Bettina Gransow
Biographic Data
| ID | 382695 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bettina Gransow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bettina |
| FAMILY NAME | Gransow |
| SIGNATURE | GRANSOW B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8134-2584 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Connecting China, Latin America, and the Caribbean: Infrastructure and Everyday Life
Chinese Migrants in Metropolitan Cities Abroad: Reconsidering Agency, Interactions, and Belonging
At the interface of Chinese diaspora studies, migration studies, and urban studies, this introduction argues for a shift towards city-based migration studies. The city is understood here not as a self-contained social cosmos, but as a globally and socially embedded urban level that opens up a more flexible perspective on the unfolding of migration processes at the micro, meso, and macro levels. It begins with a brief overview of recent trends in …
Comparative Anomie Research: Hidden barriers - hidden potential for social development
Social Risk Management at Aiib – Chinese or International Characteristics
Chinese Infrastructure Investment in Latin America—an Assessment of Strategies, Actors and Risks
Labour Rights and Beyond—How Migrant Worker NGOs Negotiate Urban Spaces in the Pearl River Delta
The Pearl River Delta (PRD) with its strong focus on international export production has a higher concentration of NGOs that support migrant workers than any other part of China. To better understand mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion affecting migrants in the city and their organisations, this paper takes up Martina Löw's (2008) space‐theoretical concept and her critical reference to Anthony Giddens' structuration theory showing how space can…
Agency and the Making of Transient Urban Spaces: Examples of Migrants in the City in the Pearl River Delta, China, and Dhaka, Bangladesh
Internal migration within Asian countries and international migration to, within, and out of Asia have been on the rise throughout the past decades. As types and pathways of migration, migrants' sociocultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, and their transnational and translocal trajectories become increasingly diverse, a majority of them move to cities. Diverging power geometries and relations are constantly negotiated and (re)produced in the soc…
Konzeptionen chinesischer Modernisierung: Auf der Suche nach „Wohlstand und Stärke“
AuszugWestliche Modernisierungstheorien haben in der Regel die chinesischen Verhältnisse ausgeblendet oder sie — wie in Max Webers berühmter Rationalisierungsthese — zur Negativfolie für die Entstehung moderner Gesellschaften im Western erklärt. Die an China gerichtete Fragestellung lautete dann: „Warum ist es in der chinesischen Geschichte nicht zu einer dem Westen vergleichbaren Modernisierung gekommen?“ Die begriffliche Trennung von Tradition …
Social Transformation in China and the Development of Social Assessment
Since the late 1990s, China has been pursuing a policy of economic expansion with extensive investment in large-scale infrastructure projects. The social side effects of these projects—such as involuntary resettlement—are but the tip of the iceberg of so-called externalities of economic transformation. This paper introduces the background and methodology of social assessment in China and argues that the assessment of social risks in development p…
Nontranslatable: Indigenous Concepts in Social Science Research on China
Chinesische Modernisierung und kultureller Eigensinn
Im Unterschied zu anderen ehemals sozialistischen Ländern verbindet sich in der VR China die Abkehr von einem planwirtschaftlichen System mit einer dynamischen Wirtschaftsentwicklung, mit der Herausbildung eines neuen Zentrums der Modernisierung im Süden Chinas. Vor diesem Hintergrund stellt der Beitrag die Frage, welche Bedeutung kulturellen Eigenheiten für den Prozeß chinesischer Modernisierung zukommt und thematisiert diesen Zusammenhang anhan…
New Values and Anomie in the People's Republic of China Attitudes toward Modernization and Reform Policy
The incredible tempo of the ongoing process of social change in the People's Republic of China has led to profound shifting and reorganization in society. The social structure has become more complex and diversified, new social groups have emerged such as private business people and migrant workers. The gap between the wealthy and the poor is increasing and structures determining status and income are widely divergent
Chinese Sociology: Sinicisation and Globalisation
The way in which the transfer of Western sociology to China took shape raised not only the question 'What can sociology do for China?' but also the reverse question 'What can China do for sociology?'. The article poses the thesis that the striving of Chinese sociologists towards a sinicisation of sociology led to a learning process about Western sociology's cultural and civilisational ties. It describes the conditions of Chinese sociology on the …
