Andrew Grant
University of Colorado Boulder
7 Papers
44 Citations
Andrew Grant is an academic researcher from University of Colorado Boulder. The author has contributed to research in topics: China & Civilization. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 7 publications. Previous affiliations of Andrew Grant include University of California, Los Angeles.
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Papers
Channeling Xining: Tibetan Place-Making in Western China during the Era of Commodity Housing
TL;DR: The authors argue that a focus on channeling in place-making provides a way to move beyond typical accounts of resistance and domination in China's Xining City, and propose a new approach based on the idea of channeling.
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Hyperbuilding the civilized city: ethnicity and marginalization in Eastern Tibet
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors proposed that Western China and the states of Central Asia are increasingly urbanized, and governments are investing large sums in founding and expanding cities Rapid and spectacular hyperbuilding has led to th
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Belonging and Ethnicity in China's West: Urbanizing Minorities in Xining City on the Eastern Tibetan Plateau
Andrew Grant
- 01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use discourse analysis of Chinese public intellectuals and policy changes to show how the Chinese state conceives of the Western Region as a state development project and how Tibetans and Muslims come to live in Xining City, the provincial capital of Qinghai Province.
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Mega-Events and Nationalism: The 2008 Olympic Torch Relay
TL;DR: Boyer and Yurchak as mentioned in this paper explored the possibilities of satirical humor in compromising mega-event promoters' attempts to propagate geopolitical visions and territorial claims in the Olympic Torch Relay.
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Authoritarian cities go global
TL;DR: When global and spectacular words are used to describe cities, visions of the great urban centers of North America, Europe and East Asia typically come to mind as discussed by the authors. But travelers to cities less well-known...
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