Qian Zhang

About

I earned a PhD in human geography from Stockholm University and my research seeks critical geographic understanding of inequalities and sustainabilities. My PhD thesis used a political ecology approach to critically explore the complex politics, spatial tensions and interactions between environmental change, grassland use and policy interventions in a pastoral context of Northern China. During and after the dotoral education, I have further developed my core research inquiries on and at the intersection of several themes including labour migration, climate migration, rural/agrarian transformation, and recently digital geographies and the gig economy. My studies have mainly focused on Sweden and China.

Work

Stockholm University

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Researcher

Sweden

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Publications

Climate change adaptation and digitalization: a critical review towards equal and just agricultural transformations

Climate and Development

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Strategic silences for normative work: Inclusions and exclusions of migrant labour in policy foregrounding of the Swedish gig economy

Geoforum

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The globalization-migration nexus across China’s internal and international human movements

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Contextualizing the rural in digital studies: A computational literature review of rural-digital relations

Technology in Society

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Understanding the spatiality of the rural poor's livelihoods in Northeast China: Geographical context, location and urban hierarchy

Applied Geography

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Unpacking spatial tensions: An interdisciplinary analysis of large-scale solar farm effects in drylands

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Re-visiting the ‘black box’ of migration: state-intermediary co-production of regulatory spaces of labour migration

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Centering social-technical relations in studying platform urbanism: intersectionality for just futures in European cities

Urban Transformations

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Channelling through bureaucracy: How migration intermediaries and state actors (re)shape Chinese migration to the Swedish restaurant industry

Geoforum

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Careers Delivered from the Kitchen? Immigrant Women Small-scale Entrepreneurs Working in the Growing Nordic Platform Economy

NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research

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Reconstruction of cropland change in North China Plain Area over the past 300 years

Global and Planetary Change

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Keeping agriculture alive next to the city – The functions of the land tenure regime nearby Gothenburg, Sweden

Land Use Policy

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Managing sandstorms through resettling pastoralists in China: how multiple forms of power govern the environment at/across scales

Journal of Political Ecology

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On waiting, work-time and imagined futures: Theorising temporal precariousness among Chinese chefs in Sweden’s restaurant industry

Geoforum

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Reclaiming localisation for revitalising agriculture: A case study of peri-urban agricultural change in Gothenburg, Sweden

Journal of Rural Studies

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Reconstruction of cropland change over the past 300 years in the Jing-Jin-Ji area, China

Regional Environmental Change

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Methods for cropland reconstruction based on gazetteers in the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911): A case study in Zhili province, China

Applied Geography

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The Dilemma of Conserving Rangeland by Means of Development: Exploring Ecological Resettlement in a Pastoral Township of Inner Mongolia

Nomadic Peoples

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