Xiao Han

Dr Xiao Han is associate professor at the School of Public Administration, Hohai Unviersity. Her research interests include assemblage thinking, critical hydropolitics, payment for ecosystem services and agrarian change. Xiao finished her PhD (in Geography) at the University of Melbourne on the goals, practices and consequences of Chinese overseas dam building, and was a full-time ARC research fellow at the University's Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies. She is now an honorary fellow at the University of Melbourne: https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/656990-xiao-han

Selective publications (*indicates corresponding authorship):

Han, X.*, & Rogers, S. 2022. Networking Shangnan's tea: socio-economic relations, commodities and agrarian change in rural China. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 191, 107234.

Sheng, J., Han, X.*, 2022. Practicing policy mobility of payment for ecosystem services through assemblage and performativity: Lessons from China's Xin'an River Basin Eco-compensation Pilot. Ecological Economics 191, 107234.

Webber, M., Han, X., Rogers, S., Wang, M., Jiang, H., Zhang, W.J., Barnett, J., Zhen, N.H., 2021. Inside-out: Chinese academic assessments of large-scale water infrastructure. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water 8.

Sheng, J.C., Webber, M., Han, X., 2021. Authoritarian neoliberalization of water governance: the case of China's South-North Water Transfer Project. Territory Politics Governance 9, 691-707

Rogers, S., Wilmsen, B., Han, X., Wang, Z.J.H., Duan, Y.F., He, J., Li, J., Lin, W.L., Wong, C.E., 2021. Scaling up agriculture? The dynamics of land transfer in inland China. World Development 146.

Han, X.*, Webber, M., 2020a. From Chinese dam building in Africa to the Belt and Road Initiative: Assembling infrastructure projects and their linkages. Political Geography 77.

Han, X.*, Webber, M., 2020b. Extending the China water machine: Constructing a dam export industry. Geoforum 112, 63-72.

Han, X.*, Webber, M., 2020c. Assembling dams in Ghana: A genealogical inquiry into the fluidity of hydropolitics. Political Geography 78.

Sheng, J.C., Qiu, W.G., Han, X.*, 2020. China's PES-like horizontal eco-compensation program: Combining market-oriented mechanisms and government interventions. Ecosystem Services 45.

Sheng, J.C., Webber, M., Han, X., 2018. Governmentality within China's South-North Water Transfer Project: tournaments, markets and water pollution. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning 20, 533-549.

Webber, M., Han, X., 2017. Corporations, Governments, and Socioenvironmental Policy in China: China's Water Machine as Assemblage. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 107, 1444-1460.

PhD in Geography (economic geography and resource management), University of Melbourne, 2018

MA in Public Administration, Hohai University, 2013

BE, Hohai Univeristy, 2010

Assistant Professor at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2020-2021

ARC Research Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Melbourne, 2018-2020