires awe and investments. To the men and women employed on the factory floor of the People's Republic, however, the economic scene looks grimly different. China's workers are in trouble, some in deep trouble. Since their inauguration in 1978, Deng Xiaoping's economic re forms have wrought vast changes in the nation's labor force. While div…
Labour in Global Value Chains
A critical challenge facing developing country producers is to meet international labour standards and codes of conduct in order to engage in global value chains. Evidence of gains for workers from compliance with such standards and codes remains limited and patchy. This article focuses on the global football industry, a sector dominated by leading global brands that manage dispersed global value chains. It assesses the working conditions for foo…
A Chinese State Enterprise under the Reforms
Coding Free Software, Coding Free States
In December 2001, a legislative proposal was introduced to the Peruvian Congress that would have mandated the use of free software on government computers. The introduction of the bill, dubbed the Law for the Use of Free Software in Government Agencies, or Proposition 1609,1 added Peru to a growing list of countries pursuing legal measures for the adoption of free software by government. Similar measures had begun in Brazil, Argentina, France, an…
Deliberative Democracy at China's Grassroots
Dictatorial China contains vivid examples of grassroots deliberative democracy on issues vital to local participants. Three elements in our case studies are relevant to programs of deliberative, participatory decision making elsewhere in the world. First, the Chinese examples have all occurred within longstanding communities. Second, the members of these communities have faced concrete issues of a type they felt they had the knowledge to resolve.…
Vietnamese and Chinese Labour Regimes
Grey and Black
A HIDDEN ECONOMY of very substantial size exists in the Chinese countryside, lying beyond the reaches of state plans and official statistics. At its outermost margins, this hidden economy includes blackmarketing and criminal activities. But most of the hidden economy has tended to occupy a considerable zone of semi-legality: though illegal on paper, it has been important to the rural economy's smooth functioning and, therefore, has been openly to…
The Internal Politics of an Urban Chinese Work Community
From North-South to South-South
Asian Power and Politics
Vietnam's and China's Diverging Industrial Relations Systems
This article explains why Vietnam and China, one-party states that allow only one official trade union, are traversing different paths in their trade unions’ institutional structures, the state’s and trade union’s attitudes towards strikes, their willingness to allow independent trade unions and willingness to engage with the international labour union movement. These will be examined in terms of the path dependency of their recent histories, in …
Situating Data in a Trumpian Era
The Trump administration’s antienvironmental policies and its proclivity to dismiss evidence-based claims creates challenges for environmental politics in a warming world. This article offers the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) as a case study of one way to respond to this political moment. EDGI was started by a small group of Science and Technology Studies and environmental justice researchers and activists in the United Stat…
The Emerging Patterns of Industrial Relations in China and the Rise of Two New Labor Movements
The Tidal Wave of New Unions during the Hong Kong Resistance Movement of 2019–20
During the Anti-extradition Movement in Hong Kong, a wave of new unions surfaced—18 newly registered unions in 2019 and 491 in the first half of 2020. This article examines and analyzes the factors behind this upsurge in new union activism and asks how protesters acquired trade union consciousness. Previously, in the throes of an earlier protest movement in 2014 led by young people who valued individualism, self-activism, spontaneity, and post-ma…
Chen Village
The first two editions of Chen Village presented an enthralling account of a Chinese village in the throes of Maoist revolution followed by dramatic changes in village life and local politics during the Deng Xiaoping period. Now, more than a decade and a half later, the authors have returned to Chen Village, and in three new chapters they explore astonishing developments. The once-backwater village is today a center of China's export industry, wh…
Rural Chinese women and the socialist revolution
Students and Class Warfare
Until recent years, scholars of modern China had generally assumed that in the Cultural Revolution violence of 1966–68 young people were almost arbitrarily joining one or the other of the opposing Red Guard groups. Only within the past few years have researchers begun to unveil the antagonism among students early in the Cultural Revolution over “class” issues and the resulting differences in the composition, tactics and goals of the Red Guard fac…
The Execution of Mayor Yin and Other Stories from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Images of China's Social Structure
Based on documentation and in-depth interviews with 14 emigrants from China; this study traces changing perceptions of China's social structure by different urban social groups. Each group adopted a perspective that best served its own interests. In the fifties and sixties these images did not necessarily coincide with—but nonetheless were within—the bounds of the image propagated by the Chinese authorities. During and since the turmoil of the Cu…
Grey and Black
A HIDDEN ECONOMY of very substantial size exists in the Chinese countryside, lying beyond the reaches of state plans and official statistics. At its outermost margins, this hidden economy includes blackmarketing and criminal activities. But most of the hidden economy has tended to occupy a considerable zone of semi-legality: though illegal on paper, it has been important to the rural economy's smooth functioning and, therefore, has been openly to…
Children of Mao
Chen Village
Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Chen Village. The Recent History of a Peasant Community in Mao's China
Popular Chinese Literature and Performing Arts in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979
Asian Power and Politics
On Socialist Democracy and the Chinese Legal System
Self-Deception as a Survival Technique
Modernization and Chinese Communism. Yang Junshi
The challenge to the social fabric
Cultural Revolution in China's Schools, May 1966-April 1969
Voices from the Protest Movement, Chongqing, Sichuan
Children of Mao
China's Long Winter
In the beginning there was surprise, for a short while elation, then shock, disgust, and finally grief. Intense emotions once again gripped Westerners as they watched the unfolding of events in China—above all, disbelief. The prevailing Western image, propagated by journalists, foreign diplomats, and the Chinese government alike, had been of a popular, dynamic, liberalized leadership that was successfully opening up China economically, politicall…
Red Earth
Part 1 Social and economic change: back to the beginning ancestral memories - before 1950 A Clean Snow Sweeps the Land - land reform in 1951 taking the co-operative road - 1953-7 how high the cost of fighting Paper Tigers: - 1958 great leap forward - triumph and tragedy - 1958-61 the people's commune - 1962-72 walking on two legs - 1972-82. Part 2 Ideological and political change: passing the gate - 1966 the cultural revolution - 1966-76 family f…
State and Peasant in Contemporary China
Revolution or Corporatism? Workers and Trade Unions in Post-Mao China
Laogai
Barefoot in the Boardroom
"L'agitation ouvrière derrière le "made in China
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