Staff profile
Dr Malgorzata Jakimow
Assistant Professor in East Asian Politics
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Assistant Professor in East Asian Politics in the School of Government and International Affairs | +44 (0) 191 33 47206 |
Biography
Gosia Jakimów is an assistant professor in East Asian Politics at School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University. She joined the SGIA department in 2018 after holding a lecturer post at University of Sheffield. She was awarded her PhD in 2015 from University of Manchester. Her PhD thesis concerned the question of citizenship, civil society and labour in China and was based on ethnographic fieldwork in China conducted among migrant worker NGOs, international NGOs as well as international organisations, such as UNDP and EU. Subsequently she has published several research papers and book chapters concerning labour NGOs, critical citizenship theory, transnational civil society, urban exclusion and political economy of labour in China. Her monograph China's Citizenship Challenge: Labour NGOs and the struggle for migrant rights was published in 2021 with Manchester University Press.
Since then she has focused her research on EU-China relations. She has published articles and book chapters concerning normative element of EU-China relations, the role of Belt and Road Initiative in the normative changes in Central-Eastern Europe and the role of populism in the shaping of European states' foreign policy towards China. Her most recent research project concerns the nexus between decarbonisation and security in EU-China relations, comparative studies of EU and China legislation related to green technologies, the politics of derisking and deglobalisation, as well as theorisation of the role of circular economy in global value chains.
Gosia Jakimów has been an Horizon-funded Visiting Fellow in 2014 at the School of Government, Peking University, China and a Polish Ministry of Education-funded Visiting Researcher in 2022 at University of Łódź, Poland. Since 2022 she has served as an official of the European Commission, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre, where she delivered a research project concerning mitigation of European import dependencies in the strategic value chains. Her experience of working closely with high-level policymakers as well as NGO sector combined with over 10 years academic experience gives her research and teaching a unique blend of policy-orientation and theoretical depth.
Dr Jakimów invites prospective PhD students to contact her if they wish to conduct research in one or more of the research interests’ areas listed below.
Research interests
- EU-China relations
- Chinese domestic politics
- Citizenship Studies:
- Citizenship, civil society and social movements in China;
- Internal migration in China;
- Critical theories of citizenship;
- Transnational civil society
- China’s Political Economy:
- Belt and Road Initiative,
- Labour relations,
- Political Economy of Development,
- China’s green transition
- International Political Economy:
- Circular Economy,
- Global Value Chains,
- EU’s Green Transition,
- Securitisation of Trade,
- Decarbonisation and Security nexus
- Normative Power and Norms-Diffusion in IR
- Populism in Foreign Policy
Publications
Authored book
Chapter in book
- Jakimów, M. (2024). Between Normative Influence and Securitization Dynamic: China’s Engagement in the Visegrád Group. In I. Roy, J. Eckhardt, D. Stroikos, & S. Davidescu (Eds.), Rising Power, Limited Influence: The Politics of Chinese Investments in Europe and the Liberal International Order (121-142). Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192887115.003.0007
- Jakimów, M. (2021). Migrant workers' citizenship positionality in contemporary China. In Z. Guo (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Citizenship. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003225843
- Jakimów, M., & Barabantseva, E. (2016). ‘Othering’ in the Construction of Chinese Citizenship. In L. König, & B. Chaudhuri (Eds.), Politics of the 'other' in India and China : western concepts in non-western contexts. Routledge
- Jakimów, M. (2015). Understanding Citizenship Beyond the Hukou System: the Role of Migrant Worker NGOs in Transformation of Citizenship in China. In Z. Guo, & S. Guo (Eds.), Theorizing Chinese citizenship (111-132). Lexington Books
Journal Article
- Jakimów, M., Samokhvalov, V., & Baldassarre, B. (in press). Achieving European Union strategic autonomy through circularity in critical materials value chains. International Affairs,
- Jakimów, M., Turcsanyi, R. Q., & Boni, F. (2024). Does Populism Matter in EU–China Relations? The Cases of Italy and Czechia. Journal of Common Market Studies, https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13621
- Arcipowska, A., Blanco, P. S., Jakimów, M., Baldassarre, B., Polverini, D., & Cabrera, M. (2024). Role of solar PV in net‐zero growth: An analysis of international manufacturers and policies. Progress in Photovoltaics, https://doi.org/10.1002/pip.3797
- Hayward, J., & Jakimów, M. (2022). Who Makes the City? Beijing’s Urban Villages as Sites of Ideological Contestation. positions: asia critique, 30(3), 455-477. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-9723672
- Jakimów, M. (2022). Activist citizenship in non-Western and non-democratic contexts: how to define ‘acts of citizenship’. Citizenship Studies, 26(4-5), 505-511. https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2091232
- Jakimów, M. (2019). Desecuritisation as a Soft Power Strategy: the Belt and Road Initiative, European Fragmentation and China’s Normative Influence in Central-Eastern Europe. Asia Europe Journal: Studies on Common Policy Challenges, 17(4), 369-385. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10308-019-00561-3
- Jakimów, M. (2017). Resistance through Accommodation: A Citizenship Approach to Migrant Worker NGOs in China. Journal of Contemporary China, 26(108), 915-930. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2017.1337316
- Jakimów, M. (2012). Chinese citizenship ‘after orientalism’: academic narratives on internal migrants in China. Citizenship Studies, 16(5-6), 657-671. https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2012.698488
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