Soziologie in China oder chinesische Soziologie: Einige Bemerkungen zum gegenwärtigen Entwicklungsstand der Soziologie in der VR China
Die seit 1979 in der VR China wieder zugelassene Soziologie hat sich selbst die Aufgabe gestellt, eine Soziologie „chinesischen Typs“ zu entwickeln. Gegenstand des Artikels ist die Frage, inwieweit das Ziel der Schaffung einer eigenständigen chinesischen Soziologie in den vergangenen fünf Jahren erreicht werden konnte. Es wird zunächst ein Überblick über die soziologischen Traditionen vor 1949 gegeben; in einem zweiten Teil werden die Institution…
Agency and the Making of Transient Urban Spaces: Examples of Migrants in the City in the Pearl River Delta, China, and Dhaka, Bangladesh
Internal migration within Asian countries and international migration to, within, and out of Asia have been on the rise throughout the past decades. As types and pathways of migration, migrants' sociocultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, and their transnational and translocal trajectories become increasingly diverse, a majority of them move to cities. Diverging power geometries and relations are constantly negotiated and (re)produced in the soc…
Labour Rights and Beyond—How Migrant Worker NGOs Negotiate Urban Spaces in the Pearl River Delta
The Pearl River Delta (PRD) with its strong focus on international export production has a higher concentration of NGOs that support migrant workers than any other part of China. To better understand mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion affecting migrants in the city and their organisations, this paper takes up Martina Löw's (2008) space‐theoretical concept and her critical reference to Anthony Giddens' structuration theory showing how space can…
Chinese Sociology: Sinicisation and Globalisation
The way in which the transfer of Western sociology to China took shape raised not only the question 'What can sociology do for China?' but also the reverse question 'What can China do for sociology?'. The article poses the thesis that the striving of Chinese sociologists towards a sinicisation of sociology led to a learning process about Western sociology's cultural and civilisational ties. It describes the conditions of Chinese sociology on the …
Chinese Migrants in Metropolitan Cities Abroad: Reconsidering Agency, Interactions, and Belonging
At the interface of Chinese diaspora studies, migration studies, and urban studies, this introduction argues for a shift towards city-based migration studies. The city is understood here not as a self-contained social cosmos, but as a globally and socially embedded urban level that opens up a more flexible perspective on the unfolding of migration processes at the micro, meso, and macro levels. It begins with a brief overview of recent trends in …
Nontranslatable: Indigenous Concepts in Social Science Research on China
Chinese Infrastructure Investment in Latin America—an Assessment of Strategies, Actors and Risks
Social Risk Management at Aiib – Chinese or International Characteristics
Social Transformation in China and the Development of Social Assessment
Since the late 1990s, China has been pursuing a policy of economic expansion with extensive investment in large-scale infrastructure projects. The social side effects of these projects—such as involuntary resettlement—are but the tip of the iceberg of so-called externalities of economic transformation. This paper introduces the background and methodology of social assessment in China and argues that the assessment of social risks in development p…
Chinesische Modernisierung und kultureller Eigensinn
Im Unterschied zu anderen ehemals sozialistischen Ländern verbindet sich in der VR China die Abkehr von einem planwirtschaftlichen System mit einer dynamischen Wirtschaftsentwicklung, mit der Herausbildung eines neuen Zentrums der Modernisierung im Süden Chinas. Vor diesem Hintergrund stellt der Beitrag die Frage, welche Bedeutung kulturellen Eigenheiten für den Prozeß chinesischer Modernisierung zukommt und thematisiert diesen Zusammenhang anhan…
Soziologie in China oder chinesische Soziologie: Einige Bemerkungen zum gegenwärtigen Entwicklungsstand der Soziologie in der VR China
Die seit 1979 in der VR China wieder zugelassene Soziologie hat sich selbst die Aufgabe gestellt, eine Soziologie „chinesischen Typs“ zu entwickeln. Gegenstand des Artikels ist die Frage, inwieweit das Ziel der Schaffung einer eigenständigen chinesischen Soziologie in den vergangenen fünf Jahren erreicht werden konnte. Es wird zunächst ein Überblick über die soziologischen Traditionen vor 1949 gegeben; in einem zweiten Teil werden die Institution…
Soziologie in China oder chinesische Soziologie: Einige Bemerkungen zum gegenwärtigen Entwicklungsstand der Soziologie in der VR China
Die seit 1979 in der VR China wieder zugelassene Soziologie hat sich selbst die Aufgabe gestellt, eine Soziologie „chinesischen Typs“ zu entwickeln. Gegenstand des Artikels ist die Frage, inwieweit das Ziel der Schaffung einer eigenständigen chinesischen Soziologie in den vergangenen fünf Jahren erreicht werden konnte. Es wird zunächst ein Überblick über die soziologischen Traditionen vor 1949 gegeben; in einem zweiten Teil werden die Institution…
