Curriculum vitae

Längerfristige Lehr-, Forschungs- und Beratungstätigkeiten in China

Forschungsschwerpunkte

Lehr- und Forschungsschwerpunkte

• Gesellschaft und Politik des modernen China, besonders:
• Binnenmigration, Migrantensiedlungen und Megastadtentwicklung in China, methodisch geht es dabei um die Verbindung von Mikro- und Makrostudien und um die Entwicklung komparativer Ansätze zu interner und internationaler Migration;
• Sozialverträglichkeitsprüfungen chinesischer Infrastrukturprojekte, Umsiedlungen und Umsiedlungspolitik;
• weitere Schwerpunkte: NGOs und Zivilgesellschaft; China als Empfänger und Geber von Entwicklungshilfe; deutsch-chinesische Beziehungen und Entwicklungszusammenarbeit; Sozialwissenschaften in China.

Laufende Forschungen (zu Publikationen siehe Publikationsliste)

• Mikrostudien zu informellen Dynamiken interner Migration und Megastadtentwicklung in China
• Chinesischen Investitionen in Infrastruktur - Soziale Folgeabschätzungen einer nationalen und internationalen Entwicklungsstrategie

Abgeschlossene Forschungsprojekte

• “Patterns of Migrant Community Formation in China´s Megaurban Pearl River Delta – Linking Informal Dynamics, Governability and Global Change” (2011/2013, Phase 3), gefördert mit einer Sachmittelbeihilfe der DFG
• “Internal and International Migrant Communities in the Pearl River Delta/ China – Linking Informal Migration Dynamics, Global Change and Urban Health” (2009/2010, Phase 2), gefördert mit einer Sachmittelbeihilfe der DFG
• “Informal Migrant Communities and Health Strategies in Urban Villages of the Pearl River Delta/China – Linking Global Change and Urban Health” (2007/2008, Phase 1), gefördert mit einer Sachmittelbeihilfe der DFG
• Workshop “Environmental and Social Safeguard Policies in German and Chinese Infrastructure Projects” (2010), gefördert mit Unterstützung des BMBF
• „Anomische Strukturen sozialen Wandels in der VR China. Migranten und Migrantensiedlungen in chinesischen Großstädten“
• Laufzeit: 1998-2001, gefördert mit einer Sachmittelbeihilfe der DFG

Neuere Publikationen im Rahmen laufender Forschung

(Recent publications of ongoing research, selected)

1. Migrants‘ Agency and Megacity Development in China

2021

“Migrant actions and government responses: African traders in the Pearl River Delta, China”, in: Immigration Governance in East Asia. Norm Diffusion, Politics of Identity, Citizenship, ed. by Gunter Schubert, Franziska Plümmer, and Anastasiya Bayok, London (2021): Routledge, 43-66.

“Contestation Over Moral Economy: Distant Resettlement from the Three Gorges Area to the Pearl River Delta”, in: The Political Economy of Hydropower in Southwest China and Beyond, ed. by Jean-François Rousseau and Sabrina Habich-Sobiegalla, Palgrave Macmillan (2021), 69-88.

2019 

重建睦邻: 广州的旧城改造,公民行动与承认冲突, in 沈原 Shen Yuan,李阿林 Li Alin等, 老旧街区的社区建设 Community Building of the Old Block – Dashilanr, Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press (2019), 163-183. (translation from China Perspectives 2/2014).

“Urban Restructuring”, 82-85; “Migrants as Labor Force”, 86-89; “Regulating Migration in China’s Megacities”, 89-92 (all co-authored), in Mega Cities, Mega Challenge. Informal Dynamics of Global Change. Insights from Dhaka, Bangladesh and Pearl River Delta, China, ed. by Frauke Kraas; Kirsten Hackenbroch; Harald Sterly; Jost Heintzenberg; Peter Herrle; Volker Kreibich, Stuttgart (2019): Borntraeger Science Publishers.

2016

“Labour Rights and Beyond – How Chinese Migrant Worker NGOs Negotiate Urban Spaces in the Pearl River Delta” (co-authored with Zhu Jiangang),in:  Population, Space and Place 22:2 (March 2016), pp. 185–198.

2015

„Urbanisation, Rural-to-Urban Migrants and Housing in China“, in: The EU-China Relationship. European Perspectives. A Manual for Policy Makers, ed. by Kerry Brown,  London (2015): Imperial College Press, pp.452-465.

