Sophia Woodman
Biographic Data
| ID | 745470 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sophia Woodman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sophia |
| FAMILY NAME | Woodman |
| SIGNATURE | WOODMAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7099-2717 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Between a rock and a hard place: Academic freedom in globalising Chinese universities
This article examines academic freedom in China amid the tensions within a marketised global political economy of knowledge production. Joining the global competition for hegemony in the ‘knowledge economy’, the Chinese authorities signalled an acceptance of the ‘rules of the game’, even though these have the potential to undermine domestic political control. Global (as opposed to national) rankings of universities were actually initiated in Chin…
Model code of conduct: Protection of academic freedom and the academic community in the context of the internationalisation of the UK HE sector
Differentiating risks to academic freedom in the globalised university in China
Academic freedom in China is unquestionably under threat from various quarters. Yet the assumption that only the logics of authoritarian Communist Party power shape the terrain in which scholars operate provides us with a limited perspective on these threats. The Chinese academy has become deeply entangled with transnational forces, and is increasingly driven by similar business logics to those in play in universities around the world. We argue t…
The dynamics of localized citizenship at the grassroots in China
Grassroots organizations in urban and rural China offer intriguing perspectives for citizenship studies, this article argues. Paradoxically perhaps, China is one of the few places where the right to self-government is recognized in law, through the medium of these local semi-state committees. China’s response to Covid reaffirmed their importance, revealing how they (variably) organize urban and rural residents. In ordinary times, such committees …
Introducing radical democratic citizenship: From practice to theory
For our special issue, ‘Radical Democratic Citizenship: From Practice to Theory’, we examine different forms of radical theorising and politics at the grassroots. Radical democratic citizenship entails forms of struggle against gross social, economic and political miseries and injustices. This special issue explores the implications of a renewed wave of revolutionary grassroots action. ‘Radical’ indicates firstly the potential for sustained funda…
Exploring ‘festive commoning’ in radical gatherings in Scotland
Drawing on immersive ethnographic fieldwork at three events in Scotland, all grounded in ecological sensibilities and focusing respectively on alternative medicine, music and reviving seasonal celebrations, this article illuminates aspects of what we call ‘festive commoning’. We ask: how, and to what extent, were commons ‘against and beyond’ capital produced in these gatherings? We re-read a history of resistance to festive autonomy in this light…
Legitimating exclusion and inclusion: Culture’, education and entitlement to local urban citizenship in Tianjin and Lanzhou
The paradigmatic ‘migrant’ in China is a worker of rural origin, but more than 30% of the one-fifth of the population living and working away from their place of hukou registration are inter-urban migrants, a group mostly neglected by scholars. Based on ethnographic observation and interviews from two Chinese cities – one on the coast, one in the impoverished interior – this article examines how a range of types of migrants deal with citizenship …
Introduction: Practicing citizenship in contemporary China
Citizenship in China – and elsewhere in the global South – has been perceived as either a distorted echo of the ‘real’ democratic version in Europe and North America, or an orientalized ‘other’ that defines what citizenship is not. In contrast, adopting a ‘connected histories’ perspective makes Chinese citizenship a constitutive part of a modernity that is still unfolding. Since the nineteenth century, concerns about citizenship have been central…
Segmented Publics and the Regulation of Critical Speech in China
In contemporary China strict censorship coexists with significant freedom of expression and restrictions are enforced inconsistently. Yet certain principles underlie determinations of what is acceptable public speech, depending on the institutional location of the utterance, the identity of the speaker and the time of the event. What is allowed depends on the specific circumstances, but it results from patterns in the institutional practices of C…
Practising Self-Government: A Comparative Study of Autonomous Regions
Unused powers: Contestation over autonomy legislation in the PRC
The most important power granted to autonomous areas in China’s system of Nationalities Regional Autonomy should allow them to modify higher-level laws and policies through autonomy legislation. This is one of the two principal methods for the exercise of autonomy, with the other being the holding of key government posts by minority members. Yet efforts by the five autonomous regions to exercise their powers to enact autonomy legislation have bee…
