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Patriotic Professionalism: Questions of Subjectivity and Governmentality in Urban China
Lisa Hoffman will speak about subjectivity and governmentality in urban China at the University of Washington.
When:
December 9, 2010 3:30pm to 12:00am
Where
Lisa Hoffman is Associate Professor and Interim Director of Urban Studies, University of Washington Tacoma. Her research interests include subject formation processes, urban and spatial transformations that are linked with governmental changes, and the emergence of new techniques and forms of governing. China has been her main research site, with major projects on the emergence of urban professionals, processes of rural urbanization, and recent discourses of green urbanisms. Her current project examines
volunteerism and charitable donations as modes of solving social problems in urban China.
She received her MA in China Regional Studies from the UW's Jackson School of International Studies and PhD in Cultural Anthropology from UC Berkeley.
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(206) 543-6938
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