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The Australian National University

Andrew Kipnis, MA, PhD (North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, School of Culture, History & Language

Email: andrew.kipnis@anu.edu.au

Biographical statement

Andrew Kipnis head and shoulders I am currently working on two projects. The first is called "Regimes of Suzhi: Discipline, Governance and Social Reproduction in Contemporary China." In this project I examine education reform as a lens onto broad processes of governing and social and cultural change. The second project involves a comparative study of urban citizenship in different types of rapidly urbanizing areas in China. Finally, I have just completed a book on the implications for anthropological theory of issues that arise in the governing of socialist states.

Research interests

Anthropology of governing; postsocialism and postsocialist societies; anthropology of education; processes of subjectification; kinship and gender; language and culture; China; East Asia; USA.

Key publications

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