Ding Fei

development/economic geographer, China-Africa researcher, Assistant Professor @Cornell_CRP

[Ding Fei @DingFei18]

Delighted to share that I'm joining @Cornell_CRP as Assistant Professor. Grateful for this opportunity and looking forward to working with amazing colleagues and students in @CornellAAP.

[Cornell AAP @CornellAAP]

Cornell AAP is excited to welcome new leadership and faculty to campus this fall, including Milton S. F. Curry, Sara Eddleman, Stuart S. Rosenthal, and Ding Fei. ➡️ Read the full feature: https://t.co/GHOpESe1IV

@Cornell_CRP @msfcurry @DingFei18

[Ding Fei @DingFei18]

Check out the new book series Obert and I are editing. Get in touch for inquires and expression of interests!

[Obert Hodzi @oberthom]

🚨 New Book Series @boydellbrewer edited by @DingFei18 & me on 'China–Africa Encounters: People, Power & Possibilities' invites book proposals on migration, culture, digital life & everyday connections. https://t.co/6cWJGIdXaA
#ChinaAfrica @CAAC_Network @LivUniPol @LuGraduate

[IJURR.org @IJURResearch]

Interventions | Broken Infrastructures and Urban Spaciousness (Compassion)

By Abdoumaliq Simone

👉 https://t.co/LT29oCPzRX

[The Urban Institute @Urban_Inst]

New Paper from the GlobalCORRIDOR project based here in Sheffield is out in the latest edition of @USJ_online

"The unending corridor: Critical approaches to the politics, logics and socio-technics of urban corridorisation"

https://t.co/fstu6oiaAx

[EPA: Economy and Space @economyandspace]

EPA is delighted to announce that the Ashby prizes for the most innovative papers published in the journal in 2024 were awarded to Don Mitchell (Uppsala) for his paper, ‘Labour geography is tedious: Of contracts, grievances and the nitty-gritty of worker agency in

[Ding Fei @DingFei18]

The second paper finds that limited policy attention and inconsistent interpretations of clauses like force majeure have led to uneven outcomes in labor dispute litigation.
https://t.co/WZ7AfhfQBm

[Ding Fei @DingFei18]

Happy to share two articles that came out from a project funded by @CornellCCSS seed grant. The project explores the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on Chinese overseas migrants in Africa and other BRI countries.

[Ding Fei @DingFei18]

The first paper argues that the pandemic reshaped the transnational (im)mobilities of Chinese migrants, both between China and African host countries and among different African destinations. https://t.co/NjUgJverW3

[Wendy Leutert @wendyleutert]

New @HarvardHBS working paper by @JorisMueller, @jaya_wen_econ & @cherylwoooo, "Public Displays of Alignment: Firm Speech in Autocratic Regimes," measures Chinese firms' rhetorical alignment with the state & analyzes its determinants and effects https://t.co/weEEXM0G3s

[Ilias Alami @IliasAlami]

Fantastic piece by @jessicamdicarlo and @MereDeBoom
Six paths of Global China: A genealogy of a contested geographical imaginary
https://t.co/J7uwI8iTW2

[Christoph Trebesch @Ch_Trebesch]

📢New deep-dive paper on China’s BRI lending (Georgetown/AidData/Kiel). We study "How China Collateralizes" its overseas loans — not with ports/infrastructure, but with cash in Chinese bank accounts. The techniques and volumes are striking.🧵Paper here: https://t.co/1gdbQFcUjb

[IJURR.org @IJURResearch]

📢 Available in Early View:

‘Darkening’ Informalized Workers: Moral Geographies and the In/Visibilization of Transnational Migrants in Spain

By Begoña Aramayona

👉 https://t.co/VzHwf7iME3

[Wendy Leutert @wendyleutert]

New study by Jiayan Yan, Ziliang Deng & @klausmeyer_couk finds executives of firms owned by China's central government are more likely to be promoted if they support state globalization goals, esp. by investing in countries aligned politically w/ China https://t.co/u8wBVrt4RN

[Jon Silver @InvisibleMapper]

We have a New Paper!
"A dialogue on global infrastructure-led urbanization: Concepts and reorientations"

in Dialogues in Human Geography w/ @simoneveglio7, @andretwp, Francesca Governa and @EliaApos

Open Access https://t.co/tjmrc3lR7n

[Lina Benabdallah 🎩 @LBenabdallah]

Glad to see this article out in @RIPEJournal! It was a pleasure to collaborate with Yujun combining her extensive fieldwork in Uganda and my work on human capital!
"Fragmenting China: a relational approach to analyzing Chinese private companies in Africa" https://t.co/fNXPYE0lkT

[Migrations Program at Cornell @CornellMig]

How does migration shape life in your community?

We invite students and staff to share essays, poetry, and art that answers this question for a chance to win a cash prize! Submissions due Feb. 28:
https://t.co/gjOjJzVlPP

[Ding Fei @DingFei18]

Looking forward to this semester's
@CornellAAP
City and Regional Planning Colloquium. Check out our events page for more details and zoom registration: https://t.co/JJGgPYQIhH

[JPER PlanningJournal @JPER7]

Is program-level learning outcome measurement improving #UrbanPlanning education—or adding burden? @HarvardGSD Prof. Ann Forsyth challenges the Planning Accreditation Board’s approach, urging the field to rethink how we assess student learning. @The_ACSP https://t.co/qhsbonATdN

[Ding Fei @DingFei18]

Looking forward to the talk!

[Tommy Tse @iamtommiii]

🌟Join our 1st #ASCA #GlobalAfrica seminar (onsite) event this year: “Building Futures, Shaping Resistance: Nairobi in Focus”!
Speakers: Elisa Tamburo (Harvard/Oxford) & Fairuzah Atchulo (UvA)
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 (3-4:30pm CET) @
Rm D1.18A, OMHP 4-6, 1012 CN Ams
#ERC @CAFPower_ERC

[Ding Fei @DingFei18]

Cornell's Department of City and Regional Planning is hiring an assistant professor with specialization in data-driven urban analytics and new digital technologies. Review starts on Nov. 30. Please help share widely. https://t.co/P7IRqr5IOZ