Ethics in Action: The Ethical Challenges of International Human Rights Nongovernmental Organizations
This book is the product of a multi-year dialogue between leading human rights theorists and high-level representatives of international human rights NGOs (INGOs). It is divided into three parts that reflect the major ethical challenges discussed at the workshops: the ethical challenges associated with interaction between relatively rich and powerful northern-based human rights INGOs and recipients of their aid in the South; whether and how to co…
Aide bilatérale et droits de l'homme
Human Rights: Chinese and Canadian Perspectives . Errol P. Mendes , Anne-Marie Traeholt
Quelle liberté d'association en Chine ? [La promotion des organisations à but non lucratif est concomitante d'une restriction de la liberté d'association]: La promotion des organisations à but non luc…
Introduction: Practicing citizenship in contemporary China
Citizenship in China – and elsewhere in the global South – has been perceived as either a distorted echo of the ‘real’ democratic version in Europe and North America, or an orientalized ‘other’ that defines what citizenship is not. In contrast, adopting a ‘connected histories’ perspective makes Chinese citizenship a constitutive part of a modernity that is still unfolding. Since the nineteenth century, concerns about citizenship have been central…
Segmented Publics and the Regulation of Critical Speech in China
In contemporary China strict censorship coexists with significant freedom of expression and restrictions are enforced inconsistently. Yet certain principles underlie determinations of what is acceptable public speech, depending on the institutional location of the utterance, the identity of the speaker and the time of the event. What is allowed depends on the specific circumstances, but it results from patterns in the institutional practices of C…
Between a rock and a hard place: Academic freedom in globalising Chinese universities
This article examines academic freedom in China amid the tensions within a marketised global political economy of knowledge production. Joining the global competition for hegemony in the ‘knowledge economy’, the Chinese authorities signalled an acceptance of the ‘rules of the game’, even though these have the potential to undermine domestic political control. Global (as opposed to national) rankings of universities were actually initiated in Chin…
Legitimating exclusion and inclusion: Culture’, education and entitlement to local urban citizenship in Tianjin and Lanzhou
The paradigmatic ‘migrant’ in China is a worker of rural origin, but more than 30% of the one-fifth of the population living and working away from their place of hukou registration are inter-urban migrants, a group mostly neglected by scholars. Based on ethnographic observation and interviews from two Chinese cities – one on the coast, one in the impoverished interior – this article examines how a range of types of migrants deal with citizenship …
Model code of conduct: Protection of academic freedom and the academic community in the context of the internationalisation of the UK HE sector
Unused powers: Contestation over autonomy legislation in the PRC
The most important power granted to autonomous areas in China’s system of Nationalities Regional Autonomy should allow them to modify higher-level laws and policies through autonomy legislation. This is one of the two principal methods for the exercise of autonomy, with the other being the holding of key government posts by minority members. Yet efforts by the five autonomous regions to exercise their powers to enact autonomy legislation have bee…
The dynamics of localized citizenship at the grassroots in China
Grassroots organizations in urban and rural China offer intriguing perspectives for citizenship studies, this article argues. Paradoxically perhaps, China is one of the few places where the right to self-government is recognized in law, through the medium of these local semi-state committees. China’s response to Covid reaffirmed their importance, revealing how they (variably) organize urban and rural residents. In ordinary times, such committees …
Quelle liberté d'association en Chine ? [La promotion des organisations à but non lucratif est concomitante d'une restriction de la liberté d'association]: La promotion des organisations à but non luc…
Human Rights: Chinese and Canadian Perspectives . Errol P. Mendes , Anne-Marie Traeholt
Quelle liberté d'association en Chine ? [La promotion des organisations à but non lucratif est concomitante d'une restriction de la liberté d'association]: La promotion des organisations à but non luc…
Aide bilatérale et droits de l'homme
Ethics in Action: The Ethical Challenges of International Human Rights Nongovernmental Organizations
This book is the product of a multi-year dialogue between leading human rights theorists and high-level representatives of international human rights NGOs (INGOs). It is divided into three parts that reflect the major ethical challenges discussed at the workshops: the ethical challenges associated with interaction between relatively rich and powerful northern-based human rights INGOs and recipients of their aid in the South; whether and how to co…
