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Between a rock and a hard place: academic freedom in globalising Chinese universities (2022)
Journal Article
Pringle, T., & Woodman, S. (2022). Between a rock and a hard place: academic freedom in globalising Chinese universities. The International Journal of Human Rights, 26(10), 1783-1802. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2022.2074979

This article examines academic freedom in China amid the tensions within a marketised global political economy of knowledge production. Joining the global competition for hegemony in the ‘knowledge economy’, the Chinese authorities signalled an accep... Read More about Between a rock and a hard place: academic freedom in globalising Chinese universities.

Differentiating risks to academic freedom in the globalised university in China (2022)
Journal Article
Woodman, S., & Pringle, T. (2022). Differentiating risks to academic freedom in the globalised university in China. Philosophy and Social Criticism, 48(4), 642-651. https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537221092176

Academic freedom in China is unquestionably under threat from various quarters. Yet the assumption that only the logics of authoritarian Communist Party power shape the terrain in which scholars operate provides us with a limited perspective on these... Read More about Differentiating risks to academic freedom in the globalised university in China.

Shades of Authoritarianism and State-Labour Relations in China (2018)
Journal Article
Howell, J., & Pringle, T. (2019). Shades of Authoritarianism and State-Labour Relations in China. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 57(2), 223-246. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12436

Attempts to analyse authoritarianism in China tend towards a static focus on the state that is homogeneous across time. We argue for a more nuanced approach that captures the dynamism and contours of state–civil society relations, and state–labour re... Read More about Shades of Authoritarianism and State-Labour Relations in China.