“Sustaining livelihoods in urban villages: health risks and health strategies among rural-to-urban migrants in China – the case of Guangzhou” (2015), in: Rural Livelihoods in China. Political Economy in Transition, ed. By Heather Xiaoquan Zhang, London (2015): Routledge, pp. 74-92. 

2014

China Perspectives No.2/2014: "Special Feature on “Contested urban spaces – Whose right to the city?” (Special issue editor)

“Reclaiming the neighbourhood – Urban redevelopment, citizen activism and conflicts of recognition in Guangzhou”, in China Perspectives No.2/2014, pp. 17-25.

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Chinese Migrant Workers and Occupational Injuries: A Case Study of the Manufacturing Industry in the Pearl River Delta, (first author), co-authored with G. Zheng, A. Leong and L. Ling, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Working Paper 2014-1, Geneva www.unrisd.org/gransow-et-al.

„Urbanisation, Rural-to-Urban Migrants and Housing in China“ (2014) in Kerry Brown (ed), The EU-China Relationship. European Perspectives. A Manual for Policy Makers, London, Imperial College Press, pp. 452-465.

2013

“Migrant Communities, Informality and the Challenge of Urban Redevelopment in Chinese Megacities”, in: Rethinking the Urban. CUI'13. Contemporary Urban Issues, ed. by Catak, Neslihan/Duyan, Efe/Secer, Sinem, Istanbul: Dakam Publishing, pp.247-258.

2012

“Contested Urbanization in China: Exploring Informal Spaces of Migrants-in-the-city”, in: Harvard Asia Quarterly, Vol. XIV, No.1&2, Spring/Summer 2012, pp.12-24.

„Internal Migration in China – Opportunity or Trap?“, Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung 2012 https://www.bpb.de/gesellschaft/migration/kurzdossiers/151359/internal-migration-in-china.

2011

“Migrant Communities and Social Change in Chinese Megacities: Slum Formation or Urban Innovation?”, in: Migration and Integration. Reflections on Our Common Future, ed. by Bade, Klaus J. /Lorentz, Bernhard/ Pries, Ludger, Leipzig (2011): CEP Europäische Verlagsanstalt, pp. 65-97.

“Marketization and Informalization of Health Care Services in Mega-urban China” (co-authored withTabea Bork, Frauke Kraas and Yuan Yuan), in: Health in Megacities and Urban Areas, ed. by A. Krämer et al. (eds), Berlin and Heidelberg (2011): Springer Press, pp. 175-190.

2010

Migrants and Health in China. History and Society. Berliner China-Hefte 38 (2010) (Special issue editor together with Zhou Daming), Münster: Lit Verlag.

“Body as Armor. Health Risks and Health Consciousness among Rural Migrants in Urban China” In: Berliner China-Hefte 38, 2010 (ed. by Bettina Gransow and Zhou Daming), Münster: Lit Verlag, pp. 9-27. 

2. China‘s Infrastructure Strategy and Social Safeguard Policies   

2021

“Wachstum durch Infrastruktur – eine umstrittene chinesische Entwicklungsstrategie“, erscheint in: Universitas (Heidelberg).

2019

“Social Risk Management at AIIB – Chinese or International Characteristics? (co-authored together with Susanna Price), in: Journal of Chinese Political Science (2019) 24:289–311. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11366-018-9553-8

2015

“Chinese Infrastructure Investment in Latin America – an Assessment of Strategies, Actors and Risks”, in: Journal of Chinese Political Science 20:3 (September 2015), pp. 267-287. DOI:10.1007/s11366-015-9362-2.

“Infrastructure Projects in China: Social Assessment as Governmental Technologies” (2015), in Susanna Price and Kathryn Robinson (eds), Making a Difference? Social Assessment Policy and Praxis and its Emergence in China, New York (2015): Berghahn Books, pp. 164-184.

2014

“Can Social Impact Assessment of Infrastructure Projects Contribute to Society Building and Social Governance in China?” (2014): Society Building – A China Model of Social Development, ed. by Chang Xiangqun, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 27-51.

Social Transformation in China and the Development of Social Assessment in China Gransow, B. (2014/2007): Developments in Social Impact Assessment, ed. by Frank Vanclay, Cheltenham, UK: Elgar Research Collection, [, International Review of Sociology, 17 (3) November, 539-58.], 453-472.

