After studying international politics in the UK and Hong Kong, I joined BICC in 2007.
I love dim sum, Maoist propaganda films and loud debates on Chinese IR, all of
which are readily available in Manchester, which makes it the
perfect place to be doing my PhD. My research is concerned with the
implications of how we think about inside and outside, in the context of
Chinese actors in Asian regional organisations. This means I am interested in
all kinds of spatial (and temporal) concepts, like border, territory and
hospitality, as well as in the current affairs of contemporary Asian
regionalism. When I am not reading I love to meet new people and get them
talking, which is why I will convene the China Postgraduate Network in the
coming year (2008-2009).
Education
2008-present,
PhD candidate, The University of Manchester.
Thesis
title (subject to revision): Naming Asian Regions: China in New Regional
Initiatives.
Thesis
supervisors: Bill Callahan and Maja Zehfuss.
2008, MA with distinction, Contemporary China, The
University of Manchester.
Thesis title: Space in the Study of China’s international Relations.
Thesis supervisor: Elena Barabantseva.
2007,
BA with first class honours, Politics and International Studies, The University
of Warwick.
Part
of 2nd year spent at City University, Hong Kong.
Thesis
title: A New Chinese Foreign Policy? The Bo’ao Forum for Asia.
Thesis
supervisor: Shaun Breslin.
Publications/Conference
Papers
Nordin,
A. (2008) ‘Chinese power in the Asian region: the Boao Forum for Asia’, China Postgraduate
Network Launch Workshop, Chinese Institute, Oxford University, 16 March 2008.
WASS
collective (2007)‘Gender Transformations in Higher Education’, Sociological
Research Online 12 (1).
Developments
of this paper were also presented at conferences ‘Feminisms 2006’ in Sheffield 09.06.2006 and ‘Genderful Experiences’ in Birmingham
26.05.2006.
Nordin,
A. (2001-2004) About 100 newspaper articles, columns and reportages for
magazines Avtryck and Mellan Raderna and newspaper Länstidningen, all Swedish
publications.
Nordin,
A. (2000) ‘Längst bak till vänster’ in H. Vikstrom (ed.) (2000) Hora, Svenne,
Homo, Blatte <’At the back, to the left’ in Whore, Swede, Fag, Nigger> Stockholm: Sellin & partner:
Röda Korsets Ungdomsförbund (Swedish Red Cross).
Current
Extracurricular Projects and Activities
Co-convenor
of the China Postgraduate Network
(CPN) 2008-2009.
Conference
Coordinator of the Aberystwyth-Lancaster Postgraduate Colloquium 2009.
Conference
Coordinator of the Annual Conference of China Postgraduate Network
2009.
Reviewer, Political Perspectives Journal.
Member
of the Poststructuralism Reading Group, Politics Department, University of Manchester.
http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/disciplines/politics/research/reading/poststructuralism/
Awards
2007-2011,
BICC/ESRC Studentship Award.
2006, Department of
Politics and International Studies, The University of Warwick.
Wilfrid Harrison
Memorial Prize; for academic performance throughout the year and in
examinations.
2006, The Reinvention
Centre for Undergraduate Research.
Grant for research
project ‘The Bo’ao Forum and Asian Regional Integration: Ideas and
Institutions’.
2005,
The Reinvention Centre for Undergraduate Research.
Grant
rewarded to me as part of research group ‘WASS collective’, for research
project ‘Gender Transformations in Higher Education’.
Academic
Appointments
2005
– 2007, Student Fellow of the Reinvention Centre for Undergraduate Research.
2006,
Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong, as
part of research project ‘The Bo’ao Forum and Asian Regional Integration: Ideas
and Institutions’, co-hosted by the Department of Politics and International
Studies, University of Warwick.
Current
Teaching
Graduate
Teaching Assistant, Introduction to International Politics, University of Manchester.