- Date
- Thursday 20 Dec 2018, 16:00 - 18:00
- Type
- PhD defence
- Spoken Language
- English
- Room
- Aula B
- Location
- International Institute of Social Studies
On Thursday, 20 December, Yunan Xu will defend her PhD thesis entitled The political economy of industrial tree plantations in the era of global land rush: the case of Guangxi, China.
In her thesis she explores the dynamics of the industrial tree plant sector and its expansion in Southern China.
She shows that China is both a country of origin and a destination country of foreign land investments. Her study also reveals that villagers are not necessarily excluded by a massive crop boom in their area: indeed villagers exhibit diverse adaptive livelihood responses, are affected differently by it and thus express various political reactions.
She offers a more nuanced dichotomy than 'exclusion versus inclusion' in the crop boom and offers a more nuanced typology which includes passive inclusion, active inclusion, passive exclusion, and active exclusion.
Watch the defence live
Not able to make it to The Hague on 20 December? You can watch the public defence live via ISS livestream
Doctoral Committee
Chair
Promotors
Professor Max Spoor
Professor Jun Borras
Co-promotor
Members of the Full Doctoral Committee
Professor Ye Jingzhong, China Agricultural University, Beijing
Professor Annelies Zoomers, Utrecht University
Professor Jan Douwe van der Ploeg, Wageningen University and Research
Dr Georgina Gomez, ISS
Dr Julien-François Gerber, ISS
The doors will be closed after the start of the Public Defence, but will be briefly opened after the candidate’s introduction to allow latecomers to enter.
The ceremony will be followed by a reception in the Atrium of the ISS
Professors are invited to join the academic procession.