2007

Social Assessment Manual for Investment Projects in China - Turning Risks Into Opportunities. Compiled by China International Engineering Consulting Corporation. Revised English Version edited by Bettina Gransow & Susanna Price (bilingual edition, English/Chinese), Beijing: China Planning Press 2007.

“The Risk of Impoverishment – The Social Impact of Involuntary Resettlement in Rural China”, in China aktuell 36:2 (2007), pp. 40-65.

3. Knowledge Production in Chinese Sociology

2021

„Gesellschaft als Transformationsraum: Soziologische Theoriebildung in der VR China“, erscheint in: Handbuch Theorien der Soziologie, hrsg. von Heike Delitz, Julian Müller und Robert Seyfert, Wiesbaden (voraussichtlich 2021): Springer Fachmedien.

2019

“Bewitched by the History behind the Walls” – Robert Park and the Arc of Urban Sociology from Chicago to China”, in: The City in China: New Perspectives on Contemporary Urbanism, ed. by Ray Forrest, Julie Ren and Bart Wissink, Bristol (2019): Bristol University Press 2019, pp.17-40.

2017

Soziologische Chinastudien und Chinesische Soziologie im globalen Kontext: Geteiltes Wissen – unterschiedliche Forschungsperspektiven? in: Asien. The German Journal on Contemporary Asia 144 (July 2017), pp. 119-134.

2005

China. New Faces of Ethnography, Chinese History and Society. Berliner China-Hefte 28, Guest editor (together with Pal Nyíri und Shiaw-Chian Fong) and Introductory Remarks, pp.3-9, Münster (2005): Lit Verlag.

2003

“The Social Sciences in China“, in The Cambridge History of  Science, Vol. 7: The Modern Social Sciences, ed. by Theodore Porter and Dorothy Ross, Cambridge (2003): Cambridge University Press, pp. 498-514. „中国社会科学“, in:  剑桥科学史, 第七卷: 现代社会科学, 西奥多 M.  波特, 多萝西 罗斯 主编, 郑州: 大象出版社 2008, pp. 437-450.

„Soziologie“, in: Das grosse China-Lexikon, ed. by Brunhild Staiger, Stefan Friedrich und Hans-Wilm  Schuette, Hamburg: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2003, pp.695-696.

2001

“‘Nontranslatable’. Indigenous Concepts in Social Science Research on China”, in Asian Journal of Social Science (Singapur), 29:2 (2001), pp. 262-284.

2000

„Die chinesische Rezeption der Werke von Max Weber oder: Fremdverstehen und Selbstverstehen als Kategorien der Chinaforschung“, in: Ostasien verstehen. Peter Weber-Schaefer zu Ehren. Festschrift aus Anlass seiner Emeritierung, Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung Bd. 23, iudicium Verlag Muenchen 2000, pp.59-75.

1993

八十年代中国接受马克斯韦伯 (The Chinese reception of the works of Max Weber in the 1980s), in 国外社会学(Foreign Sociology) 5, Beijing (1993), pp.56-60.

Chinese Sociology: Sinicization and Globalization, in: International Sociology 8:1, London (1993): Sage Publications 1993, pp.101-112.

1992

Geschichte der chinesischen Soziologie, Frankfurt/ New York (1992): Campus.

4. Other Publications

2016

„Liang Qichao – Liang Sicheng – Liang Congjie. Three Generations of Public Intellectuals?“, in: Geschichte und Gesellschaft des modernen China. Kritik-Empirie-Theorie. Festschrift für Mechthild Leutner, ed. by Katja Levy, Frankfurt/Main (2016): Peter Lang, pp. 393-418 (in German).

2013

China’s South-South Relations. History and Society. Berliner China-Hefte Vol. 42, 2013 Münster: Lit Verlag (Special issue editor).

2011

„Deutsche und internationale Entwicklungszusammenarbeit mit China – Erfahrungen, Sichtweisen, Perspektiven“, in: Deutsch-Chinesische Beziehungen. Berliner China-Hefte 39 (2011) Münster: Lit Verlag (Special issue editor: Katja Levy), pp. 6-27.

2009

“Institutional Change in China's Anti-Poverty Policy: the Contested Role of NGOs”, Regime Legitimacy in Contemporary China. Institutional Change and Stability, ed. by Thomas Heberer and Gunter Schubert, London (2009): Routledge, pp. 245-268.

2006

Gender Gaps and Poverty Reduction in China. A Synthesis Report (October 2006, 62 p.)