Xiaobo Su
My area of interest covers cultural politics, tourism development, and urban heritage. My current research project investigates the politics of tourism in China's heritage sites when these sites become increasingly exposed to global capitalistic tendencies arising from tourism. My work focuses on the issues of representation, commodification, nationalism and spatial inclusion/exclusion in a global-national-local nexus in order to examine the radical transition of China after 1978.
Recently, I have developed a new research line to examine China's state spatial policies. With a specific focus on Yunnan Province, I explore how the Chinese state rescales to implement the going-out strategy and produce new spaces of development. Particularly, I examine how the Chinese state reconfigures its institutional ensemble to integrate landlocked Yunnan Province into the transnational economy embodied in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS).
Basically, my research approach mainly draws on Gramsci's theory of hegemony in order to explore the structure-agency dialectic in China. Besides Antonio Gramsci, other social theorists I am interested in include Henri Lefebvre, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel de Certeau, and Edward Said.
My area of interest covers cultural politics, tourism development, and urban heritage. My current research project investigates the politics of tourism in China's heritage sites when these sites become increasingly exposed to global capitalistic tendencies arising from tourism. My work focuses on the issues of representation, commodification, nationalism and spatial inclusion/exclusion in a global-national-local nexus in order to examine the radical transition of China after 1978.
Recently, I have developed a new research line to examine China's state spatial policies. With a specific focus on Yunnan Province, I explore how the Chinese state rescales to implement the going-out strategy and produce new spaces of development. Particularly, I examine how the Chinese state reconfigures its institutional ensemble to integrate landlocked Yunnan Province into the transnational economy embodied in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS).
Basically, my research approach mainly draws on Gramsci's theory of hegemony in order to explore the structure-agency dialectic in China. Besides Antonio Gramsci, other social theorists I am interested in include Henri Lefebvre, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel de Certeau, and Edward Said.
