I am a PhD student in the Sociology Department at the University of Chicago and a researcher at the Arrighi Center for Global Studies at Johns Hopkins University. I am a historical sociologist with substantive interests in political economy, political sociology, environmental sociology, history of capitalism, and critical social theory. I am especially interested in the materialistic foundation of our social and political life.
My current research project focuses on the “energy regime” (broadly defined) in Manchuria under Japanese imperialism from 1934 to 1944. Via this case, I seek to allude to the role of infrastructure in state formation, and the energetic foundation of the systemic cycles of accumulation, in the turbulent time of the long 1930s.
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