Nicholas Loubere
I am an area specialist focusing on contemporary China and its global manifestations. My research sits at the nexus of interdisciplinary China Studies and Development Studies, and draws inspiration from a wide range of fields across the humanities and social sciences. I have a varied and eclectic educational background, with a BA in English Literature from Northern Illinois University, an MA in International Relations from Xiamen University, and a PhD in East Asian Studies from the University of Leeds.
I am currently engaged in three main strands of research, which are interconnected and build on each other. My primary area of study to date has been the formulation and implementation of microcredit programmes for rural development in China, as well as financial inclusion initiatives and digital financial penetration more broadly. My second strand of research concerns Chinese migration to Ghana for informal, small-scale gold mining—particularly focusing on socioeconomic transformation in Ghana and China, processes and patterns of migration, and flows of resources. Underpinning these two areas of inquiry, my third strand of research critically reflects on the methodological techniques used to collect and analyse data in Chinese Studies and Development Studies, especially with regard to empirical fieldwork based on grounded, ethnographic, and/or participatory approaches.
In addition to these three main strands of research I am also engaged in work related to the field of China Studies more broadly, and am involved in the Open Access movement, particularly through the Made in China Journal, which I co-edit.
Publications
Retrieved from Lund University's publications database
Publications
- 2019
- Another False Messiah : The Rise and Rise of Fin-tech in Africa
(2019)
Other - Chinese Engagement in Africa : Fragmented Power and Ghanaian Gold
(2019) China Story Yearbook 2018 : Power
Book chapter - Development on Loan : Microcredit and Marginalisation in Rural China
(2019) Transforming Asia
Book - Introduction
(2019) Afterlives of Chinese Communism : Political Concepts from Mao to Xi
Book chapter - Is Fin-Tech the New Panacea for Poverty Alleviation and Local Development? : Contesting Suri and Jack’s M-Pesa Findings Published in Science
(2019) Review of African Political Economy
Journal article - Kenya's Mobile Money Revolution
(2019)
Other - South‐South Irregular Migration : The Impacts of China's Informal Gold Rush in Ghana
(2019) International Migration
Journal article - The Curious Case of M-Pesa’s Miraculous Poverty Reduction Powers
(2019)
Other - Unequal Extractions : Reconceptualizing the Chinese Miner in Ghana
(2019) Labour, Capital and Society
Journal article
- Another False Messiah : The Rise and Rise of Fin-tech in Africa
- 2018
- Censoring the Academy : The Cambridge University Press Scandal and Beyond
(2018) China Story Yearbook 2017 : Prosperity
Book chapter - Changing Frontiers and Invisible Politics in Northeast Asia : A Conversation with Tessa Morris-Suzuki
(2018) Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review
Journal article - China's Dystopian Social Credit System Is a Harbinger of the Global Age of the Algorithm
(2018)
Other - Der Datifizierte Bürger in China – Repressive Technologien in Den Diensten Von Vertrauen Und Gerechtigkeit
(2018)
Other - How the Chinese Censors Highlight Fundamental Flaws in Academic Publishing
(2018)
Other - Indebted to Development : Microcredit as (De)marginalisation in Rural China
(2018) Journal of Peasant Studies
Journal article - Land Wars : A Conversation with Brian DeMare
(2018) Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights
Journal article - South-South Labour Migration and the Impact of the Informal China-Ghana Gold Rush 2008-13
(2018) WIDER Working Paper
Working paper - The Global Age of Algorithm : Social Credit and the Financialisation of Governance in China
(2018) Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights
Journal article - The Policy and Practice of Microcredit in Rural China : Toward a Relational Understanding of Heterogeneous Implementation
(2018) Modern China
Journal article
- Censoring the Academy : The Cambridge University Press Scandal and Beyond
- 2017
- Beyond the Great Paywall : A Lesson from the Cambridge University Press China incident
(2017) Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights
Journal article - China’s Internet Finance Boom and Tyrannies of Inclusion
(2017) China Perspectives
Journal article - Cyber Loan Sharks, Social Credit, and New Frontiers of Digital Control
(2017) China Story Yearbook 2016: Control
Book chapter - Global Development Fieldwork: A Relational Perspective
(2017) Understanding Global Development Research: Fieldwork Issues, Experiences and Reflections
Book chapter - Laying Off Responsibility: Microcredit, Entrepreneurship, and China’s Industrial Retrenchment
(2017) Made in China Yearbook 2016: Disturbances in Heaven
Book chapter - Liberating Development Inquiry: Freedom, Openness and Participation in Fieldwork
(2017) Understanding Global Development Research: Fieldwork Issues, Experiences and Reflections
Book chapter - L’essor de la Finance sur Internet en Chine et les Tyrannies de l’inclusion
(2017) Perspectives Chinoises
Journal article - Of Tartar Princesses, Poetry and Mongol Khans
(2017)
Other - Questioning Transcription: The Case for the Systematic and Reflexive Interviewing and Reporting (SRIR) Method
(2017) Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung
Journal article - There and Back Again: Conceptualising the Chinese Gold Rush in Ghana
(2017) Made in China Yearbook 2016: Disturbances in Heaven
Book chapter - Towards a Relational Understanding of Development Research
(2017) Understanding Global Development Research: Fieldwork Issues, Experiences and Reflections
Book chapter - Under Threat: Working in Dangerous Environments
(2017) Understanding Global Development Research: Fieldwork Issues, Experiences, and Reflections
Book chapter
- Beyond the Great Paywall : A Lesson from the Cambridge University Press China incident
- 2016
- Inside Out : Owen Lattimore on China
(2016)
Other
- Inside Out : Owen Lattimore on China
- 2015
- Co-operative Financial Institutions and Local Development in China
(2015) Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management
Journal article - Rural Finance and Development in China: The State of the Art and Ways Forward
(2015) Rural Livelihoods in China: Political Economy in Transition
Book chapter
- Co-operative Financial Institutions and Local Development in China
- 2014
- Rice Wine and Fieldwork in China: Some Reflections on Practicalities, Positionality and Ethical Issues
(2014)
Other - Social Support and the ‘Left Behind’ Elderly in Rural China: A Case Study from Jiangxi Province
(2014) Journal of Community Health
Journal article
- Rice Wine and Fieldwork in China: Some Reflections on Practicalities, Positionality and Ethical Issues
- 2013
- Rural Finance, Development and Livelihoods in China
(2013)
Working paper
- Rural Finance, Development and Livelihoods in China
Editor
- 2019
- 2018
- Made in China Yearbook 2017 : Gilded Age
(2018)
Book
- Made in China Yearbook 2017 : Gilded Age
- 2017
- 2012
- RiDNet Practical Fieldwork Notes : Volume 1
(2012)
Conference publication
- RiDNet Practical Fieldwork Notes : Volume 1
Associate senior lecturer
Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University
118A
Sölvegatan 18B, Lund
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