Dr. Karsten Giese

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Senior Research Fellow

GIGA Institute of Asian Studies

Rothenbaumchaussee 32
20148 Hamburg
Germany

Tel Tel.: +49 (0)40 - 42 88 74-44

Fax +49 (0)40 - 410 79 50

karsten.giese@giga-hamburg.de

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 - 2018

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.) (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 / 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

Giese, Karsten / Thiel, Alena (2012), When Voicelessness Meets Speechlessness – Struggling for Equity in Chinese-Ghanaian Employment Relations, GIGA Working Paper, No. 194, May 2012, Hamburg: GIGA