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Tim Oakes

@ts_oakes

cultural geographer @CUBoulder, 贵州通

 Lyons, CO
Joined April 2020
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Only took 4 years, but our SI "On the Blockade" is finally complete! Our introduction "Beyond the Chokepoint: Blockades as Social Struggles" begins from a dissatisfaction w/ the fetishization of chokepoints as de facto progressive disruptions to the contemporary capitalist order
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The complete Roadsides collection no. 009 Gendering Infrastructure is available for download in high and low resolution: roadsides.net/collection-no-…
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#NowAvailable | Xiaoling Chen and @ts_oakes (@CUBoulder) argue that the Chinese contact-tracing tool Time-Space Companion was used to discipline citizens and shift public health responsibilities onto them through regulation, discipline, & criminalization. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Time-Space Companions: Digital Surveillance, Social Management, and Abuse of Power During the...

Time-Space Companions: Digital Surveillance, Social Management, and Abuse of Power During the...

Based on ethnographic research carried out during the 2022 Covid-19 surge in southern China, this paper examines the roll-out of a contact-tracing tool called the Time-Space Companion project. The ...

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📢 JOB ALERT A RF position is available for a grant project looking at #urban cities, #urbandevelopment and #urbanfutures in #SEAsia. 🏗️ Come join a supportive and vibrant research team at @nus_ari! Apply before 15 May. For more details, please visit: buff.ly/3mi4zKl
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New article: Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan have totally different histories and governance, Yet, they are imagined as one through the phrase 港澳台, which simulates a regional formation to serve a strategy of irredentism. 1/10 tandfonline.com/eprint/3PVUS…
Simulating territory: the rise and demise of Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan as an imaginary regional...

Simulating territory: the rise and demise of Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan as an imaginary regional...

The leadership of the People’s Republic of China has crafted several creative territorialization strategies designed to consolidate the administrative control and extend the geopolitical influence ...

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China slashing foreign subscriber access to key research database asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Int… via @NikkeiAsia
China slashing foreign subscriber access to key research database

China slashing foreign subscriber access to key research database

China National Knowledge Infrastructure is critical tool for scholars studying country

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Chen Xiaoling and I wrote about 时空伴随者 and data driven surveillance in China. Free downloads here: tandfonline.com/eprint/2MREE…
Time-Space Companions: Digital Surveillance, Social Management, and Abuse of Power During the...

Time-Space Companions: Digital Surveillance, Social Management, and Abuse of Power During the...

Based on ethnographic research carried out during the 2022 Covid-19 surge in southern China, this paper examines the roll-out of a contact-tracing tool called the Time-Space Companion project. The ...

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“the TSC project was not particularly useful for contact tracing. This did not stop it from emerging as part of a broader apparatus of health-screening applications that were understood by state actors to have almost irresistible potential for disciplining and social control.”
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My book, 'One China, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism', featured in this week's @politico China Watcher One Book, Three Questions section. @CornellPress
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This week's @politico China Watcher: Beijing's Iran-Saudi detente! House Indo-Pacific Subcommittee heads speak! @SenJeffMerkley & @SenMarcoRubio take on transnational repression! Your China-speak dictionary! How Chinese tourism to Taiwan worsened ties! politico.com/newsletters/pol…
Beijing takes Iran-Saudi deal victory lap

Beijing takes Iran-Saudi deal victory lap

China’s role in brokering a hostility-reduction agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia last week is allowing Beijing to cast paramount leader XI JINPING’s signature Global Security Initiative from...

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Looking forward to giving this presentation at the Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Gunung Djati’s Faculty of Social and Political Science on my approach to studying the Jakarta Bandung High-Speed Railway from an infrastructure studies and techno-political approach
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New on the blog! Guanie Lim and Hong Liu discuss the lessons learned over the past ten years from the BRI in Southeast Asia. Check it out 👉 shorturl.at/qADOR
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The Silk Road has become one of the key geo-political concepts today but what lies behind its revival and its march towards global fame? Join @winter_tim here at ARI as he talks about the Silk Road's biography and its contestions today. More at: buff.ly/3IJIA60
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I went to the world's epicentre of nickel production - a key component of EV batteries - for @WIRED. The dirty truth behind this green energy transition is that workers are dying, locals are starving and an Indonesian island's ecosystem is vanishing. wired.com/story/workers-are-…
Workers Are Dying in the EV Industry’s ‘Tainted’ City

Workers Are Dying in the EV Industry’s ‘Tainted’ City

In Indonesia, sickness and pollution plague a sprawling factory complex that supplies the world with crucial battery materials.

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We are excited to announce our next Global Asias Cyber Chat! Gendering Social Movements across Global Asia and Asian America is hosted by @CUBoulderCHA and the CU Center for Asian Studies in partnership with the GAI. Register at bit.ly/3KnVd9A @Drjenho
Poster advertising the event. Includes event information, registration and info links, and presenter photos and topics. Complete event info is available as body HTML text at https://www.colorado.edu/cha/globalasiascyberchat-socialmovements

ALT Poster advertising the event. Includes event information, registration and info links, and presenter photos and topics. Complete event info is available as body HTML text at https://www.colorado.edu/cha/globalasiascyberchat-socialmovements

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Recording of the first EXALT Dialogues ‘Insurrection in #Energy Research: #Pluriversal Encounters with #Energy Transition & #Renewability' is out! Share widely! Great contributions by Zoi Christina Siamanta, Larry Lohmann, Carlos Tornel & @DrX_ADunlap youtube.com/watch?v=_YaMtf_R…
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Call for papers for Roadsides Collection no. 010 on Urban Bioinfrastructures, edited by Raúl Acosta @raulaco and Lukas Ley @Granularlukas roadsides.net/call-for-paper…
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Call for participation! We are inviting abstracts for an international conference on "Conceptualizing the 'Belt and Road Initiative' and its Effects" to be held May 19-22, 2023 at Nazarbayev University. More info below and here 👉 shorturl.at/lnpU8
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