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Dr. Karsten Giese
Senior Research Fellow
GIGA Institute of Asian Studies
Rothenbaumchaussee 32
20148 Hamburg
Germany
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Tel.: +49 (0)40 - 42 88 74-44
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+49 (0)40 - 410 79 50
karsten.giese@giga-hamburg.de
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Personal Information
Short biography
2009: Guest professorship at Université Diderot/Paris VII
2007: Visiting Scholar at the German Embassy Beijing
2005 - 2015: Editor of the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs (formerly CHINA aktuell)
Since 2000: Senior Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies
1990 - 2000: Interpreter and translator for Chinese
Education: Dr phil. in Modern China Studies (Free University Berlin); M.A. in Modern China Studies, Sociology und Political Science (in Berlin and Taibei); Diplom (equiv. M.A.) Translation/Interpretation of Chinese (Humboldt University of Berlin); Scholarships granted by the German Accademic Exchange Foundation DAAD (Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Macau ) and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (Germany)
Memberships
Association for Asian Studies (AAS)
European Association of Asian Studies (EACS)
Exevutive board member of the German Association for Asian Studies (DGA)
Association for Social Science Research on China (ASC)
International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas (ISSCO)
Chinese in Africa/Africans in China Research Working Group (CA/AC
Research & Teaching
GIGA Research Programme
Growth and Development
Current Research
West African Traders as Translators Between Chinese and African Urban Modernities
Chinese Entrepreneurial Migrants in Urban West Africa – Sociocultural Impacts of Intercultural Interaction
Ethnic Migrant Workers in China – Perspectives of Poverty Reduction, Socioeconomic Development, Sociocultural Change and Individual Exploitation (planning stage)
Countries and Regions
PR China
Taiwan
Research Projects
ongoing
West African Traders as Translators Between Chinese and African Urban Modernities
German Research Foundation (DFG)
|
2013 - 2019
completed
Entrepreneurial Chinese Migrants and Petty African Entrepreneurs: Local Impacts of Interaction in Urban West Africa (Ghana and Senegal)
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
|
2011 - 2013
Teaching
Challenging Paradigms of Social Organization among new Chinese Overseas, Universität: Nottingham, WiSe 2014/2015
It’s the Family, Stupid! Zeit für einen Paradigmenwechsel in den Overseas Chinese Studies, Universität Wien, SoSe 2014
China und Afrika von unten: chinesische und afrikanische Händler in Westafrika, Institut für Geographie, Erlangen, SoSe 2011
New developments in Chinese migration to Germany, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, WiSe 2008/9
Publications
Recent Books
Giese, Karsten / Marfaing, Laurence
(eds.) (2018),
Chinese and African Entrepreneurs: Social Impacts of Interpersonal Encounters
, Leiden: Brill
Giese, Karsten / Marfaing, Laurence
(eds.) (2016),
Entrepreneurs africains et chinois: Les impacts sociaux d’une rencontre particulière
, Paris: Karthala
Recent Refereed Articles
Giese, Karsten
(2016),
无心插柳柳成荫:西非中国新移民商人与当地草根社会创新的关联互动分析
, in:
华人研究国际学报 (The International Journal of Diasporic Chinese Studies)
, 8, 1
Giese, Karsten / Thiel, Alena
(2015),
Chinese factor in the space, place and agency of female head porters in urban Ghana
, in:
Social & Cultural Geography
, 16, 4, 444-464
Giese, Karsten / Thiel, Alena
(2015),
The psychological contract in Chinese-African informal labor relations
, in:
International Journal of Human Resource Management
, 26, 14, 1807-1826
Giese, Karsten / Thiel, Alena
(2014),
The Vulnerable Other – Distorted Equity in Chinese-Ghanaian Employment Relations
, in:
Ethnic and Racial Studies
, 37, 6, 1101-1120
Giese, Karsten
(2013),
Same-Same But Different: Chinese Traders' Perspectives on African Labor
, in:
China Journal
, 69, 134-153
Recent Articles
Giese, Karsten / Marfaing, Laurence / Thiel, Alena
(2018),
Introduction: From Rejection to Social Change
, in: Karsten Giese / Laurence Marfaing (eds.),
Chinese and African Entrepreneurs: Social Impacts of Interpersonal Encounters
, Leiden: Brill, 1-16
Giese, Karsten / Liang, Kelly Si Miao
(2018),
Shifting Territorialities of an African Space in China
, in: Ulf Engel / Marc Boeckler / Detlef Müller-Mahn (eds.),
Spatial Practices: Territory, Border and Infrastructure in Africa
, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 129-149
Giese, Karsten
(2017),
Chinese Traders in Ghana: The Liminality Trap, and Challenges for Ethnic Formation and Integration
, in: Min Zhou (ed.),
Contemporary Chinese Diasporas
, Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 53-77
Giese, Karsten
(2016),
Partenaires en affaires et employeurs: commercants chinois, faciliteurs de micro-innovations sociales en Afrique de l’Ouest
, in: Karsten Giese / Laurence Marfaing (eds.),
Entrepreneurs africains et chinois, Les impacts sociaux d’une rencontre particulière
, Paris: Karthala, 179-206
Giese, Karsten / Marfaing, Laurence / Thiel, Alena
(2016),
Du rejet des autres à leur implication dans les dynamiques de changement social
, in: Karsten Giese / Laurence Marfaing (eds.),
Entrepreneurs africains et chinois: Les impacts sociaux d’une rencontre particulière
, Paris: Karthala, 7-28
Recent Miscellaneous
Giese, Karsten
(2014),
Beyond statistics: A qualitative look at the employment effects in the Chinese trade clusters of Ghana and Senegal
Events & Media
Recent Lectures
Lecture
Trapped in trade. The Chinese immobility paradox in Africa
15th EASA Biennial Conference
13 August 2018
| Stockholm
Conference Participation
China-Africa in Global Perspective
27 June 2018
| Brussels
Lecture
The paradox Sino-African tomato paste GPN
Conference on Global Production (CGP) 2017
06 December 2017
| Singapore
Lecture
Failing state policies but successes in labour market inclusion: The Chinese trading sector in Ghana
ILO Conference on Regulating for Decent Work 2017
03 July 2017
| Genf
Conference Participation
8. Tagung der DGA-Nachwuchsgruppe
27 January 2017
| Rothenfels
Recent Media Contributions
Deutsche Welle |
29.02.2012
Chinese traders are shaking things up in the markets of Africa
Interview mit Alena Thiel, Laurence Marfaing und Karsten Giese