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The field of global urban studies has seen a comparative turn in the last decade. But comparison\, as a method\, has yet to influence urban China stu dies. Most urban China research still confines itself to single-case method s involving only China. The lack of a comparative sensibility among China s cholars can be traced in part to claims of China exceptionalism. But in the wake of strained relations between the US and China that have made researc h collaboration with China more difficult and less fundable\, Xuefei Ren ar gues that the time is ripe to draw upon comparative research as a powerful heuristic device to better understand urban conditions in China and elsewhe re. In this talk\, she will discuss several of her comparative projects inv olving China\, on urban governance (China and India) and municipal response s to the Covid-19 pandemic (Shanghai\, Chicago\, Toronto and Johannesburg).
Xuefei Ren is a Professor of Sociology and Global U rban Studies at Michigan State University. Her most recent book\, Governing the Urban in China and India: Land Grabs\, Slum Clearance\, and the War on Air Pollution\, was published by Princeton University Press and won the Ro bert Park Best Book Award in Urban Sociology from the American Sociological Association. She is a public intellectual fellow with the National Committ ee on US-China Relations\, and a fellow of CIFAR (Canadian Institute for Ad vanced Research)’s Humanity’s Urban Future program. The program started in 2023 and examines health\, climate and migration policies in six metropolit an regions\, including Toronto\, Naples\, Kinshasa\, Kolkata\, Shanghai and Mexico City. She lives in Hyde Park\, Chicago.
This event has be en co-sponsored by the SFU Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences\, Urban Stud ies Program\, David Lam Centre\, and Department of Sociology and Anthropolo gy. It has been co-organized with the UBC Centre for Chinese Research.
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