Unused powers: Contestation over autonomy legislation in the PRC
The most important power granted to autonomous areas in China’s system of Nationalities Regional Autonomy should allow them to modify higher-level laws and policies through autonomy legislation. This is one of the two principal methods for the exercise of autonomy, with the other being the holding of key government posts by minority members. Yet efforts by the five autonomous regions to exercise their powers to enact autonomy legislation have bee…
Practising Self-Government: A Comparative Study of Autonomous Regions
Segmented Publics and the Regulation of Critical Speech in China
In contemporary China strict censorship coexists with significant freedom of expression and restrictions are enforced inconsistently. Yet certain principles underlie determinations of what is acceptable public speech, depending on the institutional location of the utterance, the identity of the speaker and the time of the event. What is allowed depends on the specific circumstances, but it results from patterns in the institutional practices of C…
Legitimating exclusion and inclusion: Culture’, education and entitlement to local urban citizenship in Tianjin and Lanzhou
The paradigmatic ‘migrant’ in China is a worker of rural origin, but more than 30% of the one-fifth of the population living and working away from their place of hukou registration are inter-urban migrants, a group mostly neglected by scholars. Based on ethnographic observation and interviews from two Chinese cities – one on the coast, one in the impoverished interior – this article examines how a range of types of migrants deal with citizenship …
Introduction: Practicing citizenship in contemporary China
Citizenship in China – and elsewhere in the global South – has been perceived as either a distorted echo of the ‘real’ democratic version in Europe and North America, or an orientalized ‘other’ that defines what citizenship is not. In contrast, adopting a ‘connected histories’ perspective makes Chinese citizenship a constitutive part of a modernity that is still unfolding. Since the nineteenth century, concerns about citizenship have been central…
Introducing radical democratic citizenship: From practice to theory
For our special issue, ‘Radical Democratic Citizenship: From Practice to Theory’, we examine different forms of radical theorising and politics at the grassroots. Radical democratic citizenship entails forms of struggle against gross social, economic and political miseries and injustices. This special issue explores the implications of a renewed wave of revolutionary grassroots action. ‘Radical’ indicates firstly the potential for sustained funda…
Exploring ‘festive commoning’ in radical gatherings in Scotland
Drawing on immersive ethnographic fieldwork at three events in Scotland, all grounded in ecological sensibilities and focusing respectively on alternative medicine, music and reviving seasonal celebrations, this article illuminates aspects of what we call ‘festive commoning’. We ask: how, and to what extent, were commons ‘against and beyond’ capital produced in these gatherings? We re-read a history of resistance to festive autonomy in this light…
Between a rock and a hard place: Academic freedom in globalising Chinese universities
This article examines academic freedom in China amid the tensions within a marketised global political economy of knowledge production. Joining the global competition for hegemony in the ‘knowledge economy’, the Chinese authorities signalled an acceptance of the ‘rules of the game’, even though these have the potential to undermine domestic political control. Global (as opposed to national) rankings of universities were actually initiated in Chin…
Model code of conduct: Protection of academic freedom and the academic community in the context of the internationalisation of the UK HE sector
Differentiating risks to academic freedom in the globalised university in China
Academic freedom in China is unquestionably under threat from various quarters. Yet the assumption that only the logics of authoritarian Communist Party power shape the terrain in which scholars operate provides us with a limited perspective on these threats. The Chinese academy has become deeply entangled with transnational forces, and is increasingly driven by similar business logics to those in play in universities around the world. We argue t…
The dynamics of localized citizenship at the grassroots in China
Grassroots organizations in urban and rural China offer intriguing perspectives for citizenship studies, this article argues. Paradoxically perhaps, China is one of the few places where the right to self-government is recognized in law, through the medium of these local semi-state committees. China’s response to Covid reaffirmed their importance, revealing how they (variably) organize urban and rural residents. In ordinary times, such committees …
Political science (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Politics (10 works) · Political economy (7 works) · China (6 works) · Democracy (5 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works)