Speaker: Manfred Elfstrom, Assistant Professor of Economics and Political Science, University of British Columbia

Moderator: Yao Lu, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University

This lecture uses a pair of original protest event datasets to compare popular mobilizations and their outcomes in two of the world’s centers for coal mining: North China and Appalachia.

Speaker's Bio: Manfred Elfstrom is an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Department of Economics, Philosophy, and Political Science at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. He is the author of Workers and Change in China: Resistance, Repression, Responsiveness (Cambridge University Press 2001), and his work has appeared in Comparative Politics, China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, and elsewhere. Before entering academia, Dr. Elfstrom worked in the non-profit world, supporting workers’ rights and improved grassroots governance in China.