Chinese Sociology: Sinicisation and Globalisation
The way in which the transfer of Western sociology to China took shape raised not only the question 'What can sociology do for China?' but also the reverse question 'What can China do for sociology?'. The article poses the thesis that the striving of Chinese sociologists towards a sinicisation of sociology led to a learning process about Western sociology's cultural and civilisational ties. It describes the conditions of Chinese sociology on the …
Chinesische Modernisierung und kultureller Eigensinn
Im Unterschied zu anderen ehemals sozialistischen Ländern verbindet sich in der VR China die Abkehr von einem planwirtschaftlichen System mit einer dynamischen Wirtschaftsentwicklung, mit der Herausbildung eines neuen Zentrums der Modernisierung im Süden Chinas. Vor diesem Hintergrund stellt der Beitrag die Frage, welche Bedeutung kulturellen Eigenheiten für den Prozeß chinesischer Modernisierung zukommt und thematisiert diesen Zusammenhang anhan…
New Values and Anomie in the People's Republic of China Attitudes toward Modernization and Reform Policy
The incredible tempo of the ongoing process of social change in the People's Republic of China has led to profound shifting and reorganization in society. The social structure has become more complex and diversified, new social groups have emerged such as private business people and migrant workers. The gap between the wealthy and the poor is increasing and structures determining status and income are widely divergent
Nontranslatable: Indigenous Concepts in Social Science Research on China
Social Transformation in China and the Development of Social Assessment
Since the late 1990s, China has been pursuing a policy of economic expansion with extensive investment in large-scale infrastructure projects. The social side effects of these projects—such as involuntary resettlement—are but the tip of the iceberg of so-called externalities of economic transformation. This paper introduces the background and methodology of social assessment in China and argues that the assessment of social risks in development p…
Konzeptionen chinesischer Modernisierung: Auf der Suche nach „Wohlstand und Stärke“
AuszugWestliche Modernisierungstheorien haben in der Regel die chinesischen Verhältnisse ausgeblendet oder sie — wie in Max Webers berühmter Rationalisierungsthese — zur Negativfolie für die Entstehung moderner Gesellschaften im Western erklärt. Die an China gerichtete Fragestellung lautete dann: „Warum ist es in der chinesischen Geschichte nicht zu einer dem Westen vergleichbaren Modernisierung gekommen?“ Die begriffliche Trennung von Tradition …
Labour Rights and Beyond—How Migrant Worker NGOs Negotiate Urban Spaces in the Pearl River Delta
The Pearl River Delta (PRD) with its strong focus on international export production has a higher concentration of NGOs that support migrant workers than any other part of China. To better understand mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion affecting migrants in the city and their organisations, this paper takes up Martina Löw's (2008) space‐theoretical concept and her critical reference to Anthony Giddens' structuration theory showing how space can…
Agency and the Making of Transient Urban Spaces: Examples of Migrants in the City in the Pearl River Delta, China, and Dhaka, Bangladesh
Internal migration within Asian countries and international migration to, within, and out of Asia have been on the rise throughout the past decades. As types and pathways of migration, migrants' sociocultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, and their transnational and translocal trajectories become increasingly diverse, a majority of them move to cities. Diverging power geometries and relations are constantly negotiated and (re)produced in the soc…
Chinese Infrastructure Investment in Latin America—an Assessment of Strategies, Actors and Risks
Comparative Anomie Research: Hidden barriers - hidden potential for social development
Social Risk Management at Aiib – Chinese or International Characteristics
Chinese Migrants in Metropolitan Cities Abroad: Reconsidering Agency, Interactions, and Belonging
At the interface of Chinese diaspora studies, migration studies, and urban studies, this introduction argues for a shift towards city-based migration studies. The city is understood here not as a self-contained social cosmos, but as a globally and socially embedded urban level that opens up a more flexible perspective on the unfolding of migration processes at the micro, meso, and macro levels. It begins with a brief overview of recent trends in …
Connecting China, Latin America, and the Caribbean: Infrastructure and Everyday Life
Political science (13 works) · China (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (4 works)