BICC Position

British Inter-University China Centre Career Development Fellow/Lecturer in Politics, University of Manchester

 

Home institution

University of Manchester

 

Contact Information

Email: e.v.barabantseva@manchester.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)161 2752505

Fax: +44 (0)161 2754295

 

Professional biography

BA (Hons) Belarusian State University, Minsk; MA University of Manchester, PhD (2006) University of Manchester

Five-year BICC Postdoctoral Fellow since Sept 2006

 

Research Interests

Chinese identity politics and nationalism, transnationalism, theories of nation-state

 

Current research project

Elena is currently working on a book manuscript based on her PhD thesis. Her book, provisionally entitled "Marginality and Nation: Ethnic Minorities and Overseas Chinese in China’s Modernisation Project", recovers the close relationship between nationalism and modernisation and traces its dynamics in shaping the limits of China’s national project. By looking specifically at the roles of China’s ethnic minorities and overseas Chinese in the sequence of the state-led modernisation projects, this study analyses the shifting nature of the Chinese nation-state through emphasising its practices and discourses around the goal of modernisation across subnational and transnational spaces.

 

Teaching

MA Module: (POLI60321) Perspectives on Contemporary China

 

Publications

“From the Language of Class to the Rhetoric of Development: Discourses of ‘Nationality’ and ‘Ethnicity’ in China”, forthcoming in the Journal of Contemporary China.

‘The Party-State’s Transnational Outreach: Overseas Chinese Policies of the PRC’s Central Government’, Greater China Occasional Paper Series No. 2, Institute of Chinese and Korean Studies, University of Tubingen, August 2005.

 ‘Trans-Nationalising Chinese Nation-State: Overseas Chinese in the PRC’s Modernisation Strategies’, ASIEN (refereed journal of the German Association for Asian Studies), July 2005.