Shize Zhang
Biographic Data
| ID | 5917822 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shize Zhang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shize |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhang |
| SIGNATURE | ZHANG S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3428-5994 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Becoming an Insider
This paper examines how an unplanned transformation from classical ethnography to institutional ethnography during my long-term research in a rapidly developing village in China reshaped my positionality, ethics, and methods. Initially positioned as a pure researcher, I became gradually embedded in a newly established institution tasked with local development and governance. I later came to understand this shift through institutional ethnography …
Urban-rural hierarchy, rural agency, and planetary thinking
This paper examines how and why the urban-rural hierarchy persists in spatial thought and governance and how planetary thinking enables a reconceptualisation of rural agency. Based on 11 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Houhai Village, southern China, it traces how rural actors shape political, cultural, and economic processes beyond the local scale. As Houhai transformed into China’s leading surf tourism destination, it disrupted governance h…
The willingness–capability model
This paper rethinks local participation in tourism by introducing the Willingness–Capability model, which conceptualises participation as a dynamic interplay between individuals' desire to engage and their substantive ability to do so. Based on eleven months of ethnographic fieldwork in Houhai Village, China, the study maps diverse participation trajectories across four quadrants of the Willingness–Capability framework. It reveals how participati…
The everyday political economy of local governance in China
This paper develops a spatialised everyday political economy (EPE) by integrating relational and territorial thinking. Drawing on an 11-month ethnography in Houhai village, a rapidly transformed surfing hub in China, it shows how governance emerges from everyday practices that articulate relational infrastructures with territorial instruments. The analysis identifies three steps: enactment, translation and recalibration, through which spatial tra…
Creating marginality, building resilience
This study explores the dual reality of Houhai Village, China, as it transforms from a traditional rural community into a burgeoning tourist destination. Driven primarily by external forces with capitalist characteristics, this shift has marginalised locals from and within tourism, altering the dynamics of everyday life. In the process, the parameters of resilience have been continually reshaped as they adapt to the power dynamics imposed by tour…
Exploring the global geography of cybercrime and its driving forces
Cybercrime is wreaking havoc on the global economy, national security, social stability, and individual interests. The current efforts to mitigate cybercrime threats are primarily focused on technical measures. This study considers cybercrime as a social phenomenon and constructs a theoretical framework that integrates the social, economic, political, technological, and cybersecurity factors that influence cybercrime. The FireHOL IP blocklist, a …
Remaking the rural as a tourism place
With continuous improvement in contemporary material living standards and the advancement of urbanization, rural areas throughout the world have increasingly become tourist destinations. However, due to differences between the needs of tourists and villagers, rural place remaking for tourism results in rural areas that are more inclined to meet the needs of the tourism industry than those of residents. Existing research shows that smallholders ar…
The Spatiotemporal Pattern and Driving Factors of Cyber Fraud Crime in China
As a typical cybercrime, cyber fraud poses severe threats to civilians’ property safety and social stability. Traditional criminological theories such as routine activity theory focus mainly on the effects of individual characteristics on cybercrime victimization and ignore the impacts of macro-level environmental factors. This study aims at exploring the spatiotemporal pattern of cyber fraud crime in China and investigating the relationships bet…
Creating marginality, building resilience
This study explores the dual reality of Houhai Village, China, as it transforms from a traditional rural community into a burgeoning tourist destination. Driven primarily by external forces with capitalist characteristics, this shift has marginalised locals from and within tourism, altering the dynamics of everyday life. In the process, the parameters of resilience have been continually reshaped as they adapt to the power dynamics imposed by tour…
The Spatiotemporal Pattern and Driving Factors of Cyber Fraud Crime in China
As a typical cybercrime, cyber fraud poses severe threats to civilians’ property safety and social stability. Traditional criminological theories such as routine activity theory focus mainly on the effects of individual characteristics on cybercrime victimization and ignore the impacts of macro-level environmental factors. This study aims at exploring the spatiotemporal pattern of cyber fraud crime in China and investigating the relationships bet…
Exploring the global geography of cybercrime and its driving forces
Cybercrime is wreaking havoc on the global economy, national security, social stability, and individual interests. The current efforts to mitigate cybercrime threats are primarily focused on technical measures. This study considers cybercrime as a social phenomenon and constructs a theoretical framework that integrates the social, economic, political, technological, and cybersecurity factors that influence cybercrime. The FireHOL IP blocklist, a …
Remaking the rural as a tourism place
With continuous improvement in contemporary material living standards and the advancement of urbanization, rural areas throughout the world have increasingly become tourist destinations. However, due to differences between the needs of tourists and villagers, rural place remaking for tourism results in rural areas that are more inclined to meet the needs of the tourism industry than those of residents. Existing research shows that smallholders ar…
Creating marginality, building resilience
This study explores the dual reality of Houhai Village, China, as it transforms from a traditional rural community into a burgeoning tourist destination. Driven primarily by external forces with capitalist characteristics, this shift has marginalised locals from and within tourism, altering the dynamics of everyday life. In the process, the parameters of resilience have been continually reshaped as they adapt to the power dynamics imposed by tour…
Becoming an Insider
This paper examines how an unplanned transformation from classical ethnography to institutional ethnography during my long-term research in a rapidly developing village in China reshaped my positionality, ethics, and methods. Initially positioned as a pure researcher, I became gradually embedded in a newly established institution tasked with local development and governance. I later came to understand this shift through institutional ethnography …
Urban-rural hierarchy, rural agency, and planetary thinking
This paper examines how and why the urban-rural hierarchy persists in spatial thought and governance and how planetary thinking enables a reconceptualisation of rural agency. Based on 11 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Houhai Village, southern China, it traces how rural actors shape political, cultural, and economic processes beyond the local scale. As Houhai transformed into China’s leading surf tourism destination, it disrupted governance h…
The willingness–capability model
This paper rethinks local participation in tourism by introducing the Willingness–Capability model, which conceptualises participation as a dynamic interplay between individuals' desire to engage and their substantive ability to do so. Based on eleven months of ethnographic fieldwork in Houhai Village, China, the study maps diverse participation trajectories across four quadrants of the Willingness–Capability framework. It reveals how participati…
The everyday political economy of local governance in China
This paper develops a spatialised everyday political economy (EPE) by integrating relational and territorial thinking. Drawing on an 11-month ethnography in Houhai village, a rapidly transformed surfing hub in China, it shows how governance emerges from everyday practices that articulate relational infrastructures with territorial instruments. The analysis identifies three steps: enactment, translation and recalibration, through which spatial tra…
China (4 works) · Tourism (4 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (2 works) · Cognitive reframing (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)