Nathanson Guest Lecture: ‘Phantom Services: Deflecting Migrant Workers in China’ by Kevin O’Brien, UC Berkeley

Kevin O’Brien is the Bedford Professor of Political Science and director of the Institute of East Asian Studies at UC Berkeley. A student of contemporary Chinese politics, he has written on legislative politics, local elections, fieldwork strategies, popular protest, policy implementation, protest policing and political reform. His most recent work centres on the Chinese state and theories of popular contention, particularly concerning protest control and types of repression that are neither “soft” nor “hard.”
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